Allegiance Canada Battles and wars World War I Battles/wars First World War Service/branch Canadian Army | Name Frederick Warren Died 1937, Montreal, Canada | |
Awards Order of the Bath, Order of St Michael and St George, Distinguished Service Order | ||
Commands held 3rd Canadian Division | ||
Sir Frederick Oscar Warren Loomis (February 1, 1870 – February 15, 1937) was a Canadian soldier who fought in the First World War.
He enlisted as a private in the Canadian Militia in 1886 and served there until retiring in 1919. During the war, he was given command of the Royal Highlanders of Canada and later led the 3rd Canadian Division during the last two months of the First World War as a major-general.
He is portrayed in a painting in the Canadian Senate Chamber leading the Royal Highlanders of Canada (Canadian Expeditionary Force) into Saint-Nazaire in 1915.
Mount Loomis on the Alberta/British Columbia border is named after him.
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