{{Short description|British army officer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox military person |honorific_prefix = [[Lieutenant general (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-General]] |name=Frederick Green Wilkinson |honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CB}} |birth_date=15 November 1825 |death_date=1913 |birth_place= |death_place= |burial_place= |image= |caption= |nickname= |allegiance={{flag|United Kingdom}} |service_years= |rank= [[Lieutenant-General (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-General]] |branch={{army|United Kingdom}} |commands= |unit= |battles= [[Crimean War]] |awards= }} [[Lieutenant-General (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant-General]] '''Frederick Green Wilkinson''' (15 November 1825 – 1913) was a [[British Army]] officer who became colonel of the [[Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)]].
==Military career== Wilkinson was commissioned as an [[Ensign (rank)|ensign]] in the [[43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot]] on 27 December 1842.<ref name=bio>{{cite web|url=http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/colonels/031.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308044115/http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/colonels/031.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 March 2017|title=Lieutenant General Frederick Green Wilkinson 1891-1893 (Archived)|publisher=Queen’s Royal Surreys|accessdate=6 January 2020}}</ref> Promoted to [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in the [[42nd Regiment of Foot]] on 17 October 1851, he was present at the [[Battle of Alma]] in September 1854 and the [[Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55)|Siege of Sevastopol]] in Winter 1854 during the [[Crimean War]].<ref name=bio/> He also served at the [[Siege of Lucknow]] in Summer 1857 during the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857|Indian Rebellion]].<ref name=bio/>
He became colonel of the [[Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)]] on 15 October 1891<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26224|page=5987|date=17 November 1891}}</ref> and transferred in 1893 to be colonel of the [[Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry]] until his death in 1913.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/043OBLI.htm|title=The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry|publisher=regiments.org|accessdate=7 March 2017|url-status=bot: unknown|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051223143257/http://regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/043OBLI.htm|archivedate=23 December 2005}}</ref>
Green Wilkinson was chairman of the National Association for Employment of Reserve Officers.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=22 November 1902 |page=13 |issue=36932}}</ref>
==Family== His elder son was Brigadier-General Lewis Frederic Green-Wilkinson (1865-1950).<ref>Burke's Peerage, 1999, volume 1, page 130.</ref><ref>KELLY'S HANDBOOK of Distinguished People 1938.</ref>
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{{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{succession box | title=Colonel of the [[Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)]] | before=[[Robert Bruce (British Army officer, born 1821)|Robert Bruce]] | after=[[Edward Selby Smyth|Sir Edward Smyth]] | years=1891–1893}} |- {{succession box | title=Colonel of the [[Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry]] | before=John Leslie Dennis | after=Fiennes Middleton Colvile | years=1893–1913}} {{s-end}}
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