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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