Frederick Daniel Parslow VC (14 January 1856 – 4 July 1915) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross.

At 0900 hrs 4 July 1915 in the Atlantic Ocean southwest of Queenstown, Ireland, the U-boat SM U-39 attacked HM Horse Transport Anglo-Californian, a 7,333 GRT cargo steamship that the UK Government had requisitioned from the Nitrate Producers' Steam Ship Company.

[2] Smith was about to obey the order when his wireless operator received a signal from a Royal Navy destroyer to hold on as long as possible.

Anglo-Californian got under way again, so U-39 opened a heavy fire, concentrated on the transport ship's bridge, and doing great damage.

[3] The younger Parslow was commissioned as a Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.