Frederick Longstaff

Major Frederick Victor Longstaff (15 June 1879 - 1961) was an Anglo-Canadian soldier, architect, military historian and mountaineer. Son of Llewellyn W. Longstaff and brother of Tom Longstaff. He wrote various works, including (1917) The Book of the Machine Gun with A. Hilliard Atteridge and Esquimalt Naval Base: A History of Its Work and Its Defences (1941).