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Brigadier General FREDERICK WILLIAM LUMSDEN

Regiment & Unit/Ship

General Staff

Commanding 14th Bde.

Date of Death

Died 04 June 1918

Age 45 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BERLES NEW MILITARY CEMETERY

III. D. 1.

France

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment late Royal Marine Artillery
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Victoria Cross, Companion of the Bath, Distinguished Service Order and 3 Bars, Four times Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Croix de Guerre (France). Son of the late James Foot Lumsden (Indian Civil Service); husband of M. E. A. Lumsden, of Hampton Court Palace, Middlesex.
  • Personal Inscription THE BELOVED HUSBAND OF MARY LUMSDEN AND FATHER OF VIOLET NORTH
  • Additional Citation note

    An extract from "The London Gazette," No. 30122, dated 8th June, 1917, records the following:-"For most conspicuous bravery, determination and devotion to duty. Six enemy field guns having been captured, it was necessary to leave them in dug-in positions, 300 yards in advance of the position held by our troops. The enemy kept the captured guns under heavy fire. Maj. Lumsden undertook the duty of bringing the guns into our lines. In order to effect this, he personally led four artillery teams and a party of infantry through the hostile barrage. As one of these teams sustained casualties, he left the remaining teams in a covered position, and, through very heavy rifle, machine gun and shrapnel fire, led the infantry to the guns. By force of example and inspiring energy he succeeded in sending back two teams with guns, going through the barrage with the teams of the third gun. He then returned to the guns to await further teams, and these he succeeded in attaching to two of the three remaining guns, despite rifle fire, which had become intense at short range, and removed the guns to safety. By this time the enemy, in considerable strength, had driven through the infantry covering points, and blown up the breach of the remaining gun. Maj. Lumsden then returned, drove off the enemy, attached the gun to a team and got it away."

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