List of Old Tonbridgians - Armed Forces

Armed Forces

  • Peter Allan, POW in Colditz during WWII. Escaped from Colditz in a mattress, hitchhiked in a SS general's car before being recaptured in Vienna nine days later.
  • Clifford Thomason Beckett, CBE, MC, Major-General in British Army
  • William Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside GCB, MC, DFC, Commander-in-Chief of Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain
  • Eric Stuart Dougall, Victoria Cross, First World War
  • Air Chief Marshal Sir William Elliott GCVO, KCB, KBE, DFC & Bar, ADC, RAF
  • John Everard Gurdon DFC and bar. WW1 flying ace with 28 kills
  • Squadron Leader Hilary Hood, Battle of Britain fighter pilot
  • Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, Chief of the Imperial General Staff
  • Edmund Ironside, 2nd Baron Ironside
  • Harold Stephen Langhorne (1877–1878), Brigadier-General in the British Army in the First World War
  • James Archibald Dunboyne Langhorne (1893–1896), Brigadier in the British Army
  • Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough, a brilliant soldier and notorious eccentric who captured Barcelona in the war of Spanish Succession
  • Lieutenant-Commander Harold Newgass GC, recipient of the George Cross
  • Wing Commander Eric James Brindley Nicolson VC DFC, Battle of Britain fighter pilot and recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Major Sandy Smith (British Army officer), awarded the Military Cross for action at Pegasus Bridge
  • Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith, KCB, GCTE, the British admiral of whom Napoleon Bonaparte said, "That man made me miss my destiny".
  • Trevor Sidney Wade DFC AFC, Battle of Britain fighter pilot and ace
  • Air Chief Marshal Sir Andrew 'Sandy' Wilson, Former Air Member for Personnel and last C-in-C RAF Germany
  • Robert Charles Zaehner, British academic, wartime SOE agent and post war MI6 agent

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