Frederick Longstaff

{{about||English rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s and 1910s|Fred Longstaff|the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) at The University of Western Ontario|Fred Longstaffe}}

Major Frederick Victor Longstaff (15 June 1879 - 1961) was an Anglo-Canadian soldier, architect, military historian and mountaineer.{{Cite web|url=https://nauticapedia.ca/Gallery/Longstaff_Major_Victor.php|title=Major Longstaff|website=nauticapedia.ca}} He was the son of Llewellyn W. Longstaff, his brother was Tom Longstaff and his sister Katherine married Felix Wedgwood.{{cite book | title = The Guiding Spirit | date=1986| first1 =Andrew. J. |last1 =Kauffman | first2= William L.| last2 =Putnam | isbn = 9780969162124 |publisher =Footprint Publishing |pages= 223 | access-date = | url = }}

Longstaff 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).