Major-General Sir Walter Fullarton Lodovic Lindsay (15 May 1855 – 7 March 1930) was a British Army officer who was a senior figure in the Royal Artillery during the First World War.

Military career

Lindsay was born into a Scottish family in

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, London, the son of Captain Alexander Lindsay of the

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, and his wife, Jane. He was educated in Scotland before continuing to the

Royal Military Academy, Woolwich The Royal Military Academy (RMA) at Woolwich, in south-east London, was a British Army military academy for the training of commissioned officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers. It later also trained officers of the Royal Corps of Sig ...

. He followed his father into the Army, joining the Royal Artillery and seeing overseas service in the

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and the Second Boer War from 1899 to 1900. He was

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and awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his service in South Africa. He later rose to command the Southern Division of the artillery in 1906, and in 1912 was appointed to command the West Lancashire Division of the Territorial Force. On the outbreak of the First World War, he was appointed as the chief artillery officer of the British Expeditionary Force, with the rank of Major-General."LINDSAY, Maj.-Gen. Sir Walter (Fullarton Lodovic)", in ''Who Was Who'' (2007)
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for the first months of the war; however, there were few centralised artillery forces commanded by corps or GHQ at this stage, and as a result Lindsay was sidelined and rarely involved in field operations. He was replaced by

John Philip Du Cane General (United Kingdom), General Sir John Philip Du Cane, (5 May 1865 – 5 April 1947) was a British Army officer. He held high rank during the First World War, most notably as Major General Royal Artillery at General Headquarters in 1915 when ...

in January 1915, returning home with a knighthood and appointed as the Inspector of Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery. He was later briefly commander of the

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before retiring from the army in 1917. He died in London after a long illness.

References

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