Lewis Lyne

Major-General Lewis Owen Lyne CB DSO (1899–1970) was a British Commander during World War II.

Military career
Lyne was commissioned into the Lancashire Fusiliers in 1921. He was made a Staff Officer at the War Office in 1938.

He served in World War II being appointed Commanding Officer of 9th Bn the Lancashire Fusiliers in 1940. He went on to be Chief Instructor at the Senior Officers' School in 1941 and Commander of 169th Infantry Brigade in Italy in 1942. Although he was wounded in 1943, he was appointed General Officer Commanding of 59th (Staffordshire) Infantry Division on 30 March 1944 and then of 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division in Normandy a few months later. He then became General Officer Commanding 7th Armoured Division and led it through the Siegfried Line and on to Hamburg. He took part in the Victory Parade in Berlin on 21 July 1945.

After the War he became Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin. He was made Director of Staff Duties at the War Office in 1946 and General Officer Commanding British Troops in Egypt in 1949; he retired due to ill health later that year.