{{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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nauticapedia.ca/Gallery/Longstaff_Major_Victor.php|title=Major Longstaff|website=nauticapedia.ca}}</ref> He was the son of Llewellyn W. Longstaff, his brother was Tom Longstaff and his sister Katherine married Felix Wedgwood.<ref>{{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 = }}</ref>
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).
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