Lieutenant Colonel Richard "Dickie" Thomas Henry Lonsdale DSO & Bar, MC (27 December 1913 – 23 November 1988) was a British Army officer who served with the Parachute Regiment throughout much of the Second World War. After the war Lonsdale remained with the army and took command of 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment. He later served with the King's African Rifles in Uganda before he retired from the army in 1951. He died in 1988.