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Lieutenant-General Sir John Fryer, KCB, (1838-28 January 1917) was a British Army 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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