Major General Sir Frederic Manley Glubb KCMG CB DSO (19 August 1857 – 31 July 1938) was a British Army officer, who was a senior figure in the Royal Engineers during the First World War.
He was promoted to captain in 1888, and married Frances Bagot, daughter of an Irish rural landowner, the following year .
[1][2] After the war, Glubb was promoted to lieutenant-colonel on 16 April 1903, and appointed Commanding Royal Engineer at Mauritius.
On the outbreak of war, he was given a posting in the newly mobilised British Expeditionary Force, as the Commander Royal Engineers (CRE) of III Corps; this made him the senior engineering officer in the Corps, responsible for the defences and support of two infantry divisions.
He remained in this post for the remainder of the war, being mentioned in despatches eight times and awarded a knighthood.