Lists of Welsh People - Military Men and Women

Military Men and Women

  • Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare KBE, served in World War II, later active politician and Privy Councillor
  • Dafydd ap Llewelyn ap Hywel, better known as Dafydd Gam (c. 1380–1415), prominent opponent of Owain Glyndŵr
  • Malcolm Douglas-Pennant, 6th Baron Penrhyn (1908–2003) honoured as an MBE after the invasion of Sicily in World War II
  • Hugh Evan-Thomas (1862–1928), Royal Navy Vice-Admiral
  • Ellis Humphrey Evans ("Hedd Wyn"), celebrated poet, died in the Third Battle of Ypres during World War I
  • William Charles Fuller VC (1884–1974), first Welshman to be awarded the Victoria Cross during World War I
  • T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) (1888–1935), soldier
  • Hubert William Lewis VC (1896–1977)
  • John Wallace Linton VC, Royal Navy Commander
  • Owain Lawgoch or Yvain de Galles (c. 1300–1378), mercenary and titular Prince of Wales
  • Sir Thomas Picton, (1758–1815), Lieutenant-General
  • Simon Weston (born 1961), soldier and broadcaster
  • John Williams VC (1857–1932), born John Fielding
  • Roger Williams (c. 1537–1595), soldier
  • Tasker Watkins VC GBE (Major) (1918 – 2007), first Welshman to be awarded the Victoria Cross during World War II, former President of the Welsh Rugby Union and former Lord Justice of Appeal and deputy Lord Chief Justice

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Famous quotes containing the words military, men and/or women:

    “I’m not a military man, Captain. War holds no romance for me. The side effects are repulsive.”
    —Richard Bluel, and Henry Hathaway. Major Hugh Tarkington (Clinton Greyn)

    “Young, and so thin, and so straight.
    So straight! as if nothing could ever bend her.
    But poor men would bend her, and doing things with poor men,
    Being much in bed, and babies would bend her over,
    And the rest of things in life that were for poor women,
    Coming to them grinning and pretty with intent to bend and to kill.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “The research on gender and morality shows that women and men looked at the world through very different moral frameworks. Men tend to think in terms of “justice” or absolute “right and wrong,” while women define morality through the filter of how relationships will be affected. Given these basic differences, why would men and women suddenly agree about disciplining children?”
    —Ron Taffel (20th century)