Lieutenant-General Frederick Vavasour Broome Witts CB, CBE, DSO, MC (30 January 1889 – 10 March 1969) was a senior British Army officer.
Under heavy rifle and machine gun fire he made a personal reconnaissance of the river bank, and subsequently led a party of his men carrying a pontoon across the open and down the bank.
Although wounded himself, and in spite of casualties among his party, which made the task increasingly difficult, he succeeded, in full view of the enemy, in launching the pontoon.
[5]Witts attended the Staff College, Quetta, from 1922−1923 and served at the War Office in London for the next four years.
[6] In the Second World War he served as General Officer Commanding 45th Infantry Division from September 1939, Deputy Chief of Staff for the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France from April 1940 and General Officer Commanding 59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division from May 1940.