Frank Caldwell

Major-General Frank Griffiths Caldwell OBE MC (born 1921) is a former British Army officer who became Assistant Chief of the General Staff.

Military career
After attending the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Caldwell was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1940 during World War II. He served in the Middle East, where he was awarded the Military Cross in May 1941 and a bar to it in December 1941, and in North West Europe. He also served in Malaya during the Malayan Emergency in the rank of major. He appointed Director of Defence Operational Plans at the Ministry of Defence in 1970 and Assistant Chief of the General Staff (Operational Requirements) in 1972 before retiring in 1974.

Family
He married Betty Palmer Buesden; they have a daughter and a son.