Lieutenant-General Frederick Arthur Montague Browning, GCVO, KBE, CB, DSO {"Boy" Browning} – March 14th 1965

Lieutenant General ‘Boy’ Browning is regarded as the ‘father’ of airborne Forces.

His military career began in the First World War during which he met Winston Churchill, who was subsequently to appoint him to Command the 1st Airborne Division in October 1941, during the Second World War. He held this position throughout the North African campaign.

In 1943 he was promoted Lieutenant General and became Commander of Airborne Troops and Commander of the 1st Airborne Corps in 1944. As such he landed near Nijmegen with his tactical headquarters during Operation MARKET-GARDEN in September 1944.

He subsequently became Chief of Staff to Lord Mountbatten in South East Asia Command, where he remained to the end of the war. He was awarded a knighthood in 1946, finishing his Army career as Military Secretary of the War Office in 1948. He later became Comptroller of the Royal Household.