Military
- General Sir Terence Airey - soldier, GOC Hong Kong
- Joe Baker-Cresswell - Royal Navy officer, aide-de-camp to King George VI
- General Sir Robert Bray - Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe
- Sir Stephen Bull, 2nd Baronet, killed on active service in Java, 1942
- Donald Cunnell - First World War fighter pilot
- Air Vice-Marshal Sir William Cushion, Royal Air Force officer and British Overseas Airways Corporation executive
- Arthur Estcourt - First World War officer
- Major-General Guy Gregson - soldier
- Sir Christopher Heydon - took part in the capture of Cádiz, 1596
- General Sir William Holmes - Second World War general
- Henry Howard - Second World War commander of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
- Major-General John Lethbridge - soldier
- Major-General Patrick Marriott - Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst 2009–2012
- Rear-Admiral Brian Perowne - Chief of Fleet Support, Royal Navy
- Sir Philip Toosey - Bridge on the River Kwai commander
- Peter W. Wilkinson MC - Royal Artillery and Royal Air Force
- Tom Wintringham - soldier, military historian, journalist, poet, communist
- Major-General A. E. Younger - soldier
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“Stately as a galleon, I sail across the floor,
Doing the military two-step, as in the days of yore.”
—Joyce Grenfell (1910–1979)
“My faith is the grand drama of my life. I’m a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colours for those who see none.”
—Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
“Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)