World War I
- Leslie Cecil Lloyd Averill - Platoon Commander and first New Zealander to scale the walls of Le Quesnoy
- Ronald Bannerman - World War I fighter ace
- Harold Beamish DSC - World War I fighter ace
- Charles Henry Brown - officer who served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front
- Thomas Culling - the first New Zealand fighter ace of World War I
- James Lloyd Findlay (RNZAF Officer) - Soldier and Fighter Pilot
- Herbert Ernest Hart - officer who served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front
- Francis Earl Johnston - officer who served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front
- George Napier Johnston - Commander Royal Artillery of the New Zealand Division
- George Augustus King - officer who served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front
- William George Malone - officer who was killed in action at Gallipoli
- Charles Melvill - officer who served on the Western Front, later Commandant of New Zealand Military Forces
- Arthur Plugge - officer who served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front
- Alfred William Robin - Commandant, New Zealand Military Forces
- Andrew Hamilton Russell - Commander, New Zealand Division
- William Sinclair-Burgess - New Zealand Officer serving with Australian Forces
- James Waddell (French Foreign Legion) - New Zealand soldier serving with the French Foreign Legion
- Bright Williams - Last surviving New Zealand Soldier of the First World War
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