Major General Sir Victor Morven Fortune KBE CB DSO DL (21 August 1883 – 2 January 1949) was a senior officer of the British Army.

[1][2] On the outbreak of the First World War he had risen to the rank of lieutenant and was serving as a platoon commander in A Company under Major Lord George Stewart-Murray.

Fortune led A Company ably through The First Battle of Ypres before moving up to battalion headquarters as adjutant on 11 November,[4] where he saw further action at Givenchy, Cuinchy, Neuve Chapelle and Aubers Ridge.

Fortune returned to the 1st Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) almost exactly a year later on 16 September 1916 when, as an acting lieutenant colonel, he was appointed commanding officer (CO) during the Battle of the Somme.

After naval evacuation proved impossible and supplies of ammunition had been exhausted, Major-General Fortune was forced to surrender the greater part of the Highland Division at St Valery en Caux.