Frederick E. Morgan

LieutenantGeneral Sir Frederick Edgworth Morgan KCB was a senior officer of the British Army who fought in both world wars. He is best known as the chief of staff to the Supreme Allied Commander , the original planner of Operation Overlord.

Morgan was born in Paddock Wood, Kent onFebruary 1894, the eldest son among nine children of Frederick Beverley Morgan, a timber importer, and his wife Clare Elizabeth ne Horrocks. He was raised at Mascalls Manor. Paddock Wood. He commenced his education at Hurstleigh, a private school in Tunbridge Wells in 1902. At an early age it was decided that Frederick would become a British Army officer, and in 1907 he entered Clifton College, a school noted for its connections with the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. At Clifton he played rugby and cricket, and served in the School Cadet Corps, which became the Officers Training Corps in 1908. As a cadet sergeant, he was one of many who lined the route to Buckingham Palace for the Coronation of George V of the United Kingdom in 1911. He eventually rose to the rank of second lieutenant. Morgan duly passed the entrance examination for Woolwich, which he entered in 1912.

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