Ministers With Military Experience
- Colonel James Ralston, Canadian Army; commander (Lieutenant Colonel) of the 85th (Nova Scotia Highlanders) Battalion, CEF
- General Andrew McNaughton, 5th Battalion Canadian Mounted Rifles, Canadian Expeditionary Force, commander of the Canadian Corps, Canadian Militia/Permanent Active Militia and Canadian Army
- Battery Sergeant-Major Brooke Claxton, Victoria Rifles of Canada
- Major General George Pearkes, Canadian Expeditionary Force, commander of the Canadian Corps, Canadian Militia and Canadian Army
- Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Harkness, Royal Canadian Artillery, Canadian Army
- Lieutenant Colonel Gordon Churchill, Vickers Machine Gunner, Canadian Expeditionary Force; commander of the Fort Garry Horse and commanding officer of the 1st Canadian Carrier Regiment (Canada Corps)
- Brigadier General Charles Drury, commanding officer 4th Field Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery, General Staff Officer of the 2nd Canadian Division and acting commander of the Royal Artillery 4th Canadian Division (Canadian Army)
- Lieutenant Barney Danson, The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada
- Pilot Officer James Armstrong Richardson, Liberator anti-submarine patrol squadron of the RCAF
- Major Allan Bruce McKinnon, Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery and Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry
- Flight Lieutenant Gilles Lamontagne, bomber pilot RCAF
- Brigadier General (Ret'd) Gordon O'Connor, Royal Canadian Armoured Corps, Canadian Army
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