List of Old Alleynians - Military

Military

  • Rear Admiral Martin Alabaster, Flag Officer, Scotland, Northern England and Northern Ireland
  • Brigadier Alan Douglas Campbell Clacher MBE OBE
  • Lieutenant General Eric Goddard, Indian Army, GOC-in-C Southern Command India
  • Air Chief Marshal Sir John Willis GBE KCB FRAeS, Vice Chief of the Defence Staff
  • Berthold Wells Key CB DSO MC ADC (1895–1986), Major General during Second World War
  • Wing Commander Frank Arthur Brock OBE (1884–1918), inventor of the smoke-screen at Zeebrugge in 1918
  • Flight Lieutenant Charles H Collet DSO (Captain in the RMA), hero of the September 1914 air-raid on Düsseldorf, and the first naval officer to loop the loop (1888–1915)
  • Wing Commander G H Stainforth AFC RAF, British Royal Air Force pilot and the first man in the world to exceed 400 mph in an aircraft – (1899 to 1942)
  • Brigadier James Whitehead, CB, CMG, CBE, DSO, OStJ, ADC (1880 to 1955) – British Indian Army officer who later became a senior officer in the London Metropolitan Police.
  • Group Captain Cyril Nelson "Kit" Lowe (1891–1983) – English rugby union footballer, First World War flying ace, and supposedly the inspiration for W. E. Johns' character "Biggles".
  • Air Vice-Marshal F C Halahan CMG CBE DSO MVO
  • Group Captain J C Halahan CBE AFC
  • Air Commodore H M Cave-Browne-Cave – former Director of Technical Development at the Air Ministry
  • Major General Sir Andrew M. Stuart KCMG CB – Former Director of Works, BEF.
  • General Sir Webb Gillman KCB KCMG DSO – former Chief of staff in Mesopotamia.
  • Lieutenant General Sir H C Holman KCB CMG DSO –
  • Air Commodore Owen Truelove – First man to fly from England to New Zealand in a glider

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