| Carrington | Frederick | | Major General | Of Perrott's Brook, Cirencester, and of the Naval and Military Club, was born at Cheltenham, Aug 23, 1844, and is son of Edmund Carrington, JP, of that town. Sir Frederick was educated at Cheltenham, and passed into the Army at the age of nineteen, and has seen very considerable service in SA ever since 1875, when he organised and commanded the Mounted Infantry in the Griqualand West Expedition. In 1877 he raised and commanded the FLH in the Kaffir War, fighting in the battle of Quintana and in the later operations in the Transkei and the Peri Bush (despatches). He also commanded the Transvaal Volunteer forces against Sekukuni in 1878-9 (despatches, medal with clasp, brevs. of Major and Lt. Colonel, CMG). During the siege of Mafeteng by the Basutos he was in command of the CMR, and later, in the Basuto War, he had command of the Colonial forces, and was severely wounded. Sir Frederick commanded the 2nd Mounted Rifles in 1884-5, and was commandant of Native Levies in Zululand in 1888. He then commanded the BBP until 1893, when he was appointed Military-Adviser to the High Commissioner during the first Matabele War. He commanded the Infantry Brigade at Gibraltar from May, 1895, until March, 1899, with a brief interval in 1896, when he commanded the troops in the Matabele Rebellion of 1896. With the local rank of Lieutenant General, Sir Frederick commanded the Rhodesian Field Force in the Boer War, Feb, 1900, to April, 1901, taking part in the operations in Rhodesia, Western Transvaal, including the actions at Elands River, the Cape Colony, and the North of the ORC General Carrington married, November 18, 1897, Miss Susan Margaret Elwes. | Staff |
