Frederick Browning

Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Arthur Montague Boy Browning, GCVO, KBE, CB, DSO was a senior officer of the British Army who has been called the father of the British airborne forces. He was the commander of I Airborne Corps and deputy commander of First Allied Airborne Army during Operation Market Garden in September 1944. During the planning for this operation he memorably said I think we might be going a bridge too far. He was also an Olympic bobsleigh competitor, and the husband of author Dame Daphne du Maurier.

Frederick Arthur Montague Browning was born onDecember 1896 at his family home in Kensington, London. The house was later demolished to make way for an expansion of Harrods, allowing him to claim in later life that he had been born in its piano department. He was the first son of Frederick Henry Browning, a wine merchant, and his wife Nancy . He had one sibling, his older sister Helen Grace. From an early age he was known to his family as Tommy. He was educated at West Downs School and Eton College, which his grandfather had attended. While at Eton, he joined the Officer Training Corps.

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