List of Old Harrovians - Military

Military

  • Field Marshal Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Governor General of Canada
  • Sir George Berkeley (general)
  • General Sir Robert Brownrigg, Quartermaster-General and Governor of Ceylon
  • James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, Leader of the Charge of the Light Brigade
  • Squadron Leader Gordon Cleaver
  • Admiral Sir Augustus Clifford
  • Admiral Sir Henry Codrington
  • General Sir William John Codrington
  • Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, 3rd Baronet
  • General Sir Peter de la Billière
  • Vice-Admiral the Hon. Richard Saunders Dundas, First Sea Lord
  • Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Erskine (Royal Navy officer)
  • David Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
  • Dudley Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
  • Field Marshal John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, Chief of Imperial General Staff
  • Lt. Gen. William Gott, Appointed commander of Eighth Army before dying in air crash
  • John Harington Gubbins, linguist & diplomat
  • General Lord Guthrie, Chief of the General Staff (1994–1997) and Chief of the Defence Staff (1997–2001)
  • Admiral Sir Eliab Harvey, Battle of Trafalgar
  • Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope, supporter of the Confederate States of America
  • Brigadier General Walter Long
  • Ivan Lyon, Lieutenant Colonel, commander Operation Jaywick
  • Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
  • General Sir James Newton Rodney Moore
  • Admiral George Perceval, 6th Earl of Egmont, served on HMS Orion at Trafalgar aged eleven
  • General Sir Thomas Riddell-Webster
  • Admiral Lord Rodney
  • General Lord Alexander Russell
  • Major General Sir Andrew Hamilton Russell, New Zealand commander at Gallipoli
  • Robert Sanders, 1st Baron Bayford
  • Francis Seymour, 5th Marquess of Hertford, Lord Chamberlain to Queen Victoria
  • Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Seymour (Royal Navy officer)
  • General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien
  • General Sir Lashmer Whistler
  • George Whatford, cricketer and British and Indian Army officer
  • General Sir George Alexander Weir
  • Major Hugh Wyld, British Army officer and cricketer

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