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Herbert Lumsden
Lieutenant-General Herbert William Lumsden, & Bar, MC (8 April 1897 – 6 January 1945) was a senior British Army officer who fought in both World War I and World War II. He was the most senior British Army combat casualty of the Second World War.
Early life and military career.
Herbert Lumsden was born at Clanfield, Oxfordshire on 8 April 1897, the son of John Lumsden. Educated at The Leys School, at the outbreak of the First World War he was only
Lieutenant-General Sir Alan Brooke
- May–Jun 1940 Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery
- 1940–1941 Lieutenant-General Edmund Osborne
- 1941–1942 Lieutenant-General Kenneth Anderson
- Apr–Sep 1942 Lieutenant-General James Steele
- 1942–1943 Lieutenant-General Gerald Templer
- Jul–Oct 1943 Lieutenant-General Herbert Lumsden
- 1943–1944 Lieutenant-General Sir Desmond Anderson
References.
- Sir Arthur Bryant, "The Turn of the Tide, based on the War Diaries of Field Marshal Viscount Alanbrooke",