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Brigadier Frederick Manus De Butts CMG OBE DL (1916-2005) was an officer in the British army.

Early life He was the only child of Brigadier Frederick Cromie De Butts CB DSO MC and Kathleen O'Donnell.

Military service After Oxford university he joined the Cornwall and Somerset light infantry in 1937 as a second Lieutenant. In 1939 he was posted to Egypt and worked in intelligence during the campaigns in the north African desert where he was awarded the MBE. In 1943 as a brigade Major he took part in the Sicilian campaign.

In 1948 he lead the last march of British troops out of India as the Cornwall and Somerset light infantry marched out through the gateway of India in Mumbai. He was later posted to Malaysia, Aden and Cyprus. In the later part of his career he was almost exclusively posted in the middle east. He commanded an Arab battalion in Aden and the Trucial Oman Scouts in the Persian Gulf in the 1960s,and was involved in deposing of sheikh Shakhbut with sheikh Zayed in 1966 in Abu Dhabi. He was then the Military attache in Cairo. After retiring in 1971 he was employed at the request of the British foreign Office by the Trucial states rulers to be Chief of Staff, Ministry of Defence of the United Arab Emirates and assisted with the British withdrawal from the United Arab Emirates.

In retirement he was the Hertfordshire county commissioner of the scouts, Deputy Lieutenant of Hertfordshire, Honorary Director of the Hertfordshire Conservation Society and head governor of Abbots Hill school

Personal life He married Evelyn Cecilia Halsey, daughter of Sir Walter Halsey in 1944. They had 2 children. He is the great great grandson of General Sir Augustus De Butts KCH

References https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/brigadier-freddie-de-butts-xmqh5nvfn2r Burke's Landed Gentry of Ireland (1958). p. 223. Dodd, Charles R. (1846). The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland, including all the titled classes http://www.britisharmedforces.org/pages/nat_freddie_butts.htm