List of Trinity College Dublin People - Armed Forces

Armed Forces

  • Eyre Coote (1762–1823), Irish British Army soldier and politician; Governor-General of Jamaica (1806–1808)
  • Henry George Gore-Browne (1830–1912), Irish British Army colonial of the 100th Regiment of Foot; awarded the Victoria Cross (circa 1857, while a captain of the 32nd Regiment of Foot)
  • James Murray Irwin (1858–1938), Irish British Army major-general doctor
  • Col. Ernest Achey Loftus, CBE was a soldier, teacher and diarist.
  • Robert Nairac (1948–1977), English British Army captain; abducted and killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1977; posthumously awarded the George Cross (1979)
  • Robert Ross (1766–1814), Anglo-Irish British Army officer; participated in the Napoleonic Wars (various ranks); commander of the British force which sacked Washington, D.C., during the War of 1812 (as major-general)
  • Sir Hovenden Walker (1656 or 1666 – 1725 or 1728), Royal Navy officer

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