Military
- William Alexander (Canadian soldier) (1880–1917), World War I soldier executed for desertion
- William Melville Alexander (1897–1988), Canadian World War I flying ace
- William Alexander, Lord Stirling (1726–1783), American Revolutionary War soldier
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it. The antique arm whined as he reached for another mug. It was a Russian military prosthesis, a seven-function force-feedback manipulator, cased in grubby pink plastic.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.”
—Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)