List of Old Wellingtonians - Military

Military

  • Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, British army commander during World War II
  • Field Marshal Sir Nigel Bagnall, the professional head of the British Army
  • Noel Beresford-Peirse, Lieutenant General during the Second World War
  • Roger Bushell, Mastermind of the Great Escape
  • Air Commodore North Carter, C.B., D.F.C., whose RAF career included acting Group Captain commanding RAF Station, Dalcross 1941, Deputy Director of Bomber Operations, RAF, 1944, Station Commander at Castel Benito 1945-6, and Director of Personal Services (Provost Marshall) and Chief of Air Force Police, Air Ministry, 1953-54.
  • Brigadier John Constant died 1 November 2012, sapper in the Western Desert in World War 2, Chief Engineer of the Arab Legion, head of the Ministry of Transport’s Channel Tunnel Engineering Division
  • Sir Maurice Johnston, Lieutenant-General and Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire
  • Kenneth Loch, Director of Anti-Aircraft and Coastal Defence (1939–1941), Master-General of Ordnance, India (1944–1947), and head of the board of governors at Wellington
  • George Erroll Prior-Palmer, Major-General commanding the 6th Armoured Division
  • Sir John Rennie, Director of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)
  • John Salmond, Marshal of the Royal Air Force
  • Sir Hervey Degge Wilmot Sitwell, Major-General, Order of the Bath, Master of the Jewel Office
  • Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, professional head of the British Army
  • General Sir Harry Tuzo, General Officer Commanding, Northern Ireland and other senior British Army commands
  • Douglas Wimberley, British Divisional Commander in WWII

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