“Francis Arthur Sutton”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

A product of Eton College, Sutton studied two years of engineering at University of London before working in civil engineering in Argentina, Mexico, and the US after 1906.

Sutton held a commission in the Royal Engineers^[3] during World War I. Following the war he built railways in Mexico and Argentina and also mined for gold in Siberia and Korea.

Sutton travelled to China where he had purchased manufacturing rights for the Stokes Mortar that he provided to various warlords.^[4] He became a major general for the Chinese warlord Zhang Zuolin.

During World War II he was interned in Hong Kong [https://web.archive.org/web/20090205163803/http://thejadedtraveller.com/Harbin.html] where he died of dysentery.^[5]^[6]^[7]

Notes

1. ^{{London Gazette |issue=29240|page=7283 |date=23 July 1915|supp=y}}
2. ^{{cite news|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/37840905|title=One-Arm Sutton.|work= Western Mail|date=7 Sep 1933|page=12|via=Trove}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1927/mar/08/war-pension-lieut-f-a-sutton|title=WAR PENSION (LIEUT. F. A. SUTTON). (Hansard, 8 March 1927)|author=|date=|website=hansard.millbanksystems.com}}
4. ^Jowett, Philip China's Wars: Rousing the Dragon 1894–1949 Osprey Publishing, 20 Nov 2013, p. 130
5. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/francis-arthur-sutton/|title=Francis Arthur Sutton|first=Brian L.|last=Evans|date=|website=thecanadianencyclopedia.ca}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Weekend/GB19Jp03.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050305201201/http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Weekend/GB19Jp03.html|title=Man with a past|author=Graham Lees|date=February 19–20, 2005|archivedate=5 March 2005|publisher=Weekend Standard|accessdate=12 February 2018}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/3169608|title=Casualty|author=|date=|website=www.cwgc.org}}

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