Lionel Frank Page
Major-General Lionel Frank Page, CB, DSO & Two Bars (December 17, 1884 – April 26, 1944) was a Canadian Army officer who served in both world wars.
Page was born in Yorkshire and was educated at Berkhamsted School. After failing the entrance examinations for the Sandhurst, he came to Canada in 1903 to work on Berkhamsted Farm in Red Deer, Alberta, which trained Berkhamsted graduates to homestead on the Prairies. After a year, he acquired land in Red Deer and became a rancher, selling his ranch in 1912 to enter business.
During World War II he served as the first General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 4th Canadian Infantry Division, a post he held from June 1941 until December that year. At the time of his death in April 1944, which was caused by a sudden illness while still in Canada, he was General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Atlantic Command.
His daughter was the artist P. K. Page.
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