War Heroes
- Leo Clarke, Victoria Cross winner in World War I
- Robert Cruickshank, Victoria Cross winner in World War I
- Frederick William Hall Victoria Cross winner in World War I
- Andrew Charles Mynarski, Victoria Cross winner in World War II
- Frank Pickersgill, SOE agent in World War II executed by the Nazis
- Robert Shankland, Victoria Cross winner in World War I
- Sir William Stephenson (a.k.a. Intrepid), spy, man on whom the character of James Bond is based
- Coulson Norman Mitchell, Victoria Cross winner in World War 1
- Christopher O'Kelly, Victoria Cross winner in World War 1
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“The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“I shall not want Honour in Heaven
For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney
And have talk with Coriolanus
And other heroes of that kidney.”
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