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George Arthur French was born at Roscommon..

Timeline ; birth United Kingdom Source:7428321 ; service British Army Private ; death Source:7428321 26th September 1916 ; burial Thiepval Memorial CWGC Cemetery/.

  • Timeline ; birth United Kingdom Source:7428321 ; service British Army Private ; death Source:7428321 26th September 1916 ; burial Thiepval Memorial CWGC Cemetery/.
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  • George Arthur French was born at Roscommon.
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  • His son Francis Arthur John French was the Lord De Freyne until his death in 2009.

    • George Arthur French

    British Army general (1841–1921)

    Major GeneralSir George Arthur French, KCMG (19 June 1841 – 7 July 1921) was an Irish soldier who served as an officer in the British Army, as the first Commissioner of the North-West Mounted Police, from October 1873 to July 1876, and as Commandant of the colonial military forces in Queensland (1883–91) and New South Wales (1896–1902)

    George Arthur French was born at Roscommon, Ireland.

    He was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and commissioned in the Royal Artillery in 1860.

    In 1871, at the request of the Canadian government, he was sent to Canada as a military inspector, eventually becoming head of the School of Gunnery at Kingston, Ontario.

    French was appointed to organise the North-West Mounted Police on its creation in 1873, and the next year he led the force on its famous March West to suppress the illegal whiskey trade in the wake of the Cypress Hills M