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Frederick Drummond Vincent Wing was born 29 November 1860 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom to Vincent Wing (1824-1874) and Gertrude Elizabeth Fletcher-Vane (1831-1895) and died 2 October 1915 Battle of Loos of unspecified causes. He married Mary FitzClarence (1877-1939) 5 October 1905 in St George Hanover Square, Greater London, England, United Kingdom.

Major-General Frederick Drummond Vincent Wing, CB (29 November 1860 – 2 October 1915) was a senior officer of the British Army during the First World War and was one of three British divisional commanders killed in action in the space of a week in the aftermath of the Battle of Loos. Wing had served in the army for over thirty years at the time of his death, having been commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1880. He had served with distinction in the Second Boer War and been an aide de camp to Lord Roberts in 1903.


Children


Offspring of Frederick Drummond Vincent Wing and Mary FitzClarence (1877-1939)
Name Birth Death Joined with
Gertrude Iris Wing (1906-1983)








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