Military
Victoria Cross Recipients
- Captain Robert Cuthbert Grieve VC
Australian Army
- Major General Herbert William Lloyd CB CMG CVO DSO
- Major General George Vasey CB CBE DSO Bar
- Major General Edward Milford CB CBE DSO
- Major General John Stewart Whitelaw CB CBE
- Major General John Whitelaw AO CBE - son of Major General John Stewart Whitelaw (see above)
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“The transformation of the impossible into reality is always the mark of a demonic will. The only way to recognize a military genius is by the fact that, during the war, he will mock the rules of warfare and will employ creative improvisation instead of tested methods and he will do so at the right moment.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
“War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valour, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)