Herbert Lumsden
LieutenantGeneral Herbert Lumsden CB, DSO amp Bar, MC was a senior British Army officer who fought in both World War I and World War II. He was the most senior British Army combat casualty of the Second World War.
Herbert Lumsden was born at Clanfield, Oxfordshire onApril 1897, the son of John Lumsden. Educated at The Leys School, at the outbreak of the First World War he was onlyyears old. He served in the ranks with the Territorial Force for ten months before passing into the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He was commissioned into the Royal Horse Artillery onAugust 1916. OnJuly 1918 Lumsden was awarded the Military Cross. The citation read
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