Frederick George Sherriff OBE MC (8 March 1889 – 31 January 1943) was a British fencer who was an officer in the British Army and later the Royal Air Force.

He competed at two Olympic Games, in the men's team foil, at Paris in 1924 and Amsterdam in 1928. He was a two times British fencing champion, winning two foil titles at the British Fencing Championships in 1924 and 1925.

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He had served in the First World War in the York and Lancaster Regiment and continued into the Second as a Royal Air Force officer, ultimately Group Captain. He is buried in St Cuthbert's Churchyard, Donington, Shropshire.

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1889 births

1943 deaths

British male fencers

Olympic fencers for Great Britain

Fencers at the 1924 Summer Olympics

Fencers at the 1928 Summer Olympics

Sportspeople from West Ham

Officers of the Order of the British Empire

Recipients of the Military Cross

York and Lancaster Regiment soldiers

British Army personnel of World War I

Royal Air Force group captains

Military personnel from London

Royal Air Force personnel killed in World War II

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