Walter Lumsden
Peerage person ID=360749
About Walter Lumsden
Lived 1865 – 1947 (aged 82).
Rear-Admiral Walter Lumsden, (16 April 1865 – 22 November 1947) was a Royal Navy and Royal Indian Marine officer. He was Director of the Royal Indian Marine from 1909 to 1917.
The son of Colonel Henry Lumsden, of Pitcaple Castle, Aberdeenshire, Walter Lumsden joined the Royal Navy in 1880 and served on HMS Invincible during the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882, where he was slightly wounded. He retired from the Royal Navy in 1909 in order to take up the directorship of the Royal Indian Marine.
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Walter Lumsden was born on 16 April 1865.
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Walter Lumsden died on 22 November 1947.
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