Old Greshamians - Military

Military

  • General Sir Terence Airey - soldier, GOC Hong Kong
  • Joe Baker-Cresswell - Royal Navy officer, aide-de-camp to King George VI
  • General Sir Robert Bray - Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe
  • Sir Stephen Bull, 2nd Baronet, killed on active service in Java, 1942
  • Donald Cunnell - First World War fighter pilot
  • Air Vice-Marshal Sir William Cushion, Royal Air Force officer and British Overseas Airways Corporation executive
  • Arthur Estcourt - First World War officer
  • Major-General Guy Gregson - soldier
  • Sir Christopher Heydon - took part in the capture of Cádiz, 1596
  • General Sir William Holmes - Second World War general
  • Henry Howard - Second World War commander of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
  • Major-General John Lethbridge - soldier
  • Major-General Patrick Marriott - Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst 2009–2012
  • Rear-Admiral Brian Perowne - Chief of Fleet Support, Royal Navy
  • Sir Philip Toosey - Bridge on the River Kwai commander
  • Peter W. Wilkinson MC - Royal Artillery and Royal Air Force
  • Tom Wintringham - soldier, military historian, journalist, poet, communist
  • Major-General A. E. Younger - soldier

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Famous quotes containing the word military:

    “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)

    “In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious. For that we care for them; from that have issued endless consequences.”
    —Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)

    “Nothing changes my twenty-six years in the military. I continue to love it and everything it stands for and everything I was able to accomplish in it. To put up a wall against the military because of one regulation would be doing the same thing that the regulation does in terms of negating people.”
    —Margarethe Cammermeyer (b. 1942)