Johnson Lindsay Rowlett Parsons

Johnson Lindsay Rowlett Parsons CMG DSO (January 8, 1876 – October 3, 1935) was a Canadian geologist, surveyor and military officer specializing in intelligence.

Parsons, along with Mitchell, were instrumental in establishing the Canadian Corps' intelligence organization and architecture.

Elliot credited him with much of the intelligence behind the planning for the Canadian offensive of 1917 which included the Battle of Vimy Ridge.

Due to ill health he retired, in 1935, to pension, medically unfit and granted honorary rank of Brigadier.

[1] Johnson Lindsay Rowlett Parsons died on 10 March 1935 at Saint John, New Brunswick.

Major-General A.C. MacDonell and staff officers, 1st Canadian Infantry Division. (Front row, L-R): Lieutenant-Colonel J.L.R. Parsons, Brigadier-General H.C. Thacker, Major-General A.C. Macdonnell, Lieutenant-Colonel J. Sutherland Brown, Colonel H.P. Wright. (Rear row, L-R): Lieutenant-Colonel H.F.H. Hertzberg, Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel F.G. Scott, Lieutenant J.M. Macdonnell