    major general john dutton (johnny) frost cb, dso & bar, mc, dl (31 december 1912 â 21 may 1993) was a british airborne officer best known for being the leader of the small group of airborne forces that actually arrived at arnhem bridge during the battle of arnhem in operation market garden. he was one of the first to join the newly formed parachute regiment and served with distinction in many wartime airborne operations until he was injured and captured at arnhem. his army career continued until his retirement in 1968. ==history== === early life === frost was the son of frank dutton frost cbe mc, a british army officer, and his wife, elsie dora (nÃ©e bright). he was educated at monkton combe school in somerset, john frost joined the british army on 1 september 1932, when on graduation from the royal military college, sandhurst, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the cameronians (scottish rifles). from 1938 to 1941 frost worked with the iraq levies as a captain. he joined the parachute regiment in 1941. ===service in the second world war=== *operation biting frost distinguished himself in operation biting, a raid to dismantle and steal the radar dish or components of the german wÃ¼rzburg radar at bruneval. the raid was the second time the fledgling british parachute regiment was called on. c company under the then major fro
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