Former Officers
- William Russell—left as a major in 1947; later designed a coffee percolator in 1952, and the world's first automatic electric kettle in 1955, to be sold by his company Russell Hobbs.
- Ivan Hirst—left as a major; saved Volkswagen from becoming a part of the spoils of the war reparations act at the end of WWII.
- Edward Southwell Russell, 26th Baron de Clifford—left as a lieutenant colonel; the last peer to be tried for a felony by the House of Lords (1936; acquitted).
- David Judd
- Andrew Figgures
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