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There doesn't seem to be a FWR Landon, but there was a FWB Landon, and I think this is his picture. "Major-General Frederick William Bainbridge Landon, C.B., of The Cedars. Farnborough Park, co. Hants ; born at Ledsham on Monday, 27 February 1860, bapt. there ; educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford, and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst ; 2nd Lieutenant 76th Foot 13 August 1879, Lieutenant West Riding Regiment 1880, Captain 1885, transferred to Army Service Corps 1888, Major 1894, Lieut.-Colonel 1900, Colonel 1 July 1905, Brigadier- General 1909, Major-General 1 April 1913; D.A.C.G. Commissariat and Transport Staff 1 October 1884, D.A.A.G. Jamaica, West Indies, 12 November 1890, D.A.A.G. South Africa 16 September 1899 ; A.A.G. 1 June 1900 ; Director of Supplies 10 March1902 ; Colonel in Command, Army Service Corps Records, Woolwich Dockyard, 1 July 1905 ; Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport, Aldershot Command, 1 February 1908 ; Inspector of the Army Service Corps 4 January 1909 ; Director of Transport, War Office, 4 January 1913; Chief Inspector of Q.M.G.'s Services (temporary) 27 November 1914; served in Benin Expedition 1897, 2nd in Command (mentioned in despatches, "London Gazette," 7 May 1897, brevet of Lieut.-Colonel, medal with clasp); in South African War 1899-1902, on Staff, at operations in the Transvaal October 1901 to April 1902, on the Zululand frontier of Natal in September 1901, in Cape Colony December 1900 to September 1901 (mentioned in despatches, "London Gazette," 10 September 1901, brevet of Colonel, Queen's medal with two clasps, King's medal with two clasps) ; C.B, 24 June 1904." archive.org/stream/visitationofengl19inhowa#page/n79/mode... www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/a-f-m-anthony-florian-madi...

artolog, Amazing detective work, right down to the medals! I agree with your identification of Landon, so we will adjust the caption info given by the Bain News Service to more accurately identify him. Thanks!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Landon "Richmond Wilcox "Dick" Landon (November 20, 1898 – June 13, 1971) was an American high jumper who won a gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics.["

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Floyd E. Landon, 464th Ftr Sq, 507th FG.