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Military

  • Field Marshal Sir Claud Jacob GCB GCSI KCMG, WW1 Commander
  • Admiral Sir Horace Law GCB OBE, DSC RN, Commander in Chief Naval Home Command 1971-2
  • General Sir Charles Monro Bt GCB, GCMG GCSI, Commander in Chief India 1916–1920, Governor of Gibraltar 1923–1928
  • General Sir John Wilsey GCB, CBE, DL, Commander in Chief Land Command 1995–1996
  • General Sir Jeremy Blacker KCB CBE, Master-General of the Ordnance 1991–1995
  • General Sir Nicholas Parker KCB, CBE, former Commander in Chief Land Command and former Deputy Commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan
  • Vice Admiral Sir James Perowne KBE RN, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe 1998–2002
  • Lieutenant General Sir Steuart Pringle Bt, KCB, DSC RM, former Commandant General Royal Marines until 1984
  • Lieutenant General Sir Martin Garrod KCB, CMG OBE, DL RM, former Commandant General Royal Marines 1987–90
  • Lieutenant General David Leakey CMG, CBE, retired, currently Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod
  • Major General the Right Honourable the Viscount Arthur Benoît Wells, KG, a prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials of major war criminals
  • Major-General Sir Iain Mackay-Dick KCVO MBE, former Major-General Commanding the Household Division and General Officer Commanding London District
  • Major General Sir Roy Redgrave KBE MC, former Commander of British Forces in Hong Kong
  • Major General Julian Thompson CB OBE, Commander of Royal Marines (3 Commando Brigade) in the Falklands War
  • Major General Patrick Cordingley DSO, Commander Desert Rats (and overall British Commander) in the Gulf War
  • Brigadier Hugh Bellamy CBE DSO, commander of 6th Airlanding Brigade during the Rhine Crossing and Operation Varsity, the famous airborne assault.
  • Lieutenant Colonel Reginald Applin DSO OBE, developer of machine gun tactics and Conservative MP.
  • Lieutenant Colonel Timothy Spicer OBE, CEO of Aegis Defence Services
  • Captain Keith Muspratt MC, World War One flying ace
  • Flight Lieutenant Carl Raymond Davis DFC RAF, Battle of Britain flying ace

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Famous quotes containing the word military:

    “There are many examples of women that have excelled in learning, and even in war, but this is no reason we should bring ‘em all up to Latin and Greek or else military discipline, instead of needle-work and housewifry.”
    —Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)

    “The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.”
    —Sean O’Casey (1884–1964)

    “There was somewhat military in his nature, not to be subdued, always manly and able, but rarely tender, as if he did not feel himself except in opposition. He wanted a fallacy to expose, a blunder to pillory, I may say required a little sense of victory, a roll of the drum, to call his powers into full exercise.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)