List of People From Kent - Soldiers

Soldiers

  • Francis Thynne (c. 1544–1608) – officer of arms at the College of Arms, London
  • Samuel Argall (1580–1608) – Navy admiral and kidnapper of Pocahontas
  • Sir William Brockman (1595–1654) – politician and military leader during the English civil war
  • John Boys (1607–1664) – Royalist captain during the English Civil War
  • George Rooke (1650–1709) – naval commander during the Dutch Wars
  • George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington (1668–1733) – First Lord of the Admiralty
  • Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham (1726–1813) – First Lord of the Admiralty
  • James Wolfe (1727–1759) – military officer who defeated the French and established British rule in Canada
  • Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738–1805) – British general in the American War of Independence
  • Peter Rainier (1741–1808) – Royal Navy Admiral and Member of Parliament
  • John Nicholson Inglefield (1748–1828) – Royal Navy Captain of the Fleet
  • Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852) – field marshal and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
  • Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge (1785–1856) – field marshal and Governor-General of India
  • James Mouat (1815–1899) – recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • John Miller Adye (1819–1900) – general
  • William Sutton (1830–1888) – recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • George Truman Morrell (1830–1912) – Royal Navy commander
  • John French, 1st Earl of Ypres (1852–1925) – World War I field marshal
  • Harold Stephen Langhorne (1866–1932) – brigadier-general
  • Alexander Godley (1867–1957) – World War I general
  • Henry Edward Manning Douglas (1875–1939) – recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Arthur Borton (1883–1933) – recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Thomas Highgate (1895–1914) – first British soldier to be convicted of desertion and executed during World War I
  • James McCudden (1895–1918) – recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Dick White (1906–1993) – Head of the Secret Intelligence Service
  • Charles Henry Pepys Harington (1910–2007) – general
  • Roderick Alastair Brook Learoyd (1913–1996) – recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Peter Allen Norton (1962—) – awarded the George Cross for his service in Iraq
  • Sarah-Jayne Mulvihill (1973–2006) – Flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force killed in Iraq

Read more about this topic:  List Of People From Kent

Famous quotes containing the word soldiers:

    “But that wasn’t fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them,
    With the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to
    people they say Oh yes, they’re the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them.”
    —Ogden Nash (1902–1971)

    “How red the rose that is the soldier’s wound,
    The wounds of many soldiers, the wounds of all
    The soldiers that have fallen, red in blood,
    The soldier of time grown deathless in great size.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Next year we shall be living in a country
    That brought its soldiers home for lack of money.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)