Major-General Lindsay Merritt Inglis, CB, CBE, DSO & Bar, MC, ED (16 May 1894 – 17 March 1966) was a New Zealand military officer, lawyer and magistrate.

Born in Mosgiel, he volunteered for service in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force during World War I. Inglis served on the Western Front and was awarded the Military Cross for his actions during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette.

He re-enlisted in the New Zealand Army during World War II and commanded the 4th Infantry Brigade in Allied campaigns in Crete and North Africa.

After completing his education at Waitaki Boys' High School in Oamaru, he commenced legal studies at the University of Otago in 1913.

[2] In late April 1915, eight months after the outbreak of the First World War, Inglis volunteered for the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF).

Inglis and his company were present at the capture of Le Quesnoy in late 1918,[5] he was discharged from the NZEF in April 1919 and returned to New Zealand.

[3] He led his brigade in the capture of Belhamed, a hill adjacent to Sidi Rezegh, which resulted in the opening of a corridor to Tobruk during Operation Crusader, for which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO).

He would remain as divisional commander for the next two months as Freyberg recovered,[2] and was later awarded a bar to his DSO which acknowledged his leadership of the division during this period.

[16] This was further exacerbated on 30 June when Inglis went to Cairo without informing his staff who, in his absence, subsequently asked Kippenberger to take temporary command of the division.

Afterwards, while Inglis was critical of the conduct of the brigades and laid primary blame for the failure on them and the lack of armour, he overlooked the influence of his own role as divisional commander on the outcome of the battle.

[3] After the end of the war in Europe, Inglis was one of New Zealand's delegates for the Allied Control Commission for Germany, which administered the now occupied country.

He was appointed president of a military court in the British-controlled area of Germany dealing with crimes committed by the occupying forces.

After six months in this role, in February 1947 he was promoted to major-general and made chief judge of the Allied Control Commission's Supreme Court.

[2] His collection of military history books was donated to the Kippenberger Research Library in the QEII Army Memorial Museum at Waiouru.