Frank Simpson

General Sir Frank Ernest Wallace Simpson, (21 March 1899 – 28 July 1986) was a senior British Army officer during the 1940s.

Military career Born on 21 March 1899, Simpson was educated at Bishop Cotton Boys' School, Bedford School, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in May 1916. He served in the First World War in France and Belgium in 1918 and then after the war went to Afghanistan and the North West Frontier of India and attended the Staff College, Camberley from 1931 to 1932.

In 1948 Simpson was appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Command and in 1952 he became Commandant of the Imperial Defence College: he retired in 1954.

Retirement In retirement Simpson became an advisor to the West Africa Committee, a body formed to promote British business interests in West Africa. He was a deputy lieutenant for Essex from 1956 and was Governor of the Royal Hospital Chelsea from 1961 to 1969. He was also a member of the Bath and County Club and wrote the Foreword to its history, published in 1983.