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Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Sadleir Brereton, CBE (5 August 1872 – 12 August 1957) who often wrote under the name Captain Brereton, was a British Army medical officer and an author of children's books on heroic deeds conducted in the name of the British Empire.

Early career

Brereton was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) as a surgeon-lieutenant on 29 January 1896, and was promoted to captain on 29 January 1899. During the Second Boer War he was attached as a medical officer to the Scots Guards. He retired his commission on 22 November 1902, after the end of the war in South Africa.

First World War

Brereton served again in the RAMC during the First World War with the rank of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel. In 1919 he was appointed as a Commander of the Portuguese Order of Aviz and a CBE.

Personal life

Brereton married Ethel Lamb in 1898 and Isobel Murdoch in 1953.

Bibliography

References

1. Paris, Michael (2004). "Over The Top: The Great War and Juvenile Literature in Britain". Praeger. p. 39.
2. Hart′s Army list, 1902
3. "No. 27497". The London Gazette. 21 November 1902. p. 7537.
4. "Lt.-Col. Frederick Sadleir Brereton".

External links

• Works by Frederick Sadleir Brereton at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Frederick Sadleir Brereton at Faded Page (Canada)
• Works by or about Frederick Sadleir Brereton at the Internet Archive
• The Dacorum Heritage Trust article on F. S. Brereton.
• Who's who 2016 & Who was who article on F. S. Brereton.

• 1872 births
• 1957 deaths
• 19th-century British writers
• 20th-century British writers
• 20th-century English medical doctors
• British Army personnel of World War I
• British military personnel of the Second Boer War
• Commanders of the Order of Aviz
• Royal Army Medical Corps officers