Military
- General Sir Richard Dannatt (Hatfield) - Chief of the General Staff of the British Army
- Rear Admiral Amjad Hussain (Collingwood) - British Royal Navy (first Admiral from an ethnic-minority group and the highest ranking ethnic-minority officer in the UK armed forces)
- Vice Admiral Sir Richard Jeffrey Ibbotson - former Naval Secretary and Deputy Commander-in-Chief Fleet
- Vice Admiral Anthony Johnstone-Burt (Van Mildert) - Chief of Staff to NATO's Supreme Allied Command Transformation
- Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence - Vice-Admiral of the Royal Navy, knight and husband of Anne, Princess Royal
- Alan Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland - army officer
- Major-General Peter Grant Peterkin - former Sergeant at Arms and Military Secretary
- Air Vice Marshal Adam Henry Robson (Armstrong) - officer in the Royal Air Force
- Vice Admiral David George Steel - former Naval Secretary and current Second Sea Lord
- John Vane, 11th Baron Barnard - army officer, Lord Lieutenant of Durham
- Air Marshal Peter Brett Walker - Former assistant Chief of Staff at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe and current Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey
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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.”
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