Frederick Longstaff

For English rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s and 1910s, see Fred Longstaff. For the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) at The University of Western Ontario, see Fred Longstaffe.

Major Frederick Victor Longstaff (15 June 1879 - 1961) was an Anglo-Canadian soldier, architect, military historian and mountaineer.[1] He was the son of Llewellyn W. Longstaff, his brother was Tom Longstaff and his sister Katherine married Felix Wedgwood.[2]

Longstaff wrote various works, including (1917) The Book of the Machine Gun with A. Hilliard Atteridge and Esquimalt Naval Base: A History of Its Work and Its Defences (1941).

References

  1. ^ "Major Longstaff". nauticapedia.ca.
  2. ^ Kauffman, Andrew. J.; Putnam, William L. (1986). The Guiding Spirit. Footprint Publishing. p. 223. ISBN 9780969162124.



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