Brigadier-General Frederick Arthur Bashford Fryer DL JP (13 August 1871 – 23 September 1943 ) was a British Army cavalry officer in the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons.

[1] He graduated from the Royal Military College Sandhurst and became a second-lieutenant in the 6th (Inniskillng) Dragoons in October 1890.

[8] He remained on the half pay list until January 1913, when he was promoted and given command of a yeomanry formation, of the Territorial Force, the South Wales Mounted Brigade.

Fryer survived that conflict and then moved to Egypt, as commander of the 22nd Mounted Brigade and fought in the Sinai and Palestine campaign.

[10] Following the war Brigadier-General Fryer settled at Shroton House, Iwerne Courtney, Blandford Forum in Dorset.