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- Frederick_Browning abstract "Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Arthur Montague \"Boy\" Browning, GCVO, KBE, CB, DSO (20 December 1896 – 14 March 1965) was a senior officer of the British Army who has been called the \"father of the British airborne forces\". He was the commander of I Airborne Corps and deputy commander of First Allied Airborne Army during Operation Market Garden in September 1944. During the planning for this operation he memorably said: \"I think we might be going a bridge too far.\" He was also an Olympic bobsleigh competitor, and the husband of author Daphne du Maurier.Educated at Eton College and then at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Browning was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Grenadier Guards in 1915. During the First World War he fought on the Western Front, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for conspicuous gallantry during the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917. In September 1918, he became aide de camp to General Sir Henry Rawlinson. After the war, he competed in the bobsleigh at the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland, in which his team finished tenth. He married Daphne du Maurier in July 1932.During the Second World War, Browning commanded the 1st Airborne Division and I Airborne Corps. He led the latter during Operation Market Garden, travelling by glider to participate in the assault. In December 1944 he became Chief of Staff of Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten's South East Asia Command. From September 1946 to January 1948, he was Military Secretary of the War Office.In January 1948, Browning became Comptroller and Treasurer to Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh. After she ascended to the throne to become Queen Elizabeth II in 1952, he became treasurer in the Office of the Duke of Edinburgh. He suffered a severe nervous breakdown in 1957 and retired in 1959. He died at Menabilly, the mansion that inspired his wife's novel Rebecca, on 14 March 1965.".
- Frederick_Browning allegiance "United Kingdom".
- Frederick_Browning award Croix_de_guerre_1914–1918_(France).
- Frederick_Browning award Distinguished_Service_Order.
- Frederick_Browning award Legion_of_Merit.
- Frederick_Browning award Mentioned_in_dispatches.
- Frederick_Browning award Order_of_Polonia_Restituta.
- Frederick_Browning award Order_of_the_Bath.
- Frederick_Browning award Order_of_the_British_Empire.
- Frederick_Browning award Royal_Victorian_Order.
- Frederick_Browning battle Battle_of_Cambrai_(1917).
- Frederick_Browning battle Battle_of_Passchendaele.
- Frederick_Browning battle Burma_Campaign_1944–45.
- Frederick_Browning battle Hundred_Days_Offensive.
- Frederick_Browning battle North_African_Campaign.
- Frederick_Browning battle Operation_Market_Garden.
- Frederick_Browning battle Spring_Offensive.
- Frederick_Browning battle World_War_I.
- Frederick_Browning battle World_War_II.
- Frederick_Browning militaryBranch British_Army.
- Frederick_Browning militaryCommand "128th Infantry Brigade".
- Frederick_Browning militaryCommand "1st Airborne Division".
- Frederick_Browning militaryCommand "24th Guards Brigade Group".
- Frederick_Browning militaryCommand "2nd Battalion,Grenadier Guards".
- Frederick_Browning militaryCommand "First Allied Airborne Army".
- Frederick_Browning militaryCommand "I Airborne Corps".
- Frederick_Browning militaryUnit Grenadier_Guards.
- Frederick_Browning occupation Royal_Households_of_the_United_Kingdom.
- Frederick_Browning relation Montague_Browning.
- Frederick_Browning serviceNumber "22588".
- Frederick_Browning serviceStartYear "1915".
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