page_title: Frank William Ramsay
section_title: Military career
hierarchical_section_title: Frank William Ramsay / Military career
caption_attribution_description: English: The Battle of Messines, June 1917 Brigadier-General F. W. Ramsay, the Commander of the 48th Brigade, 16th Irish Division, on horseback. 11 June 1917.
context_page_description: Major-General Frank William Ramsay CB CMG DSO was a senior British Army officer in the First World War.
context_section_description: Ramsay transferred from the militia into the Middlesex Regiment on 15 May 1897.
  He served with the Mounted infantry before the First World War. In the war, he served as commander of 48th Brigade and participated in the Battle of Messines in 1917. He went on to be General Officer Commanding 58th (2/1st London) Division in June 1918.
  In 1925 he took command over a Brigade of the Quetta Division until he retired in 1929. Later he lived in Holbrook Hall, Sudbury.
  Ramsey was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) in 1916 and appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1917 and Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1919.
caption: Ramsay on horseback in 1917
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