Francis Arthur Sutton

Major General Francis Arthur Sutton M.C. (born England 14 February 1884, died Hong Kong 22 October 1944) was an English adventurer known as "One Arm Sutton" after losing part of an arm by a hand grenade at the Battle of Gallipoli where he was awarded the Military Cross.{{London Gazette |issue=29240|page=7283 |date=23 July 1915|supp=y}}{{cite news|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/37840905|title=One-Arm Sutton.|work= Western Mail|date=7 September 1933|page=12|via=Trove}}

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{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1927/mar/08/war-pension-lieut-f-a-sutton|date=8 March 1927|title=WAR PENSION (LIEUT. F. A. SUTTON). |website=Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)}} 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.Jowett, Philip China's Wars: Rousing the Dragon 1894–1949

Osprey Publishing, 20 Nov 2013, p. 130 He became a major general for the Chinese warlord Zhang Zuolin. In Mukden, Sutton provided hospitality to Aloha Baker on her round-the-world drive as her party passed through a war zone."Call to Adventure" by Aloha Baker, Dover 2020, page 127.

During World War II he was interned in Hong Kong{{cite web | url=http://thejadedtraveller.com/Harbin.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090205163803/http://thejadedtraveller.com/Harbin.html | archive-date=5 February 2009 | title=Page Title }} where he died of dysentery.{{cite encyclopedia|author=Brian L. Evans|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/francis-arthur-sutton|title=Francis Arthur Sutton|encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia|accessdate=1 September 2019}}{{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=19–20 February 2005|archivedate=5 March 2005|work=Weekend Standard|accessdate=12 February 2018}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/3169608|title=Casualty|website=www.cwgc.org}}