Frank Messervy
British Army General (1893-1974) · United Kingdom · Died at 80
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Something wrong?General Sir Frank Walter Messervy, was a British military officer who served as the first commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Army from August 1947 to February 1948.
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Messervy, unshaved, giving orders south-west of Gazala.![Lieutenant-General Frank Messervy, GOC IV Corps in Burma, talks to a sepoy from the 17th Indian Infantry Division, December 1944.[b]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Major_General_Sir_Frank_Messervy_inspecting_Indian_Army_troops_in_Burma%2C_1944_%28c%29.jpg/500px-Major_General_Sir_Frank_Messervy_inspecting_Indian_Army_troops_in_Burma%2C_1944_%28c%29.jpg)
Lieutenant-General Frank Messervy, GOC IV Corps in Burma, talks to a sepoy from the 17th Indian Infantry Division, December 1944.[b]
Lieutenant-General Sir Frank Messervy receives the sword of General Seishirō Itagaki, commander of the Japanese Seventh Area Army, at a formal ceremony of surrender held in the grounds of HQ Malaya Command, Kuala Lumpur, 22 February 1946.
Fighting in Kashmir at the time of Messervy's retirementAwards
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General Sir Frank Walter Messervy, was a British military officer who served as the first commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Army from August 1947 to February 1948. Prior to Pakistan's independence, he served in the British Indian Army in the First and Second World Wars, and as the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Northern Command of British India in 1946 and 1947.
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