War Heroes
- Leo Clarke, Victoria Cross winner in World War I
- Robert Cruickshank, Victoria Cross winner in World War I
- Frederick William Hall Victoria Cross winner in World War I
- Andrew Charles Mynarski, Victoria Cross winner in World War II
- Frank Pickersgill, SOE agent in World War II executed by the Nazis
- Robert Shankland, Victoria Cross winner in World War I
- Sir William Stephenson (a.k.a. Intrepid), spy, man on whom the character of James Bond is based
- Coulson Norman Mitchell, Victoria Cross winner in World War 1
- Christopher O'Kelly, Victoria Cross winner in World War 1
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Famous quotes containing the words war and/or heroes:
“We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure—but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)