Frank Sutton (mercenary)

See also: Sutton

More known under the nickname of Major-general Frank " One-Arm" Sutton , this former officer British of the First World War was one of the outstanding figures of the mercenariat of the Entre-deux-guerres.

It is during the combat of Gallipoli that it was made a reputation of combatant. Thus, whereas officer of the Génie it fought in the rows of the Gurkhas, it lost its right-hand man while trying to return a Turkish grenade; and though seriously wounded it in égorgea not less, using a Kukri a Turkish soldier who tried to complete it. Action for which it accepted Military Cross. It finished the war in a research service and in 1921 after being itself made gold digger in Siberia in 1919, it settled in China.

Large specialist in the armament, it sought to sell modified versions of a mortar of sliced his design and was engaged by the general Yang SEN, of which it reorganized the arsenal, before being recruited by the " Maréchal" old man; Zhang Zuolin which offered to him the direction of its arsenal of Moukden, in Mandchourie. Having known to attract the confidence of the Manchu Lord of the war, he saw himself implying in several missions of espionage and information. Having concluded these secret operations, it accepted a command on the ground and, after having succeeded in crossing, with the head of its troops, the great wall of China during a delicate operation, it was named Major-general. It is in 1927 that it left the service of the " Maréchal" old man;.

It did not continue of them less its research on armament and, in 1932, it built the " Sutton Skunk" (Sutton the bastard): an armored vehicle designed starting from the frame of an artillery tractor, acquired in a surplus of the army. It turned over in China in order to sell its invention to with it, but, having failed into its commercial projects, it is reconverted into the report of war and worked as journalist of the press group Hearst. It covered the Sino-Japanese combat and had some problems, mainly in Korea, with the members of the Kempei Tai, the secret service of the Japanese army. Installed with HongKong, it there was made prisoner in December 1941, during the fall of the city vis-a-vis the Japanese troops and died in a Japanese concentration camp in 1944.

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