John Fryer (British Army officer)
- John Fryer (British Army officer)
officer.
After studying at Exeter College, Oxford. he entered the Army in 1860 as a cornet in The Carabiniers. He rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the regiment, and commanded it from 1877 to 1882. His period of command included the regiment's operations in Afghanistan during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. He was made a Knight Commander of the Bath in 1903.
References
*Obituary: p. 154, "The Annual Register: a review of public events at home and abroad, for the year 1917". London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1918.
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