Brigadier-General Frederick William Lumsden, VC, CB, DSO & Three Bars (14 December 1872 – 4 June 1918) was a British officer in Royal Marine Artillery and during the First World War.

Frederick William Lumsden was born into a military family in Faizabad, India, on 14 December 1872.

[2][3] Lumsden married Mary, the daughter of Lieutenant General Thomas N. Harward of the Royal Artillery, in December 1894.

[citation needed] Lumsden joined the Royal Marine Artillery as a junior officer in September 1890.

In order to effect this, he personally led four artillery teams and a party of infantry through the hostile barrage.

By this time the enemy, in considerable strength, had driven through the infantry covering points, and blown up the breach of the remaining gun.

[1][15][16][17] In 1920 the Mess of the Royal Marines commissioned H. Donald Smith to paint two portraits of Lumsden.