Francis Yeats-Brown
Officer in the British Indian army (1886–1944) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Major Francis Charles Claydon Yeats-Brown, DFC (15 August 1886 – 19 December 1944) was an officer in the British Indian army and the author of the memoir The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, for which he was awarded the 1930 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.[citation needed]
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Birth name | Francis Charles Claydon Yeats-Brown |
Born | (1886-08-15)August 15, 1886 Genoa, Kingdom of Italy |
Died | December 19, 1944(1944-12-19) (aged 58) England |
Allegiance | United Kingdom British Fascism |
Service/ | British Army Royal Air Force |
Unit | King's Royal Rifle Corps Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force |
Awards | DFC |
Alma mater | Harrow School Royal Military College, Sandhurst |
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His admiration and advocacy of Italian fascism cost him his role as editor of the Everyman paper in 1933.