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General

A general officer is an officer of high military rank, usually in the army, and in some nations, the air force. The term is widely used by many nations of the world, and when a country uses a different term, there is an equivalent title given....

 or Brigadier

Brigadier

Brigadier is a senior military rank, the meaning of which is somewhat different in different military services. The brigadier rank is generally superior to the rank of colonel, and subordinate to major general....

 including British Indian army and "non-notable" generals. It is not complete - please add to it if you know of any omissions.

It does not include English generals (England has not had its own army since the Act of Union with Scotland in 1707) or Scottish generals.

See also :Category:British generals - note that a "Brigadier" is not classed as a "general", whereas a "Brigadier General" is.

Hence, in the lists below:

• 1*
  1 star rank
  An officer of one-star rank is a senior commander in many of the armed services holding a rank described by the NATO code of OF-6. The term is also used by some armed forces which are not NATO members...
  
   = Brigadier General/Brigadier
• 2*
  2 star rank
  An officer of two-star rank is a senior commander in many of the armed services holding a rank described by the NATO code of OF-7. The term is also used by some armed forces which are not NATO members...
  
   = Major General
• 3*
  3 star rank
  An officer of three-star rank is a very senior commander in many of the armed services holding a rank described by the NATO code of OF-8. The term is also used by some armed forces which are not NATO members...
  
   = Lieutenant General
• 4*
  4 star rank
  Four-star rank is a term used to describe a very senior commander in many of the armed services holding a rank described by the NATO OF-9 code. The term is also used by some armed forces which are not NATO members...
  
   = General

(dates after the name are birth and death)

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• Major-General Henry Richard Abadie
  Henry Richard Abadie
  Major-General Henry Richard Abadie CB was a British Army officer.-Military career:Abadie joined the army in 1858 and served in the 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia. In 1879, Abadie fought in the Second Anglo-Afghan War including the Battle of Kandahar...
  
  
• Major-General Herbert Edward Stacy Abbott
  Herbert Edward Stacy Abbott
  Herbert Edward Stacy Abbott was a Major-General in the British Indian Army in India during colonial rule.-Publications:...
  
  
• General James Abbott
• Brigadier Burton Edward Abbott (1906- )
• Leonard Henry Abbott - DA&QMG
• General James Abercrombie
• General Robert Abercromby of Airthrey
  Robert Abercromby of Airthrey
  General Sir Robert Abercromby GCB , the youngest brother of Sir Ralph Abercromby, was a general in the army, a knight of the Bath, and at one period the governor of Bombay and commander-in-chief of the British forces in India.-Military career:...
  
  
• General John Abercromby
• Lieutenant-General Ralph Abercromby
  Ralph Abercromby
  Sir Ralph Abercromby was a Scottish soldier and politician. He rose to the rank of lieutenant-general in the British Army, was noted for his services during the Napoleonic Wars, and served as Commander-in-Chief, Ireland.He twice served as MP for Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire, and was...
  
  
• Lieutenant General William Scarlett, 3rd Baron Abinger
  William Scarlett, 3rd Baron Abinger
  Lieutenant-General William Frederick Scarlett, 3rd Baron Abinger CB , was a British peer.Scarlett succeeded his father Robert Scarlett, 2nd Baron Abinger, in 1861. Educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, the 3rd Baron became an officer of the Scots Fusilier Guards regiment of the...
  
  
• Major-General Sir William Ernest Victor Abraham  (1897–1980)
• Major-General Wroth Palmer Acland
  Wroth Palmer Acland
  Sir Wroth Palmer Acland K.C.B. , English soldier lieutenant-general, notable for his role in the Peninsular War.-Biography:Acland was son of Arthur Palmer Acland, of Fairfield, and nephew of Sir Thomas Acland, Bart., and entered the army in 1787 as ensign in the 17th regiment. He became lieutenant...
  
  
• Major-General John Acland
• General Frederick Adam
  Frederick Adam
  General Sir Frederick Adam GCB GCMG was a Scottish major-general at the Battle of Waterloo, in command of the 3rd Brigade. He was the fourth son of William Adam of Blair Adam and his wife Eleanora, the daughter of Charles Elphinstone, 10th Lord Elphinstone.-Military career:At the age of fourteen...
  
  
• Lieutenant General Alexander Adams
  Alexander Adams
  Lieutenant-General Alexander Adams was a British army officer. He distinguished himself in the Second Anglo-Maratha War, serving with the 78th Highlanders in India. His commander, General Wellesley , thanked him for his services on several occasions...
  
  
• Brigadier John Buchanan Adams (1906- )
• Brigadier-General Thomas Adams
  Thomas Adams (British Army officer)
  Thomas Adams , British Army major, posthumously promoted to brigadier-general based on accounts of his defense of the British position in Bengal in 1763.-Biography:...
  
  
• Major-General John Worthington Adams
  John Worthington Adams
  Sir John Worthington Adams KCB was a British major-general in India.Adams joined the Army in 1780. During the Rohilla War he fought under Sir Robert Abercromby. He was present during the Battle of Seringapatam in 1799. In 1809 he commanded a regiment in Central India. He became a Companion of the...
  
  
• Major-General Sir Allan Henry Shafto Adair
  Allan Henry Shafto Adair
  Major General Sir Allan Henry Shafto Adair, 6th Baronet GCVO, CB, DSO, MC & Bar JP DL was a British Army general who served in both World Wars; as a company commander in the Grenadier Guards in the First, and as Commanding Officer the Guards Armoured Division in the Second.-Military career:Adair...
  
   (1897–1988)
• Major-General Robert Bellew Adams
• General Sir Robert Forbes Adam, 2nd Bt
  Ronald Adam
  General Sir Ronald Forbes Adam, 2nd Baronet, GCB, DSO, OBE was a British Army officer whose career spanned World War I and World War II...
  
   (1885–1982)
• Major-General William Adlam
  William Adlam
  Major General William Adlam was an English British Army soldier and artist. He was descended from a long line of distinguished soldiers.Adlam served in the American War of Independence as a captain in the army in the 40th Regiment of Foot...
  
  
• Rodolph Ladeveze Adlercron - GOC Infantry Brigade and Calais Base
• Major-General George Henry Addison (1876–1964)
• Brigadier Leonard Joseph Lancelot Addison (1902–1975)
• Brigadier John Frederick Adye (1900- )
• General John Miller Adye
  John Miller Adye
  General Sir John Miller Adye GCB was a British general.-Military career:Born the son of Major James P. Adye, he was born at Sevenoaks, Kent, on 1 November 1819...
  
  
• James Agnew
• Henry Sandys Ainslie - GOC Infantry Brigade
• General Richard Airey, 1st Baron Airey
  Richard Airey, 1st Baron Airey
  General Richard Airey, 1st Baron Airey GCB , known as Sir Richard Airey between 1855 and 1876, was a British general.-Background:...
  
  
• Major-General Christopher Airy
  Christopher Airy
  Major-General Sir Christopher John Airy KCVO CBE was General Officer Commanding the Household Division and Major-General Commanding London District.-Military career:...
  
  
• Major-General Arthur Aitken
  Arthur Aitken
  Major General Arthur Edward Aitken was a British military commander.Born in Rochford in Essex, by the time of the 1871 Census he was a 9-year old pupil at a school in Brighton, Sussex.He began his military career in 1882 as a cavalryman...
  
  
• Brigadier Monowar Khan Afridi (1900–1968)
• Brigadier David Francis Aikenhead (1895–1955)
• Brigadier William Aird-Smith (1893–1942)
• Lieutenant-General Sir Terence Sidney Airey
  Terence Airey
  Lieutenant-General Sir Terence Sydney Airey, KCMG, CB, CBE was an officer in the British Army.-Family and education:Airey was the son of Sydney Airey...
  
   (1900–1983)
• Brigadier William Henry Hutton Aitken (1898- )
• Major-General John Aldam Aizlewood
  John Aldam Aizlewood
  Major General John Aldam Aizlewood MC was an officer in the British Army and British Indian Army during the interwar years and World War II.-Military career:John Aizlewood was commissioned into 4th Dragoon Guards in 1914....
  
   (1895–1990)
• General John Akehurst
  John Akehurst (British Army officer)
  General Sir John Bryan Akehurst KCB CBE was a British Army General who rose to be Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe.-Military career:...
  
  
• Major-General William Philip Jopp Akerman (1888–1972)
• Major-General Clifton Edward Rawdon Grant Alban (1889- )
• General George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle
  George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle
  General George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle KG PC , styled Viscount Bury until 1754, was a British soldier nobleman best known for his capture of Havana in 1762 during the Seven Years' War.-Early life:...
  
  
• General George Keppel, 6th Earl of Albemarle
  George Keppel, 6th Earl of Albemarle
  General George Thomas Keppel, 6th Earl of Albemarle DL, FGS, FSA , styled The Honourable from birth until 1851, was a British soldier, Liberal politician and writer.-Background and education:...
  
  
• Lieutenant-General Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle
  Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle
  Lieutenant-General Willem Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle KG, KCB, PC, ADC was a British diplomat and an American colonist....
  
  
• Lieutenant-General Edwin Alderson
  Edwin Alderson
  Lieutenant General Sir Edwin Alfred Hervey Alderson KCB was a senior British Army officer who served in several campaigns of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...
  
  
• Brigadier James Robert Travers Aldous (1898–1985)
• Edwin Alfred Harvey Alderson - GOC Corps
• Charles Henry Alexander - CRA
• Henry Lethbridge Alexander - DA&QMG
• Major-General Henry Templer Alexander
  Henry Templer Alexander
  Major General Henry Templer Alexander was a former Chief of Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces.-Education:Major General Alexander attended Sedbergh School, Yorkshire. He then received military training at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.-Career:Major General Alexander was commissioned...
  
   (1911–1977)
• Major General Ernest Wright Alexander
  Ernest Wright Alexander
  Major General Ernest Wright Alexander VC CB CMG was by birth an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:Alexander was 43 years old, and a major in the...
  
   - GOCRA
• Major-General Frederick John Alfieri (1892–1961)
• General Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet
  Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet
  General Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet GCB was a Scottish soldier who achieved high office in the British Army in the 1880s.-Military career:...
  
  
• Brigadier-General Percy Stuart Allan - GOC 155th Brigade, 52nd (Lowland) Division TF
• Brigadier-General Walter Allason (1875–1960) - GOC 52nd Infantry Brigade, 17th (Northern) Division
• Brigadier-General Alfred James Whitacre Allen (1857–1939) - GOC 74th Brigade, 25th Division
• Brigadier Algernon Anderson Johnston Allen (1894- )
• Brigadier Basil George Allen (1893- )
• Brigadier Frederick Josephus Allen (1897- )
• Brigadier John Robert Allen (1893- )
• Brigadier John Frederick Whitacre Allen (1890–1976)
• Major-General Robert Hall Allen (1886–1981)
• Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Walter Allfrey
  Charles Walter Allfrey
  Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Walter Allfrey, KBE, CB, DSO, MC was a British Army officer who served in both the First and Second World Wars .-Military career:...
  
   (1895–1964)
• Brigadier-General William Henry Loraine Allgood (1868–1957) - GOC 45th Brigade, 15th (Scottish) Division
• Brigadier George Frederick Allison (1888–1946)
• Brigadier William Wigram Allison (1895–1984)
• Brigadier Edward Percival Allman-Smith (1886–1969)
• Brigadier George Frederick Hill Alms (1895- )
• Brigadier Llewilyn Arthur Augustus Alston (1890–1968)
• Major-General Charles Alten
  Charles Alten
  Sir Charles Alten , Hanoverian and British soldier, son of Baron Alten, a member of an old Hanoverian family, entered the service of the elector as a page at the age of twelve. He led a famous Anglo-Portuguese division during the Peninsular War. At the Battle of Waterloo, he commanded a division...
  
  
• Brigadier Robert Denis Ambrose (1896–1974)
• Major-General Leon Williamson Amps (1892- )
• General Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven
  Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven
  General Peregrine Bertie, 3rd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, 3rd Marquess of Lindsey, 6th Earl of Lindsey, 19th Baron Willoughby de Eresby PC was the son of Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven....
  
  
• Austin Thomas Anderson - CRA
• Charles Alexander Anderson
  Charles Alexander Anderson
  Lieutenant General Sir Charles Alexander Anderson KCB KCIE AM was Commander of British Troops in South China.-Military career:Anderson was commissioned into the Royal Horse Artillery in 1876....
  
   - GOC Corps
• Nelson Graham Anderson - DA&QMG
• Stuart Milligan Anderson - CRA
• Warren Hastings Anderson - MGGS
• Brigadier-General A.T. Anderson
• Lieutenant-General Hastings Anderson
  Hastings Anderson
  Lieutenant General Sir Hastings Anderson KCB was Quartermaster-General to the Forces.-Military career:Educated at Marlborough College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Anderson was commissioned into the Cheshire Regiment in 1890.He fought in the Second Boer War becoming Deputy Assistant...
  
  
• Brigadier Andrew Anderson (1890- )
• Major-General Alexander Vass Anderson (1895–1963)
• Lieutenant-General Sir Desmond Francis Anderson
  Desmond Anderson
  For cricketer see Desmond Anderson Lieutenant-General Sir Desmond Francis Anderson, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO was a British officer in both World War I and World War II.-World War I:...
  
   (1885–1967)
• Brigadier Sir Duncan Anderson (1901–1980)
• Brigadier Sir Gilmour Menzies Anderson (1914–1977)
• General Sir John D'Arcy Anderson (1908–1988)
• General Sir Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson
  Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson
  General Sir Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, KCB, MC was a British Army officer in both the First and Second World Wars. He is mainly remembered as the commander of the First Army during Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of Tunisia. He had an outwardly reserved character and did not court...
  
   (1891–1959)
• Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Neville Anderson
  Richard Anderson (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant General Sir Richard Neville Anderson KCB CBE DSO was a British Army General who achieved high office in the 1960s.-Military career:...
  
   (1907–1979)
• Brigadier Robert Charles Beckett Anderson (1895–1982)
• Brigadier Reginald Wood Andrews (1897–1978)
• Brigadier Tom Hardy Angus (1899–1984)
• Brigadier Seymour Willoughby Anketell-Jones (1898- )
• Barnett Dyer Lempriere Gray Anley - GOC Infantry Brigade
• Frederick Gore Anley - GOC Infantry Brigade
• William Bower Anley - CHA
• Brigadier Francis Dighton Annesley (1888–1983)
• Major General Edward Anson
  Edward Anson
  Major General Archibald Edward Harbord Anson KCMG, was born on 16 April 1826 with a twin sister at 32 Devonshire Place. He was the youngest son of Major General Sir William Anson, 1st Baronet Anson K.C.B. and his mother was from the Dickenson family...
  
  
• Major General George Anson, CB (1797–1857)
• General Sir George Anson, GCB (1769–1849)
• General Sir William Anson, 1st Baronet
  Sir William Anson, 1st Baronet
  General Sir William Anson, 1st Baronet KCB was a general in the British Army noted for his service in Peninsular WarThe Anson Baronetcy was created for him on 30 September 1831....
  
  
• Brigadier Sir John Anstey
  John Anstey
  John Antsey was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.He won the Waitaki electorate in 1914, but was defeated in 1919.He was later on the Legislative Council.-References:...
  
   (1907–2000)
• Brigadier John Henry Anstice
  John Henry Anstice
  Brigadier John Henry Anstice DSO & bar was an officer in the British Army during World War II.-Military career:John Anstice was commissioned into the Royal Armoured Corps on 7 April 1916 and from August that year he saw service in France and Belgium until the end of World War I. In October 1922,...
  
   (1897–1970)
• Lieutenant-General Philip Anstruther
• John Macquarie Antill - GOC Infantry Brigade
• Brigadier Sir Richard Hamilton Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, Baronet (1908–1985)
• Lieutenant_General Dick Applegate
  Dick Applegate
  Lieutenant General Richard Arthur David Applegate CB OBE is a former Quartermaster-General and Master-General of the Ordnance to the Army. He left the British Army in October 2010 and is now a Director of Eagle Strategic Consulting Ltd....
  
  
• Brigadier Gilbert Leonard Appleton (1894–1970)
• Major-General Kenelm Charles Appleyard (1894–1967)
• Major-General Frederick Ernest Appleyard
  Frederick Ernest Appleyard
  Major General Frederick Ernest Appleyard CB was a British Army commander that served in numerous Victorian Era military campaigns including the Crimean War and the Second Anglo-Afghan War....
  
  
• Henry Edward Ap Rhys Pryce - GOC Infantry Brigade
• Brigadier-General Alexander George Arbuthnot (1873-)
• Lieutenant-General Sir Charles George Arbuthnot, GCB
  Charles George Arbuthnot
  Sir Charles George Arbuthnot GCB was a British Army officer. He served in the Royal Artillery in the Crimean War and rose to become a lieutenant general in British India....
  
   (1824–1899)
• General Charles George James Arbuthnot
  Charles George James Arbuthnot
  General Charles George James Arbuthnot, DL was a British general.Arbuthnot was born at sea aboard the frigate Juno and raised at Woodford, Northamptonshire. His father, Charles Arbuthnot, was a prominent Tory politician and confidant of the Duke of Wellington...
  
  
• Brigadier-General Sir Dalrymple Arbuthnot, 5th Bt - CRA
• George Alexander Arbuthnot
• George Bingham Arbuthnot
• Henry Thomas Arbuthnot
• Sir Hugh Arbuthnot
• Major-General Robert Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott
  Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott
  Major General Robert Keith Arbuthnott, 15th Viscount of Arbuthnott CB, CBE, DSO, MC. .He was educated at Fettes College and RMC Sandhurst. He served in both World Wars and was mentioned in despatches...
  
   (1900–1980)
• Sir Robert Arbuthnot, KCB
  Robert Arbuthnot
  General Sir Robert Arbuthnot, KCB, was born at Rockfleet Castle, County Mayo, Ireland, on 19 November 1773 fourth son of John Arbuthnot Senior of Rockfleet, Co Mayo. He was a General in the army, a colonel in the 76th Regiment. He was a Brigadier General in the Portuguese Service and was appointed...
  
  
• Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, KCB
  Thomas Arbuthnot
  Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Arbuthnot KCB was a British Army commander.-Military career:He was born in Rockfleet Castle, County Mayo, Ireland, the sixth son of John Arbuthnot, Sr of Rockfleet....
  
  
• William Arbuthnot, Royal Artillery
• William Arbuthnot, 14th Hussars
• Major-General St. John Desmond Arcedeckne-Butler (1896–1959)
• Brigadier Arthur Somerville Archdale (1882–1948)
• General John Archer
  John Archer (British Army officer)
  General Sir John Archer KCB OBE is a former Commander in Chief, UK Land Forces.-Army career:Educated at King's School, Peterborough and St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, John Archer was commissioned into the Royal Norfolk Regiment in 1944...
  
  
• Brigadier Henry Archer
  Henry Archer
  Henry Archer was the son of an Irish landowner and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was called to the Irish Bar and spent most of his time between North Wales and London.- Ffestiniog Railway :...
  
   (1883–1970)
• Brigadier Brian Mortimer Archibald (1906–1993)
• Brigadier Gordon King Archibald (1885–1942)
• Major-General Sidney Charles Manley Archibald (1890–1973)
• Reginald Le Normand Brabazon, Lord Ardee - GOC Infantry Brigade
• Brigadier Philip Alexander Arden (1892- )
• Brigadier Eustace Alford Arderne (1899- )
• General John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll
  John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll
  General John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll KT PC was a Scottish Whig politician in the 17th and 18th centuries.He was born to John Campbell, the third son of Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll, and Elizabeth Elphinstone, daughter of John Elphinstone, 8th Lord Elphinstone...
  
  
• Major-General Robert Henry Bertram Arkwright (1903–1971)
• General Sir Charles Clement Armitage (1881–1973)
• Brigadier Edward Leathley Armitage ( -1957)
• Edward Hume Armitage - CRA
• Charles Johnstone Armstrong - Chief Engineer
• Brigadier Charles Douglas Armstrong (1897–1985)
• Brigadier Edward Francis Egerton Armstrong (1890- )
• Brigadier John Cardew Armstrong (1887–1953)
• Major-General John Armstrong
  John Armstrong (surveyor)
  Major-General John Armstrong was a British Engineer and Soldier.-Military career:Armstrong joined the Williamite Army of Ireland in 1691...
  
  
• Brigadier Sereld John Armstrong (1894- )
• Brigadier Walter Johnston Armstrong (1907- )
• Major-General Richard Armstrong
• George Ayscough Armytage - GOC Infantry Brigade
• Brigadier Harry William Hugh Armytage (1890- )
• Major-General Allan Cholmondeley Arnold (1893–1962)
• General Benedict Arnold
  Benedict Arnold
  Benedict Arnold V was a general during the American Revolutionary War. He began the war in the Continental Army but later defected to the British Army. While a general on the American side, he obtained command of the fort at West Point, New York, and plotted to surrender it to the British forces...
  
  
• Major-General Stanley Arnott (1888–1972)
• Lieutenant-General Sir George Arthur, 1st Baronet
• Brigadier Sir Robert Duncan Harris Arundell (1904–1989)
• General Sir Charles Asgill, 2nd Baronet
  Sir Charles Asgill, 2nd Baronet
  Sir Charles Asgill 2nd Baronet GCH was a career soldier in the British Army. Asgill enjoyed a long military career, eventually rising to the rank of General...
  
  
• Brigadier Edwin Raymond Ash (1897- )
• Lionel Forbes Ashburner - GOC Infantry Brigade
• Major-General Cromer Ashburnham
  Cromer Ashburnham
  Major-General Sir Cromer Ashburnham was a British Army officer.He was born in 1831, the fourth son of Sir John Ashburnham, 7th Baronet, and joined the Army in 1855, commissioned in the 60th Rifles. He served during the Indian Mutiny, and commanded the 2nd Battalion of the regiment during the...
  
  
• General William Ashe-à Court
  William Ashe-à Court
  William Ashe-à Court was a British military commander and Member of Parliament.Born William à Court, he was the son of Pierce à Court and Elizabeth Ashe. He achieved the rank of General in the British Army and also sat as Member of Parliament for Heytesbury between 1751 and 1781. In 1768 he...
  
  
• Brigadier Brenton Haliburton Ashmore (1900- )
• Major-General Edward Ashmore
  Edward Ashmore (British Army officer)
  Major General Edward Bailey Ashmore CB, CMG, MVO was a British Army officer from the 1890s to the 1920s who served in the Royal Artillery, the Royal Flying Corps and briefly in the Royal Air Force before founding and developing the organisation that would become the Royal Observer Corps.-Early...
  
   - GOC RFC Brigade and CRA
• Brigadier Harold Kenneth Ashworth (1903–1978)
• Brigadier-General Henry Francis Askwith - BGRA
• Major-General Alfred Rimbault Aslett (1901–1980)
• Cecil Faber Aspinall - BGGS
• Arthur Melland Asquith - GOC Infantry Brigade
• Joseph John Asser - IG Communications
• Sir George Aston - GOC Infantry Division
• Llewellyn William Atcherley - DA&QMG
• Major-General Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone
  Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone
  Major-General Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone , was a close relative of the shared British and Canadian royal family, as well as a British military commander and major-general who served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, the...
  
   - Head of British Mission Belgian GQG
• Ben Atkinson - DA&QMG
• Edwin Henry De Vere Atkinson - Chief Engineer
• Brigadier-General John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl
  John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl
  Colonel John George Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl KT GCVO CB DSO PC ADC , styled Marquess of Tullibardine until 1917, was a Scottish soldier and Conservative politician.-Early life:...
  
  
• Brigadier Robert Ringrose Gelston Atkins (1891- )
• Brigadier David John Atkinson
  David John Atkinson
  The Rt Rev. David John Atkinson is the former Bishop of Thetford. He was born on 5 September 1943 and educated at Maidstone Grammar School and King's College London. After a short career as a chemistry teacher he was ordained in 1973...
  
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• Brigadier Charles John Attfield (1898- )
• Brigadier Herbert Arthur Reginald Aubrey (1883–1954)
• Samuel Auchmuty
• James Touchet, 5th Baron Audley
• Brigadier Edward Gordon Audland (1896–1976)
• Major-General Arthur Bramston Austin (1893–1967)
• Brigadier Richard Andrew Austin (1892- )
• Brigadier Geoffrey William Auten (1896- )
• Brigadier Alec Pendock Aveline (1897–1982)
• Sir Fenton Aylmer, 13th Baronet
• Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer
  Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer
  ‎Matthew Whitworth-Aylmer, 5th Baron Aylmer was a British military officer and colonial administrator.- Napoleonic Wars :...
  
  

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• William Babtie
  William Babtie
  Lieutenant General Sir William Babtie VC KCB KCMG was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth armed forces...
  
  
• Anthony Bacon
  Anthony Bacon (British Army officer)
  Major General Anthony Bacon was a notable cavalry officer and commander in the Napoleonic wars.-Family background:Bacon was born at Llandaff in Glamorgan, the son of Anthony Bushby Bacon of Elcot Park at Kintbury and Benham Park at Marsh Benham in Speen near Newbury in Berkshire, one of the...
  
  
• Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
  Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
  Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, Bt, OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB , also known as B-P or Lord Baden-Powell, was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, and founder of the Scout Movement....
  
  
• General Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
  General Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet GCB was a British military leader.-Military career:He was born at Newbyth House in Haddingtonshire, Scotland, the son of an Edinburgh merchant family, and entered the British Army in 1772. He was sent to India in 1779 with the 73rd Highlanders, in which he...
  
   6 Dec 1757 - 18 Aug 1829
• Thomas Durand Baker
  Thomas Durand Baker
  Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Durand Baker KCB was a British army officer, and Quartermaster-General to the Forces.-Military career:...
  
  
• Robert Balfour, 6th of Balbirnie
  Robert Balfour, 6th of Balbirnie
  Lieutenant-General Robert Balfour, 6th of Balbirnie Was an Officer in the 2nd Dragoons and the Fife Light Horse.He was the son of John Balfour, 5th of Balbirnie and Ellen Gordon ....
  
  
• Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres
• Nisbet Balfour
  Nisbet Balfour
  Major-General Nisbet Balfour was a British soldier in the American War of Independence and later a Scottish Member of Parliament in the British Parliament....
  
  
• Philip Balfour
  Philip Balfour
  Lieutenant General Sir Philip Maxwell Balfour KBE CB MC was a British Army General who achieved high office in the 1950s.-Military career:...
  
  
• Colin Robert Ballard
  Colin Robert Ballard
  Brigadier-General Colin Robert Ballard, CB, CMG was a Brigadier-General in the British Army, a knight of the Order of the Star of Romania, recipient of the collar of the Order of Carol I and a military author...
  
  
• John Archibald Ballard
  John Archibald Ballard
  Lieutenant General John Archibald Ballard CB LLD RE was a British soldier. He was born in Portbury, Somerset, the second son of George Ballard, a Calcutta Merchant, and Jane Tod daughter of Alexander Tod and Charlote Bruere...
  
  
• Colin Muir Barber
  Colin Muir Barber
  Sir Colin Muir Barber, KBE, CB, DSO and bar , was a British General who commanded the 15th Division during their actions across north west Europe in World War II...
  
  
• Evelyn Barker
  Evelyn Barker
  General Sir Evelyn Hugh Barker KCB KBE DSO MC was a British Army general in World War II, and commander of British forces in the Mandate Palestine from 1946 to 1947...
  
  
• George Digby Barker
  George Digby Barker
  General Sir George Digby Barker GCB was a British soldier and colonial administrator.-Military career:...
  
  
• George Robert Barker
  George Robert Barker
  Brigadier-General Sir George Robert Barker KCB was a British soldier.Born in London, he was the youngest son of John Barker, a former deputy-storekeeper general in HM Treasury. Barker was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and joined the Royal Artillery in 1834. After the Crimean War...
  
  
• Michael Barker
• Andrew Barnard
  Andrew Barnard
  General Sir Andrew Francis Barnard, GCB, GCH was an Irish-born, British Army officer. He served in various capacities in the West Indies, the Cape of Good Hope, Canada, the Netherlands, Sicily, Spain and in the Napoleonic Wars including the Battle of Waterloo for which service he was highly...
  
  
• Edward Barnes
  Edward Barnes (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant General Sir Edward Barnes, GCB was a British soldier who became governor of Ceylon.-Military career:Barnes joined the 47th Regiment of Foot in 1792, and quickly rose to field rank. He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1807, serving in the Invasion of Martinique in 1809, and colonel...
  
  
• Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
  General Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet GCB was a British military leader.-Military career:He was born at Newbyth House in Haddingtonshire, Scotland, the son of an Edinburgh merchant family, and entered the British Army in 1772. He was sent to India in 1779 with the 73rd Highlanders, in which he...
  
  
• Arthur Barrett
  Arthur Barrett (Indian Army officer)
  Field Marshal Sir Arthur Arnold Barrett GCB GCSI KCVO ADC was a British officer of the Indian Army.-Early life and service:Barrett was born in Carshalton, Surrey , the son of a clergyman...
  
  
• Harry Barron
  Harry Barron
  Major General Sir Harry Barron KCMG, CVO was Governor of Tasmania from 1909 to 1913, and Governor of Western Australia from 1913 to 1917....
  
  
• Arthur Edward Barstow
  Arthur Edward Barstow
  Major-General Arthur Edward "Bustling Bill" Barstow CIE MC was an officer in the Indian Army and commanded the Indian 9th Infantry Division during the Battle of Malaya. He was killed by the Japanese on 28 January 1942 while trying to cross a demolished railway bridge near Layang Layang village...
  
  
• Charles St Leger Barter
  Charles St Leger Barter
  Charles St Leger Barter, , KCB, KCMG, CVO, was a career British Army officer.Charles Barter was the son of the Rev J T Barter of Bercham, Co Cork. A graduate of Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he began his military career with a commission in the 105th Foot in 1875...
  
  
• William Bartholomew
  William Bartholomew
  General Sir William Henry Bartholomew GCB CMG DSO ADC was a British General during the Second World War and former Colonel Commandant to the Royal Artillery.-Army career:...
  
  
• Edric Bastyan
  Edric Bastyan
  Lieutenant-General Sir Edric Montague Bastyan, KCMG, KCVO, KBE, CB was Governor of South Australia from 4 April 1961 until 1 June 1968 then Governor of Tasmania from 2 December 1968 until 30 November 1973...
  
  
• Hugh Beach
  Hugh Beach
  General Sir Hugh Beach, GBE, KCB, MC is a British soldier who, in retirement, researches and advises on defence policy, arms control and disarmament, with an active interest in promoting concerns about ethical issues of peace and war....
  
  
• Daniel Marcus William Beak
  Daniel Marcus William Beak
  Major-General Daniel Marcus William Beak, VC, DSO, MC & Bar was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-1915–1917:He initially joined the Royal Naval Volunteer...
  
  
• Edmund Charles Beard
  Edmund Charles Beard
  Edmund Charles Beard CB CBE MC was a British Major-General during the Second World War and in 1946 aide-de-camp to the king, George VI.-Early career:...
  
  
• William Beckett
  William Beckett (engineer)
  Brigadier-General William Thomas Clifford Beckett CBE DSO VD was a British railway engineer in India and a British Army officer....
  
  
• George Beckwith
  George Beckwith (British Army officer)
  General Sir George Beckwith KB was a British Army officer.-Military career:Beckwith was commissioned into the 37th Regiment of Foot in 1771. He distinguished himself as a regimental officer in the American Revolutionary War, where he was assistant to Major Oliver Delancey responsible for British...
  
  
• Thomas Sydney Beckwith
  Thomas Sydney Beckwith
  Sir Thomas Sydney Beckwith, KCB was an officer of the British army who served as quartermaster general of the British forces in Canada during the War of 1812, and a commander-in-chief at Mumbai during the British Raj...
  
  
• Merton Beckwith-Smith
  Merton Beckwith-Smith
  Major-General Merton Beckwith-Smith DSO MC MA was a British Army officer during the First and Second World Wars .- Early career :...
  
  
• Edward William Derrington Bell
  Edward William Derrington Bell
  Major General Edward William Derrington Bell VC CB was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
  
  
• John Bellasis
• Sir Edward Bellingham, 5th Baronet
  Sir Edward Bellingham, 5th Baronet
  Brigadier-General Sir Edward Henry Charles Patrick Bellingham, 5th Baronet CMG, DSO was an Irish soldier, politician and finally diplomat.-Background and education:...
  
  
• Harcourt Mortimer Bengough
  Harcourt Mortimer Bengough
  Major General Sir Harcourt Mortimer Bengough KCB joined the British Army in 1855, and retired in 1899, after more than forty years of distinguished service from the Crimea to all quarters of the Empire.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Henry Roxby Benson
  Henry Roxby Benson
  Henry Roxby Benson was a 19th century British General. Born into a distinguished Welsh family he was gazetted into the 17th Lancers in 1840 and rose steadily until he commanded the regiment in the field during the Crimean War. Subsequent service in India lead to further promotions, notably ...
  
  
• William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford
  William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford
  General William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, 1st Marquis of Campo Maior, GCB, GCH, GCTE, PC , was a British soldier and politician...
  
  
• Noel Beresford-Peirse
  Noel Beresford-Peirse
  Lieutenant-General Sir Noel Monson de la Poer Beresford-Peirse KBE, CB, DSO was a British Army officer.-Family background:...
  
  
• George Berkeley
  George Berkeley (general)
  General Sir George Henry Frederick Berkeley KCB was a British soldier and Conservative politician.-Background:...
  
  
• Horatio Pettus Mackintosh Berney-Ficklin
  Horatio Pettus Mackintosh Berney-Ficklin
  Major-General Horatio Pettus Mackintosh Berney-Ficklin CB MC was a British Army officer who served in World War I and World War II.-Military career:...
  
  
• Robert Biddulph
  Robert Biddulph (British Army officer)
  General Sir Robert Biddulph GCB GCMG was Quartermaster-General to the Forces.-Military career:Educated at Twyford School and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Biddulph was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1853. He served in the Crimean War and was present at the Siege of Sevastopol in...
  
  
• Peter de la Billière
  Peter de la Billière
  General Sir Peter Edgar de la Cour de la Billière, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC & Bar is a former British Army officer who was Director SAS during the Iranian Embassy Siege and Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in the 1990 Gulf War...
  
  
• George Baillie-Hamilton, Lord Binning
  George Baillie-Hamilton, Lord Binning
  Brigadier-General George Baillie-Hamilton, Lord Binning, CB, MVO was a British Army officer; he was styled "Lord Binning" as a courtesy title....
  
  
• Graham Binns
  Graham Binns
  Major General Graham John Binns CBE DSO MC is a retired British Army officer. Binns served as General Officer Commanding 1st Armoured Division and then Commandant Joint Services Command and Staff College. He had previously commanded the 7th Armoured Brigade during Operation Telic 1 when they took...
  
  
• Noel Birch
  Noel Birch
  General Sir James Frederick Noel Birch KCB KCMG was a British Cavalry Officer during the Second Boer War and World War I and subsequently Master-General of the Ordnance...
  
  
• Christopher Birdwood, 2nd Baron Birdwood
  Christopher Birdwood, 2nd Baron Birdwood
  Christopher Bromhead Birdwood, 2nd Baron Birdwood MVO was a British Hereditary peer, soldier and author.The son of Field Marshal William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood and Janetta Hope Gonville Bromhead . He was baptised at Twickenham, London, England...
  
  
• William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood
  William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood
  Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, CIE, DSO was a First World War British general who is best known as the commander of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915.- Youth and early career :Birdwood was born...
  
  
• Charles Blackadder
• Cecil Blacker
  Cecil Blacker
  General Sir Cecil Hugh Blacker GCB OBE MC was a senior British Army officer and a former Adjutant-General to the Forces.-Military career:...
  
  
• Jeremy Blacker
  Jeremy Blacker
  General Sir Anthony Stephen Jeremy Blacker KCB CBE is a former Master-General of the Ordnance.-Military career:Educated at Sherborne School, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Blacker was commissioned into the Royal Tank Regiment in 1959...
  
  
• Chandos Blair
  Chandos Blair
  Lieutenant General Sir Chandos Blair KCVO OBE MC & Bar was General Officer Commanding Scotland.-Military career:...
  
  
• James Blair
  James Blair (VC)
  General James Blair VC CB was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
  
  
• William Blakeney, 1st Baron Blakeney
  William Blakeney, 1st Baron Blakeney
  William Blakeney, 1st Baron Blakeney KB was an Irish soldier known for his unsuccessful defence of the Spanish island of Minorca following the Battle of Minorca in 1756.-Early life:...
  
  
• Humphrey Bland
  Humphrey Bland
  Lieutenant General Humphrey Bland was a British Army general who commanded the cavalry at the Battle of Culloden.-Military career:Bland was commissioned as an ensign in 1704...
  
  
• Alan Bruce Blaxland
  Alan Bruce Blaxland
  Alan Bruce Blaxland CB OBE was an officer in the British Indian Army during World War II.As part of Paiforce , Brigadier Blaxland commanded the 27th Indian Infantry Brigade of the Indian 6th Infantry Division during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia.In 1942, Blaxland was made an acting...
  
  
• Andrew Blayney, 11th Baron Blayney
  Andrew Blayney, 11th Baron Blayney
  Lieutenant General Andrew Thomas Blayney, 11th Baron Blayney was an Irish peer. He ruled the Blayney estate at Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan for fifty years from 1784 to 1834, and was one of the most illustrious soldiers ever to come from Co...
  
  
• Edward Bligh
  Edward Bligh
  Edward Bligh , styled The Honourable from birth, was an Irish politician, a noted amateur cricketer and a prominent early member of the Marylebone Cricket Club....
  
  
• Thomas Bligh
  Thomas Bligh
  Thomas Bligh was a British soldier, best known for his service during the Seven Years' War when he led a series of amphibious raids, known as "descents" on the French coastline...
  
  
• Sir Thomas Blomefield, 1st Baronet
  Sir Thomas Blomefield, 1st Baronet
  Thomas Blomefield, 1st Baronet Blomefield, was born in February 1774 and died 24 August 1822.He was the son of Reverend Thomas Blomefield and Mary Matthews. When he was 11 years old his father sent Thomas to sea on HMS Cambridge under Sir Peircy Brett, who was a close friend of the Rev. Blomefield...
  
  
• Bindon Blood
  Bindon Blood
  General Sir Bindon Blood GCB was a British military commander who served in Egypt, Afghanistan, India and Africa.-Military career:...
  
  
• Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Baron Bloomfield
  Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Baron Bloomfield
  Lieutenant-General Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Baron Bloomfield GCB GCH was Private Secretary to the Sovereign 1817–1822....
  
  
• John Bloomfield
• Eric Bols
  Eric Bols
  Major-General Eric Louis Bols, CB, DSO and Bar was an officer in the British Army, who was most notable for serving as the commanding officer of the British 6th Airborne Division during Operation Varsity in 1945...
  
  
• Louis Bols
  Louis Bols
  Lieutenant-General Sir Louis Jean Bols KCB, KCMG, DSO was born in Cape Town and educated at Lancing College in England. He was a distinguished British military officer...
  
  
• Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton
  Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton
  Lieutenant-General Charles Powlett , 3rd Duke of Bolton KG PC was a British nobleman and politician....
  
  
• Charles Powlett, 5th Duke of Bolton
  Charles Powlett, 5th Duke of Bolton
  Charles Powlett, 5th Duke of Bolton, KCB, PC , styled Marquess of Winchester from 1754 to 1759, was a British soldier, nobleman and Whig politician. He was the eldest son of Harry Powlett, 4th Duke of Bolton and Catherine Parry.Educated at Winchester, he joined the British Army and became a...
  
  
• Lionel Vivian Bond
  Lionel Vivian Bond
  Lieutenant-General Sir Lionel Vivian Bond, KBE, CB was a senior officer in the British Army.-Military career:Born the son of Sir Major-General Francis George Bond , and brother of Major-General Richard Lawrence Bond , Bond was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1903...
  
  
• Charles Hamilton Boucher
  Charles Hamilton Boucher
  Major-General Sir Charles Boucher KBE CB DSO and bar was an officer in the British Indian Army during World War II.-Military career:Boucher was commissioned into the 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles in 1916....
  
  
• Major-General John Boughey, Wiltshire Regt (1845–1932)
• Richard Bourke
  Richard Bourke
  General Sir Richard Bourke, KCB was Governor of the Colony of New South Wales, Australia between 1831 and 1837.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Geoffrey Bourne, Baron Bourne
  Geoffrey Bourne, Baron Bourne
  General Geoffrey Kemp Bourne, Baron Bourne GCB, KBE, CMG was a British soldier.-Military career:Commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1923, Bourne served in Hong Kong from 1930 to 1932, in Gibraltar from 1933 and 1934, in the Staff College, Camberley in 1935 and 1936, and in Colchester in 1937...
  
  
• Roger Bower
• Henry Brackenbury
  Henry Brackenbury
  General Sir Henry Brackenbury, GCB, KCSI was a British army officer who was assistant to Garnet Wolseley in the 1870s and became part of his 'Ring' of loyal officers. He also wrote several books of military history and memoirs....
  
  
• Edward Braddock
  Edward Braddock
  General Edward Braddock was a British soldier and commander-in-chief for the 13 colonies during the actions at the start of the French and Indian War...
  
  
• Roland Boys Bradford
  Roland Boys Bradford
  Brigadier General Roland Boys Bradford VC MC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces...
  
  
• Adrian Bradshaw
  Adrian Bradshaw
  Major General Adrian John Bradshaw CB OBE was, until April 2011, General Officer Commanding 1st Armoured Division.-Career:Educated at Bloxham School and Reading University, Adrian Bradshaw was commissioned into the 14th/20th King's Hussars in 1980...
  
  
• John Bradstreet
  John Bradstreet
  Major General John Bradstreet was a British Army officer during the French and Indian War, King George's War, and Pontiac's Rebellion...
  
  
• Maj-Gen Sir John Braithwaite, 1st Baronet of Poston (Indian Army)
• Walter Braithwaite
  Walter Braithwaite
  General Sir Walter Pipon Braithwaite, GCB was a British general during World War I. After being dismissed from his position as Chief of Staff for the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, he received some acclaim as a competent divisional commander on the Western Front...
  
  
• Sefton Brancker
  Sefton Brancker
  Air Vice-Marshal Sir William Sefton Brancker KCB AFC , commonly known as Sir Sefton Brancker, was a pioneer in British civil and military aviation.-Early life:...
  
  
• Robert Bray
  Robert Bray (British Army officer)
  General Sir Robert Napier Hubert Campbell Bray, GBE, KCB, DSO and bar was a British soldier, deputy Supreme Commander Europe of NATO's Allied Command Europe from 1967 to 1970.-Education:...
  
  
• Robert Bridgeman, 2nd Viscount Bridgeman
  Robert Bridgeman, 2nd Viscount Bridgeman
  Major-General Robert Clive Bridgeman, 2nd Viscount Bridgeman KBE, CB, DSO, MC, JP , styled The Honourable between 1929 and 1935, was a British peer and soldier.-Background:...
  
  
• Charles James Briggs
  Charles James Briggs
  Lieutenant-General Sir Charles James Briggs KCB KCMG was a British Army officer who held high command in World War I.-Military career:...
  
  
• Harold Rawdon Briggs
  Harold Rawdon Briggs
  Lieutenant-General Sir Rawdon Briggs KCIE KBE CB DSO and two bars was an officer in the British Indian Army during World War I, World War II and the post-war era.Field Marshal Viscount William Slim said of him-Early life:...
  
  
• Robin Brims
  Robin Brims
  Lieutenant General Robin Vaughan Brims CB, CBE, DSO is a retired British Army officer. He was Commander of the Field Army at Land Command from 2005 to 2007.- Early life :...
  
  
• Thomas Brisbane
  Thomas Brisbane
  Major-General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, 1st Baronet GCH, GCB, FRS, FRSE was a British soldier, colonial Governor and astronomer.-Early life:...
  
  
• Major General Horton Brisco, Coldstream Guards and/or EICS
• Charles Broad
  Charles Broad
  Lieutenant General Sir Charles Noel Frank Broad KCB DSO was a British Army General during World War II.-Military career:Educated at Cambridge University, Broad was commissioned in 1904 and went to the Staff College, Camberley in 1914....
  
  
• Robert George Broadwood
  Robert George Broadwood
  Lieutenant General Robert George Broadwood, CB was Commander of British Troops in South China.-Military career:Robert was the third son and child of Thomas Broadwood and Mary Athlea Matthews and a grandson of John Broadwood the founder of the Broadwood Piano Company...
  
  
• Maj-Gen Sir Isaac Brock
  Isaac Brock
  Major-General Sir Isaac Brock KB was a British Army officer and administrator. Brock was assigned to Canada in 1802. Despite facing desertions and near-mutinies, he commanded his regiment in Upper Canada successfully for many years...
  
  , of Guernsey. October 6, 1769 to Oct 13, 1812
• Thomas Brodie
  Thomas Brodie
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• Joseph Brome
  Joseph Brome
  Major-General Joseph Brome was Master Gunner, St James's Park, the most senior Ceremonial Post in the Royal Artillery after the Sovereign.-Military career:Brome joined the British Army as a drummer boy aged eight years...
  
  
• William Bromley-Davenport
• Robert Brooke-Popham
  Robert Brooke-Popham
  Air Chief Marshal Sir Henry Robert Moore Brooke-Popham, GCVO, KCB, CMG, DSO, AFC, was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force. During World War I he served in the Royal Flying Corps as wing commander and senior staff officer...
  
  
• Chris Brown
  Chris Brown (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant-General Christopher Charles Brown CBE was the last General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland.-Military career:Educated at Brentwood School and University College, Cardiff, Brown was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1974....
  
  
• George Brown
• Edward Stevenson Browne
  Edward Stevenson Browne
  Brigadier General Edward Stevenson Browne VC CB was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:He was 26 years old, and a Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion,...
  
  
• James Browne
• Montfort Browne
  Montfort Browne
  Montfort Browne was a British Army officer and Tory, and a major landowner and developer of British West Florida in the 1760s and 1770s. He commanded the Prince of Wales' American Regiment, a Loyalist regiment, in the American Revolutionary War...
  
  
• Sam Browne
  Sam Browne
  General Sir Samuel James Browne VC GCB KCSI was a British Indian Army cavalry officer in India and the Afghanistan, best known today as the namesake of the Sam Browne belt...
  
  
• Frederick Browning
  Frederick Browning
  Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Arthur Montague Browning GCVO, KBE, CB, DSO was a British Army officer who has been called the "father of the British airborne forces". He is best known as the commander of the I Airborne Corps and deputy commander of First Allied Airborne Army during Operation...
  
  
• Nevil Brownjohn
  Nevil Brownjohn
  General Sir Nevil Charles Dowell Brownjohn GBE KCB CMG MC was Quartermaster-General to the Forces.-Military career:Brownjohn was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1915: he served in World War I...
  
  
• Charles Henry Brownlow
  Charles Henry Brownlow
  Field Marshal Sir Charles Henry Brownlow KCB was a senior British Army officer.-Military career:Brownlow was commissioned into the Bengal Army in 1847...
  
  
• Robert Brownrigg
  Robert Brownrigg
  General Sir Robert Brownrigg, 1st Baronet GCB was a British statesman and soldier.-Military career:Brownrigg was commissioned as an ensign in 1775...
  
  
• Charles Granville Bruce
  Charles Granville Bruce
  Brigadier-General Charles Granville Bruce, CB, MVO was a Himalayan veteran and leader of the second and third British expeditions to Mount Everest in 1922 and 1924.-Background and early life:...
  
  
• Roy Bucher
  Roy Bucher
  General Sir Roy Bucher KBE CB MC was Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army.-Military career:Educated at the Edinburgh Academy, Bucher served in World War I with 1st Bn Cameronians in France from 1914 to 1915 when he joined the 55th Cokes Rifles in India...
  
  
• Gerard Bucknall
  Gerard Bucknall
  Lieutenant General Gerard Corfield Bucknall, CB, MC was a British Army officer and corps commander during World War II.-Military career:...
  
  
• Edward Bulfin
  Edward Bulfin
  Lieutenant General Sir Edward Stanislaus Bulfin KCB CVO was a British general during World War I, where he established a reputation as an excellent commander at the brigade, divisional and corps levels...
  
  
• Redvers Buller
  Redvers Buller
  General Sir Redvers Henry Buller VC GCB GCMG was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
  
  
• Sir Henry Bunbury, 7th Baronet
• Edward Burgess
  Edward Burgess (British Army officer)
  General Sir Edward Arthur Burgess KCB OBE is a British Army General who served as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe.-Military career:Educated at Bloxham School, Edward Burgess was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1948....
  
  
• John Burgoyne
  John Burgoyne
  General John Burgoyne was a British army officer, politician and dramatist. He first saw action during the Seven Years' War when he participated in several battles, mostly notably during the Portugal Campaign of 1762....
  
  
• Edwyn Sherard Burnaby
  Edwyn Sherard Burnaby
  Edwyn Sherard Burnaby was a major-general and Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Leicestershire North from 1880 until his death. He served in the Crimean War.He was the son of Edwyn Burnaby and Anne Caroline Salisbury....
  
  
• Charles Burnett
  Charles Burnett (British Army officer)
  General Sir Charles John Burnett KCB KCVO was a British Army General during the early years of the twentieth century.-Military career:Burnett was commissioned into the 15th Foot in 1861....
  
  
• John Burnett-Stuart
  John Burnett-Stuart
  General Sir John Theodosius Burnett-Stuart GCB KBE CMG DSO was a British Army General in the 1930s.-Military career:Educated at Repton School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, John Burnett-Stuart was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in 1895. He saw service on the North West Frontier of...
  
  
• George Burns
  George Burns (British Army officer)
  Major-General Sir Walter Arthur George Burns GCVO, CB, DSO, OBE, KStJ, MC was a British Army officer and native of Hertfordshire.-Military career:Burns was born in January 1911 and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge...
  
  
• Sir Harry Burrard, 1st Baronet, of Lymington
• Brocas Burrows
  Brocas Burrows
  Lieutenant General Brocas Burrows CB DSO MC was Commander-in-Chief of West Africa Command of the British Army from 1945 to 1946.-Military career:...
  
  
• George Burrows
• Lieutenant General Sir Edmund Burton
• Ralph Burton
  Ralph Burton
  Ralph Burton was a British soldier and Canadian settler.Burton's military career began in the 2nd Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards, where he rose to the rank of major, serving under George Augustus Eliott, the defender of Gibraltar...
  
  
• Mervyn Butler
• Richard Butler
  Richard Butler (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant General Sir Richard Harte Keatinge Butler KCB KCMG was a British Army General during World War I.-Military career:Educated at Harrow School and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Butler was commissioned into the Dorset Regiment in 1890.He served in the Second Boer War and then became...
  
  
• William Francis Butler
  William Francis Butler
  Lieutenant-General Sir William Francis Butler GCB PC was an Irish 19th-century British Army officer, writer, and adventurer.-Military career:...
  
  
• Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy
  Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy
  Field Marshal Julian Hedworth George Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy was a British Army officer who served as Governor General of Canada, the 12th since Canadian Confederation....
  
  
• Charles Broke Vere

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• William Martin Cafe
  William Martin Cafe
  General William Martin Cafe VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
  
  
• David Campbell
  David Campbell (British Army officer)
  General Sir David Graham Muschet "Soarer" Campbell GCB was a cavalry officer of the British Army, amateur sportsman, and later Governor of Malta....
  
  
• John Charles Campbell
  John Charles Campbell
  Major-General John Charles "Jock" Campbell VC, DSO & Bar, MC was a Scottish officer in the British Army, recipient of the Victoria Cross.-History:Campbell was born in Thurso...
  
  
• John Vaughan Campbell
  John Vaughan Campbell
  Brigadier-General John Vaughan Campbell VC CMG DSO was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.Campbell was 39 years old, and a temporary lieutenant-colonel in...
  
  
• William Pitcairn Campbell
  William Pitcairn Campbell
  Lieutenant General Sir William Pitcairn Campbell KCB was a British Army General during World War I.-Military career:...
  
  
• John Capper
  John Capper
  Major-General Sir John Edward Capper KCB KCVO was a senior officer of the British Army during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century who served on the North-West Frontier of British India, in South Africa and during the First World War, where he was instrumental in the development of the...
  
  
• Thompson Capper
  Thompson Capper
  Major General Sir Thompson Capper KCMG CB DSO was a highly decorated and senior British Army officer who served with distinction in the Second Boer War and was a divisional commander during the First World War...
  
  
• John Carnac
  John Carnac
  Brigadier-General John Carnac was a British officer who served three times as Commander-in-Chief of India.-Military career:...
  
  
• Arthur Dalzell, 13th Earl of Carnwath
  Arthur Dalzell, 13th Earl of Carnwath
  Arthur Edward Dalzell, 13th Earl of Carnwath CB was a British Army officer and a Representative Peer of Scotland....
  
  
• Laurence Carr
  Laurence Carr
  Lieutenant General Laurence Carr CB OBE DSO was a British Army General during World War II.-Military career:Laurence Carr was commissioned into the Gordon Highlanders in 1915....
  
  
• Harold Carrington
  Harold Carrington
  Lieutenant General Sir Robert Harold Carrington KCB DSO was a British Army General during World War II.-Military career:Harold Carrington was commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery in 1901; he served in the Second Boer War between 1901 and 1902 and then transferred to the Royal Horse...
  
  
• Charles Frederick Carson
  Charles Frederick Carson
  Brigadier-General Sir Charles Frederick Carson CBE, MC was a Canadian born and educated soldier who served with the British Army in Canada, India and Persia-Iraq.-Education:...
  
  
• George Carter-Campbell
  George Carter-Campbell
  Major-General George Tupper Campbell Carter-Campbell CB, DSO , was commissioned in October 1889 as second-lieutenant in the Cameronians 2nd Scottish Rifles and served in the Second Boer War as adjutant of that battalion, being promoted Brevet Major and twice mentioned in despatches.On the outbreak...
  
  
• Adrian Carton de Wiart
  Adrian Carton de Wiart
  Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO , was a British officer of Belgian and Irish descent...
  
  
• James Cassels
• Robert Cassels
  Robert Cassels
  General Sir Robert Archibald Cassels GCB GCSI DSO was an Indian Army officer.-Military career:Cassels was commissioned into Indian Staff Corps in 1896. He went on to serve in World War I...
  
  
• Frederick Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan
  Frederick Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan
  Field Marshal Frederick Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan, KP, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE was a British Army officer and Chief of the Imperial General Staff.-Army career:...
  
  
• Richard Lambart, 6th Earl of Cavan
  Richard Lambart, 6th Earl of Cavan
  Lieutenant-General Richard Lambart, 6th Earl of Cavan was an Anglo-Irish peer and soldier.He succeeded Ford Lambart, 5th Earl of Cavan to the earldom and was succeeded by Richard Lambart, 7th Earl of Cavan.-References:...
  
  
• William Frederick Cavaye
  William Frederick Cavaye
  Major-General William Frederick Cavaye was a British military officer and Municipal Reform Party politician....
  
  
• William Orfeur Cavenagh
  William Orfeur Cavenagh
  Major General Sir Orfeur Cavenagh KCSI was the last India-appointed Governor of the Straits Settlements, who governed the Straits Settlements from 1859 to 1867.Singapore's Cavenagh Bridge is named in honour of the governor...
  
  
• Alfred Cavendish
  Alfred Cavendish
  Brigadier General Alfred Edward John Cavendish CMG was a British Army general who served in the South African War and First World War as a staff officer....
  
  
• Crawford Chamberlain
  Crawford Chamberlain
  Sir Crawford Trotter Chamberlain GCIE CSI was a General of the Indian Staff Corps. He was the son of Sir Henry Chamberlain, 1st Baronet and his second wife....
  
  
• Neville Bowles Chamberlain
  Neville Bowles Chamberlain
  Field Marshal Sir Neville Bowles Chamberlain GCB GCSI was a British soldier who served in India.-Military career:...
  
  
• George Nicolas Channer
  George Nicolas Channer
  General George Nicolas Channer VC CB was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
  
  
• John Charteris
  John Charteris
  Brigadier General John Charteris CMG, DSO was a British general during the First World War. He was Sir Douglas Haig's Chief of British Army Intelligence Officer at the British Expeditionary Force's headquarters from 1915 to 1918....
  
  
• Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford
  Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford
  General Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford GCB, GCVO, was a British general, best known for his commanding role during the Anglo-Zulu war. The centre column of his forces was defeated at the Battle of Isandlwana, a crushing victory for the Zulus and the British army's worst ever...
  
  
• Philip Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode
  Philip Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode
  Field Marshal Philip Walhouse Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode, 7th Baronet of Oakley, GCB, OM, GCSI, KCMG, DSO was a British cavalry officer who became Commander in Chief in India.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Wyndham Childs
  Wyndham Childs
  Major-General Sir Borlase Elward Wyndham Childs KCMG KBE CB was a British Army officer who also served as Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 1921 to 1928.-Military career:...
  
  
• Philip Christison
  Philip Christison
  General Sir Philip Christison, 4th Baronet GBE CB DSO MC was a British military commander of the Second World War.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• John George Walters Clark
  John George Walters Clark
  John George Walters Clark CB, MC was a British army officer in both World War I and World War II.-Early life:Clark was commissioned into the 16th The Queen's Lancers in 1911 and fought with them during World War I. In 1917 he was awarded the Military Cross...
  
  
• Travers Clarke
  Travers Clarke
  Lieutenant General Sir Travers Edwards Clarke GBE KCB KCMG was a British Army officer who served in the South African War and the First World War. During the First World War, he held various staff positions; he was Quartermaster-General to the Armies in France from 1917 to 1921, when he became...
  
  
• Gilbert Clayton
  Gilbert Clayton
  Brigadier-General Sir Gilbert Falkingham Clayton, KCMG, KBE, CB , was a British army intelligence officer and colonial administrator, who worked in several countries in the Middle East in the early 20th century. In Egypt, during World War I as an intelligence officer, he supervised those who worked...
  
  
• Major General Sir Henry Hugh Clifford
  Henry Hugh Clifford
  Major General Sir Henry Hugh Clifford VC KCMG CB was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Early life:Clifford was the third son of Hugh Charles Clifford, 7th...
  
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• Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive
  Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive
  Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, KB , also known as Clive of India, was a British officer who established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Bengal. He is credited with securing India, and the wealth that followed, for the British crown...
  
  
• Barry Close
  Barry Close
  Sir Barry Close, 1st Baronet was an officer in the East India Company. As Major General with the Army in India, he served at Tellicherry and at the Siege of Seringapatnam against Tipu Sultan. His ability to negotiate with the King of Mysore led to his appointment as the Resident in the state of...
  
  
• Basil Coad
  Basil Coad
  Major General Basil Aubrey Coad CB CBE DSO & Bar was a senior British Army officer. He held battalion, brigade and divisional commands during the Second World War and immediately after, but is best known as the commander of 27th British Commonwealth Brigade during the Korean War.After his...
  
  
• Alexander Cobbe
  Alexander Cobbe
  General Sir Alexander Stanhope Cobbe VC GCB KCSI DSO was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
  
  
• Alfred Codrington
  Alfred Codrington
  Lieutenant-General Sir Alfred Edward Codrington GCVO KCB was a British Army officer who served in colonial wars in Africa during the late nineteenth century, and later commanded a reserve army during the First World War....
  
  
• Clifford Coffin
  Clifford Coffin
  Major General Clifford Coffin VC, CB, DSO & Bar was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.He was 47 years old, and a temporary brigadier general in the Corps...
  
  
• John Frederick Boyce Combe
  John Frederick Boyce Combe
  Major-General John Frederick Boyce Combe CB DSO & Bar was a British Army officer before and during World War II. He was twice awarded the DSO for his service in the Western Desert Campaign before being captured in April 1941 and spending nearly two and a half years as a prisoner of war in Italy...
  
  
• Walter Norris Congreve
  Walter Norris Congreve
  General Sir Walter Norris Congreve VC KCB MVO DL was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces...
  
  
• James Cooke-Collis
  James Cooke-Collis
  Major-General Sir James Norman Cooke-Collis KBE CB CMG DSO was General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District.-Military career:...
  
  
• George Cooper
  George Cooper (British Army officer)
  General Sir George Leslie Conroy Cooper GCB MC DL is a former Adjutant-General to the Forces.-Military career:Educated at Downside School and Trinity College, Cambridge, George Cooper was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1945. He joined the Bengal Sappers & Miners...
  
  
• John Cooper
  John Cooper (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant General John Cooper CB DSO MBE is a former senior British Army officer. From March 2008 the Deputy Commander of Multinational Force-Iraq , the operational-level headquarters in Iraq, and Senior British Military Representative-Iraq. As Deputy Commander, he was the principal assistant to...
  
  
• Simon Cooper
  Simon Cooper
  Major-General Sir Simon Christie Cooper GCVO was Major-General commanding the Household Division and General Officer Commanding London District and later Master of the Household of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom...
  
  
• Eyre Coote (British Army officer)
• Eyre Coote (East India Company officer)
  Eyre Coote (East India Company officer)
  Lieutenant-General Sir Eyre Coote, KB was an Irish soldier. He is best known for his many years of service with the British Army in India. His victory at the Battle of Wandiwash is considered a decisive turning point in the struggle for control in India between British and France...
  
  
• John Cope
• Patrick Cordingley
  Patrick Cordingley
  Major General Patrick Anthony John Cordingley DSO DSc FRGS is a retired British Army officer who commanded 2nd Division.-Military career:...
  
  
• Roddy Cordy-Simpson
  Roddy Cordy-Simpson
  Lieutenant General Sir Roderick Alexander Cordy-Simpson KBE CB DL is a retired British Army general.-Career:Educated at Radley College, Roddy Cordy-Simpson was commissioned into the 13th/18th Hussars in February 1966....
  
  
• Edmund Boyle, 8th Earl of Cork
  Edmund Boyle, 8th Earl of Cork
  General Edmund Boyle, 8th Earl of Cork and Orrery KP , styled Viscount Dungarvan from 1768 to 1798, was an Irish soldier and peer. He became Earl of Cork and Orrery in 1798 on the death of Edmund Boyle, 7th Earl of Cork and was appointed a Knight of the Order of St Patrick on 22 July 1835....
  
  
• Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
  Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
  Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis KG , styled Viscount Brome between 1753 and 1762 and known as The Earl Cornwallis between 1762 and 1792, was a British Army officer and colonial administrator...
  
  
• Edward Cornwallis
  Edward Cornwallis
  Lieutenant General Edward Cornwallis was a British military officer who founded Halifax, Nova Scotia with 2500 settlers and later served as the Governor of Gibraltar.-Early life:...
  
  
• Edmund Costello
• Arthur Cotton
  Arthur Cotton
  General Sir Arthur Thomas Cotton KCSI was a British general and irrigation engineer.Cotton devoted his life to the construction of irrigation and navigation canals throughout the British Empire in India, however, his dream was only partially realized, but he is still honored in parts of rural...
  
  
• Sydney Cotton
  Sydney Cotton
  Lieutenant-General Sir Sydney John Cotton GCB was a British Army officer.-Military career:He was the second son of Henry Calveley Cotton of Woodcote, Oxfordshire, England, and his wife Matilda, daughter and heiress of John Lockwood of Dews Hall, Essex.He joined the British Army in 1810 as a Cornet...
  
  
• Willoughby Cotton
  Willoughby Cotton
  Lieutenant General Sir Willoughby Cotton GCB, KCH was a British soldier. During his career, Cotton played major roles in the First Anglo–Burmese War, the 1831-32 slave revolt in Jamaica and the First Anglo-Afghan War....
  
  
• Willoughby Cotton
  Willoughby Cotton
  Lieutenant General Sir Willoughby Cotton GCB, KCH was a British soldier. During his career, Cotton played major roles in the First Anglo–Burmese War, the 1831-32 slave revolt in Jamaica and the First Anglo-Afghan War....
  
  
• David Tennant Cowan
  David Tennant Cowan
  Major General David Tennant Cowan CB, CBE, DSO & Bar, MC , also known as "Punch" Cowan, was an officer in the British Army and British Indian Army in World War I and World War II...
  
  
• Samuel Cowan
  Samuel Cowan
  General Sir Samuel Cowan KCB CBE is a former Quartermaster-General to the Forces.-Career:Educated at Lisburn Technology College and the Open University, Cowan was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals in 1963...
  
  
• John Cowans
  John Cowans
  General Sir John Stephen Cowans GCB GCMG MVO was Quartermaster-General to the Forces.-Military career:Educated at Dr Burney's Academy at Gosport, Cowans was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in 1881....
  
  
• Gary Coward
  Gary Coward
  Lieutenant General Gary Robert Coward CB OBE is the current Director of Materiel and Quartermaster-General to the Forces.-Military career:...
  
  
• John Cowley
• Edgar William Cox
  Edgar William Cox
  Brigadier-General Edgar William Cox, DSO, FRGS was a senior intelligence officer on the British General Staff throughout most of the First World War who drowned in suspicious circumstances whilst swimming in August 1918 shortly after the German successes in the Spring Offensive which drove the...
  
  
• Herbert Cox
  Herbert Cox
  General Sir Herbert Vaughan Cox GCB KCMG CSI was a British officer in the Indian Army.Cox was born in Watford, the son of the Rector of Upper Chelsea. He was educated at Charterhouse and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned into the 25th Foot in 1880...
  
  
• Percy Cox
• James Henry Craig
  James Henry Craig
  General Sir James Henry Craig KB was a British military officer and colonial administrator.-Early life and military service:...
  
  
• Charles Craufurd
  Charles Craufurd
  Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Gregan Craufurd GCB was a Scottish soldier.Craufurd was the second son of Sir Alexander Crauford, 1st Baronet , and the elder brother of Robert Craufurd. He entered the 1st Dragoon Guards in 1778. Made captain in the Queen's Bays in 1785, he became the equerry and...
  
  
• Robert Craufurd
  Robert Craufurd
  Major-General Robert Craufurd was a Scottish soldier and Member of Parliament . After a military career which took him from India to the Netherlands, he was given command of the Light Division in the Napoleonic Peninsular War under the Duke of Wellington...
  
  
• William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven
• George Lindsay-Crawford, 22nd Earl of Crawford
  George Lindsay-Crawford, 22nd Earl of Crawford
  Major General George Lindsay-Crawford, 22nd Earl of Crawford , was a Scottish peer and soldier. He served in the British Army and was Lord Lieutenant of Fife....
  
  
• John Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford
  John Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford
  Lieutenant-General John Lindsay, 20th Earl of Crawford was a Scottish peer and the first colonel of the Black Watch on its formation in 1739.He was the son of Lt.-Gen...
  
  
• Kenneth Crawford
  Kenneth Crawford
  General Sir Kenneth Noel Crawford KCB MC was a British Army General who reached high office in the 1940s.-Military career:Crawford was commissioned into the Royal Engineers and went on to serve in World War I being awarded the MC in 1919....
  
  
• O'Moore Creagh
  O'Moore Creagh
  General Sir Garrett O'Moore Creagh VC GCB GCSI , known as Sir O'Moore Creagh, was born in Cahirbane, County Clare and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth...
  
  
• Michael O'Moore Creagh
  Michael O'Moore Creagh
  Major-General Sir Michael O'Moore Creagh KBE MC, was a British soldier who served in both the First and Second World Wars. He commanded the 7th Armoured Division, the Desert Rats, between 1939 and 1941.-Early life:...
  
  
• Timothy Creasey
  Timothy Creasey
  General Sir Timothy May Creasey KCB OBE was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding of the British Army in Northern Ireland, as well as the commander of the Sultan of Oman's Armed Forces....
  
  
• John Crewe, 2nd Baron Crewe
  John Crewe, 2nd Baron Crewe
  John Crewe was an English soldier and peer.He was the son of John Crewe, 1st Baron Crewe, a politician who was created the first Baron Crewe in 1806, and Frances Anne Crewe, the daughter of Fulke Greville, who was a political hostess known for her great beauty...
  
  
• John Crocker
  John Crocker
  General Sir John Tredinnick Crocker GCB, KBE, DSO, MC was a British Army officer and corps commander during the Second World War.- First World War :...
  
  
• Napier Crookenden
  Napier Crookenden
  Lieutenant General Sir Napier Crookenden KCB DSO OBE DL was a British Army General who reached high office in the 1960s.-Military career:...
  
  
• Tim Cross
  Tim Cross
  Major General Timothy Cross, CBE is a retired British Army officer and military logistics expert. He was commissioned in 1971 into the Royal Army Ordnance Corps and went on to serve in Germany, Northern Ireland and Cyprus, interspersed with staff duties and further education...
  
  
• Joseph Crowdy
  Joseph Crowdy
  Major-General Joseph Porter Crowdy, CB, FRIPH was a British soldier and military doctor, and Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps.-Background and education:The son of Lt-Col. Charles R...
  
  
• Alan Cunningham
• Edward Cust
  Edward Cust
  Sir Edward Cust, 1st Baronet, KCH was a British soldier, politician and courtier.Cust was a younger son of the 1st Baron Brownlow and was educated at the Royal Military College...
  
  
• John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts
  John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts
  Lieutenant-General John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts PC , British soldier and author, came from an Essex family.After a short university career at Catharine Hall, Cambridge, he inherited the family estates, but showed a distinct preference for the life of court and camp...
  
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• Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre
  Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre
  Henry Otway Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, CB was a British peer and soldier.Born Henry Otway Brand, he was the second son of Thomas Brand and the 19th Baroness Dacre. In 1806, he married Pyne Crosbie and they had six children:*Hon...
  
  
• George Charles D'Aguilar
  George Charles D'Aguilar
  Major-General Sir George Charles D'Aguilar, KCB was a British Army Major General and Lieutenant Governor of Hong Kong.-Background:...
  
  
• George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie
  George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie
  General George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie GCB , styled Lord Ramsay until 1787, was a Scottish soldier and colonial administrator...
  
  
• Sir John Dalling, 1st Baronet
  Sir John Dalling, 1st Baronet
  General Sir John Dalling, 1st Baronet was a British soldier and colonial administrator.Dalling was the son of John Dalling, of Bungay, Suffolk, by his wife Anne, a daughter of Colonel William Windham of Earsham, Norfolk, who was the second son of William Windham I, of Felbrigg Hall...
  
  
• Sir Hew Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, of High Mark
  Sir Hew Dalrymple, 1st Baronet, of High Mark
  General Sir Hew Whitefoord Dalrymple, 1st Baronet was a British Army general and Governor of Gibraltar.-Military career:...
  
  
• William Dalrymple
• Charles Daniell
  Charles Daniell
  Major-General Charles Frederick Torrens Daniell CB was a British Army General who held high office in the 1880s.-Military career:...
  
  
• Richard Dannatt
• Matthew Darby-Griffith
  Matthew Darby-Griffith
  Matthew Chitty Darby, later Darby-Griffith, was a British soldier and Major-General.He was a son of Vice-Admiral George Darby and Mary daughter of Sir William St Quintin, 4th Baronet...
  
  
• Henry Darling
  Henry Darling
  Major-General Sir Henry Charles Darling KCB . Major General in the British Army. Lt Governor to Tobago ....
  
  
• Kenneth Darling
  Kenneth Darling
  General Sir Kenneth Thomas Darling GBE KCB DSO was a senior British Army officer who was Commander in Chief of Allied Forces Northern Europe from 1967 to 1969.-Early life:...
  
  
• Ralph Darling
  Ralph Darling
  General Sir Ralph Darling, GCH was a British colonial Governor and Governor of New South Wales from 1825 to 1831.-Early career:...
  
  
• Basil Davey
  Basil Davey
  Major-General Basil Davey, CBE, CB commanded the group with principal responsibility for bridging the various major obstacles as part of Operation Market Garden and later became Commandant of the Royal Military College of Science....
  
  
• Sir Henry Ferguson Davie, 1st Baronet
• Francis Davies
  Francis Davies (British Army officer)
  General Sir Francis John Davies KCB KCMG KCVO was a British Army General during World War I.-Military career:Davies was commissioned into the Worcestershire Militia in 1881. He transferred to the Grenadier Guards in 1884 becoming Adjutant to the 2 Bn Grenadier Guards in 1893...
  
  
• Peter R Davies
• Richard Hutton Davies
  Richard Hutton Davies
  Major General Richard Hutton Davies CB was an officer of the New Zealand Army during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the first New Zealander to command an independent force overseas and one of the most senior New Zealand officers during the First World War.Born in London, he...
  
  
• Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid
  Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid
  Major-General Sir Henry Joseph "Harry" d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 2nd Baronet DSO, MC, DL, TD , was a British army officer, company director and politician....
  
  
• James d'Avigdor-Goldsmid
  James d'Avigdor-Goldsmid
  Major-General Sir James Arthur d'Avigdor-Goldsmid, 3rd Baronet CB OBE MC was a British Army officer and British Conservative politician...
  
  
• Gronow Davis
  Gronow Davis
  Major-General Gronow Davis VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
  
  
• Guy Dawnay
  Guy Dawnay (British Army officer)
  Major General Guy Payan Dawnay CB, CMG, DSO, MVO , was an army officer and merchant banker. He is the nephew of Guy Dawnay, a politician.Dawnay fought at the Gallipoli Campaign during the First World War....
  
  
• Bertrand Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn
  Bertrand Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn
  Bertrand Edward Dawson, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn, GCVO, KCB, KCMG, PC, FRCP was a physician to the British Royal Family and President of the Royal College of Physicians‎.-Early life and education:...
  
  
• Douglas Dawson
  Douglas Dawson
  Brigadier-General Sir Douglas Frederick Rawdon Dawson , GCVO, KCB, CMG, was a British Army general officer.He was the second son of the Hon. Thomas Vesey Dawson, an officer of the Coldstream Guards who was killed at the Battle of Inkerman. Hispaternal grandfather was Richard Thomas Dawson, 2nd...
  
  
• Vesey John Dawson
  Vesey John Dawson
  Major-General Vesey John Dawson , CVO, was a British Army general officer.He was the eldest son of the Hon. Thomas Vesey Dawson, an officer of the Coldstream Guards who was killed at the Battle of Inkerman; his father was the son of Richard Thomas Dawson, 2nd Baron Cremorne, and his mother the...
  
  
• Sir Henry Percival de Bathe, 4th Baronet
  Sir Henry Percival de Bathe, 4th Baronet
  General Sir Henry Percival de Bathe, 4th Baronet KCB was a British Army General who achieved high office in the 1870s.-Military career:Henry Percival de Bathe was a page at Queen Victoria's coronation...
  
  
• Thomas de Courcy Hamilton
  Thomas de Courcy Hamilton
  Major-General Thomas de Courcy Hamilton VC was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
  
  
• Freddie de Guingand
  Freddie de Guingand
  Major-General Sir Francis Wilfred de Guingand KBE, CB, DSO , better known as Freddie de Guingand, was a British Army officer who served with Montgomery from El Alamein to the surrender of the Wehrmacht in the West...
  
  
• Oliver De Lancey Jr.
  Oliver De Lancey Jr.
  General Oliver De Lancey , also known as Oliver DeLancey and Oliver de Lancey, was a British Army officer of French Huguenot descent from a prominent family in colonial era New York State.-Biography:...
  
  
• Oliver De Lancey, Sr.
• Beauvoir De Lisle
  Beauvoir De Lisle
  General Sir Henry de Beauvoir De Lisle KCB KCMG DSO was a British Army General who served in World War I.-Military career:...
  
  
• Dudley FitzGerald-de Ros, 24th Baron de Ros
  Dudley FitzGerald-de Ros, 24th Baron de Ros
  Lieutenant-General Dudley Charles FitzGerald-de Ros, 24th Baron de Ros of Helmsley, KP, KCVO was the son of William FitzGerald-de Ros and Lady Georgiana Lennox. He was born in Brighton....
  
  
• Anthony Deane-Drummond
  Anthony Deane-Drummond
  Major General Anthony John Deane–Drummond CB, DSO, MC & Bar is a retired officer of the Royal Signals in the British Army, whose career was mostly spent with airborne forces....
  
  
• Wyndham Deedes
  Wyndham Deedes
  Sir Wyndham Henry Deedes CMG DSO was a British Brigadier General and was also the Chief secretary to the British High Commissioner of the British Mandate of Palestine.- Early life :Deedes was born in 1893 in Kent, England...
  
  
• Rohan Delacombe
  Rohan Delacombe
  Major General Sir Rohan Delacombe, KCMG, KBE, CB, DSO, KStJ was a British military officer who commanded the British occupation forces in Berlin from 1959 to 1962 at the height of the Cold War...
  
  
• Walter Sinclair Delamain
  Walter Sinclair Delamain
  Sir Walter Sinclair Delamain KCB KCMG DSO was a general of the British Indian Army.-Early service:He attended the Royal Military College and was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Princess Charlotte of Wales's on 22 October 1881...
  
  
• Cedric Delves
  Cedric Delves
  Lieutenant General Sir Cedric Norman George Delves KBE DSO is a former British Army general.-Military career:Educated at Woolverstone Hall School, Cedric Delves was commissioned into the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment in 1968...
  
  
• Miles Dempsey
  Miles Dempsey
  General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey, GBE, KCB, DSO, MC was commander of the British Second Army during the D-Day landings in the Second World War...
  
  
• Thomas Dennehy
  Thomas Dennehy
  Major-General Sir Thomas Dennehy, CIE , born in County Cork, Ireland and educated in Paris, was an administrator in British India....
  
  
• Reginald Denning
  Reginald Denning
  Lieutenant-General Sir Reginald Francis Stewart Denning KCVO KBE CB MC was a British Army staff officer and administrator.-Military career:...
  
  
• Cyril Deverell
  Cyril Deverell
  Field Marshal Sir Cyril John Deverell, GCB, KBE, ADC was a British career military officer who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1936 and 1937.-Army career:...
  
  
• Jack Deverell
  Jack Deverell
  General Sir Jack Deverell KCB OBE was Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Northern Europe.-Military career:...
  
  
• Robert Henry Dick
  Robert Henry Dick
  Sir Robert Henry Dick KCB KCH, KOV was a Scottish soldier, son of a doctor in the East India Company's service.- Military Career :He entered the British Army in 1800.He was lieutenant in the 42nd Regiment of Foot in 1804....
  
  
• Alexander Dickson
• Collingwood Dickson
  Collingwood Dickson
  General Sir Collingwood Dickson VC GCB was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
  
  
• Edward Thompson Dickson
  Edward Thompson Dickson
  Major-General Edward Thompson Dickson was a British Army general officer, who commanded two Territorial Force divisions before the First World War....
  
  
• Jeremiah Dickson
  Jeremiah Dickson
  Major General Sir Jeremiah Dickson, K.C.B. was a British Army officer and colonial official.He was the son of Right Reverend William Dickson, Bishop of Down...
  
  
• John Dill
  John Dill
  Field Marshal Sir John Greer Dill, GCB, CMG, DSO was a British commander in World War I and World War II. From May 1940 to December 1941 he was the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, and subsequently in Washington, as Chief of the British Joint Staff...
  
  
• Harry Kenneth Dimoline
  Harry Kenneth Dimoline
  Brigadier Harry Kenneth Dimoline CBE MBE DSO TD CPM was an artillery officer in the British and British Indian Armies during World War II.-World War II:...
  
  
• William Alfred Dimoline
  William Alfred Dimoline
  Major-General William Alfred Dimoline CB CMG CBE DSO MC was an officer in the British Army during World War I and World War II...
  
  
• Alexander Dirom
  Alexander Dirom
  General Alexander Dirom. Born 21 May 1757. Died Annan 6 October 1830. He was appointed Ensign in the 61st Regiment of Foot on the 8th Dec. 1778 and Lt. in the 88th Foot 13th Oct. 1779. He served with the regiment in Barbados and Jamaica as Military Secretary to the GoC and Major of Brigade...
  
  
• Matthew Charles Dixon
  Matthew Charles Dixon
  Major General Matthew Charles Dixon VC CB was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
  
  
• William Dobbie
  William Dobbie
  Lieutenant-General Sir William George Shedden Dobbie GCMG, KCB, DSO was a British Army veteran of the Second Boer War, and First and Second World Wars.-Early life:...
  
  
• Charles Macpherson Dobell
  Charles Macpherson Dobell
  Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Macpherson Dobell KCB, CMG, DSO was a Canadian soldier who served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers of the British Army.-Education:...
  
  
• George Don
  George Don (British Army officer)
  General Sir George Don GCB, GCH was a senior British Army military officer and colonial governor during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries...
  
  
• Hay Frederick Donaldson
  Hay Frederick Donaldson
  Brigadier-General Sir "Hay" Frederick Donaldson KCB was an English mechanical engineer.He was educated at Eton College, Trinity College, Cambridge, University of Edinburgh and Zurich University....
  
  
• Rufane Shaw Donkin
  Rufane Shaw Donkin
  Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin GCH KCB , was a British army officer of the Napoleonic era and later Member of Parliament.-Family:Rufane Donkin came of a military family and was the eldest child...
  
  
• John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore
  John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore
  General John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore GCB was an Anglo-Irish politician, hereditary peer and soldier.-Background:He was the son of John Hely-Hutchinson and the Baroness Donoughmore...
  
  
• Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
  Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester
  Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, KB , known between 1776 and 1786 as Sir Guy Carleton, was an Irish-British soldier and administrator...
  
  
• Eric Dorman-Smith
  Eric Dorman-Smith
  Eric Edward Dorman-Smith , later de-Anglicised to Eric Edward Dorman O'Gowan, was a British Army soldier who served with distinction in World War I, and then seems to have become something of a bête noire to the British military establishment because of his lively mind, and unorthodox...
  
  
• Sir Kenneth Douglas, 1st Baronet
  Sir Kenneth Douglas, 1st Baronet
  Lieutenant-General Sir Kenneth MacKenzie Douglas, 1st Baronet , born Kenneth MacKenzie, was the first Baronet of the Douglas of Glenbervie, Kincardine Baronetcy...
  
  
• Charles Douglas
• Henry Edward Manning Douglas
  Henry Edward Manning Douglas
  Major General Henry Edward Manning Douglas VC, CB, CMG, DSO was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.Born in Gillingham, Medway, Douglas was 24 years old, and...
  
  
• Howard Douglas
  Howard Douglas
  General Sir Howard Douglas, 3rd Baronet, GCB, GCMG, FRS was a British military officer born in Gosport, England, the younger son of Admiral Sir Charles Douglas, and a descendant of the Earls of Morton...
  
  
• Arthur Dowler
  Arthur Dowler
  Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Dowler KCB KBE was General Officer Commanding the East Africa Command of the British Army.-Military career:...
  
  
• Ernest Down
  Ernest Down
  Lieutenant-General Sir Ernest Edward Down KBE CB was a British General during World War II.-Military career:Ernest Down was commissioned into the Dorset Regiment in February 1923. He served in World War II being appointed Commander of the 2nd Parachute Brigade in North Africa in 1942...
  
  
• Hugh Dawnay, 8th Viscount Downe
  Hugh Dawnay, 8th Viscount Downe
  Major-General Hugh Richard Dawnay, 8th Viscount Downe, KCVO, CB, CIE was a British Army general and President of the MCC....
  
  
• Charles Hastings Doyle
  Charles Hastings Doyle
  Sir Charles Hastings Doyle, KCMG was a British military officer and Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick....
  
  
• William Draper
  William Draper (British Army officer)
  Sir William Draper KCB , was a British military officer who conquered Manila in 1762, but lost Minorca in 1782. He was involved in 1774 with a key meeting that agreed an early set of cricket rules including the leg before wicket rule.- Biography :Draper was born in Bristol, then the second largest...
  
  
• Christopher Drewry
  Christopher Drewry
  Lieutenant General Sir Christopher Francis Drewry KCB CBE was Commander of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps.-Military career:Chris Drewry was commissioned into the Welsh Guards in 1969...
  
  
• Gordon Drummond
  Gordon Drummond
  Sir Gordon Drummond, GCB was the first Canadian-born officer to command the military and the civil government of Canada...
  
  
• Drury Curzon Drury-Lowe
  Drury Curzon Drury-Lowe
  Lieutenant-General Sir Drury Curzon Drury-Lowe GCB had a distinguished military career in the 19th century British Army.He was born on 3 January 1830 at Aston Lodge in Aston-on-Trent when he was called Drury Curzon Holden...
  
  
• John Philip Du Cane
  John Philip Du Cane
  General Sir John Du Cane GCB is a former Master-General of the Ordnance.-Military career:Du Cane was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1884....
  
  
• Lieutenant-General Alan Colquhoun Duff, CB, OBE, MC, Cmdr LM (USA) Royal Engineers
  Royal Engineers
  The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers , and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army....
  
    (1895–1973)
• Alexander Duff
  Alexander Duff (British Army officer)
  General Sir Alexander Duff GCH was a British Army officer of the Napoleonic era.Duff was a younger son of James Duff, 4th Earl Fife...
  
  
• Alexander Gordon Duff  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Beauchamp Duff
  Beauchamp Duff
  General Sir Beauchamp Duff, GCB, GCSI, KCVO, CIE, KStJ , was a Scottish officer with a distinguished military career in the British Indian Army serving as Commander-in-Chief of India during World War I.- Early life :...
  
  
• Winston Dugan, 1st Baron Dugan of Victoria
  Winston Dugan, 1st Baron Dugan of Victoria
  Major-General Winston Joseph Dugan, 1st Baron Dugan of Victoria GCMG, CB, DSO, KStJ , known as Sir Winston Dugan between 1934 and 1949, was a British administrator and a career British Army officer...
  
  
• Herbert Cecil Duncan
  Herbert Cecil Duncan
  Brigadier General Herbert Cecil Duncan OBE commanded the 45th Indian Infantry Brigade during the Battle of Malaya. Duncan was killed whilst mounting a counter-attack on the Japanese during the retreat from the Muar River . Brig. Gen...
  
  
• Sir David Dundas, 1st Baronet
  Sir David Dundas, 1st Baronet
  General Sir David Dundas, 1st Baronet, GCB was a British general who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces from 1809 to 1811.-Military service:...
  
  
• Francis Dundas
  Francis Dundas
  General Francis Dundas General Francis Dundas General Francis Dundas (c.1759, Sanson, Berwickshire – 15 January 1824, Dumbarton, Scotland was a British general and acting governor of the Cape Colony between 1798 and 1803....
  
  
• John Graham, 1st Viscount of Dundee
  John Graham, 1st Viscount of Dundee
  John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st Viscount Dundee , known as the 7th Laird of Claverhouse until raised to the viscounty in 1688, was a Scottish soldier and nobleman, a Tory and an Episcopalian...
  
  
• Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald
  Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald
  Lieutenant-General Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald was a Scottish representative peer and a British Army general.-Military career:...
  
  
• Lionel Dunsterville
  Lionel Dunsterville
  General Lionel Charles Dunsterville CB, CSI was a British general, who led the so-called Dunsterforce across present-day Iraq and Iran towards Caucasus and oil-rich Baku.-Biography:...
  
  
• Henry Marion Durand
  Henry Marion Durand
  Sir Henry Marion Durand was a British soldier and colonial administrator.-Career:After training at the East India Company's Military Seminary at Addiscombe , Durand left Britain for India in 1829, arriving in May 1830. He served initially as Second Lieutenant in the Bengal Engineers...
  
  
• James Durand
• Benjamin d'Urban
  Benjamin d'Urban
  Lieutenant-General Sir Benjamin d'Urban, GCB, KCH, KCTS was a British general and colonial administrator, who is best known for his frontier policy when he was the Governor in the Cape Colony .-Early career:...
  
  
• Elias Walker Durnford
  Elias Walker Durnford
  Major General Elias Walker Durnford R.E was the builder of the Citadel, Quebec City.Durnford was born in 1774 in Lowestoft, Norfolk. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Engineers on April 24, 1793. Durnford married Jane Sophia Mann on October 30, 1798...
  
  
• Reginald Dyer
  Reginald Dyer
  Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer CB was a British Indian Army officer who as a temporary Brigadier-General was responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar ....
  
  
• Vivian Dykes
  Vivian Dykes
  Brigadier Vivian Dykes , was the Director of Plans, War Office between 1939 and 1941 and became the first Chief Combined Secretary British Joint Staff Mission Washington in 1942. He was described as being 'at the heart of allied military policy making'...
  
  

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• Ralph Eastwood
  Ralph Eastwood
  Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Ralph Eastwood KCB DSO MC was a British Army General during World War II.-Military career:Ralph Eastwood was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in 1910...
  
  
• James Edward Edmonds
  James Edward Edmonds
  Brigadier General James Edward Edmonds CB, CMG was a British First World War officer of the Royal Engineers who in the role of British official historian was responsible for the post-war compilation of the 28-volume History of the Great War...
  
  
• James Bevan Edwards
  James Bevan Edwards
  Lieutenant General Sir James Bevan Edwards KCB KCMG was a senior British Army officer and politician.-Military career:Edwards was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1852...
  
  
• Francis Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham
  Francis Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham
  Brigadier-General Francis Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham was an English peer and army officer....
  
  
• Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Effingham
  Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Effingham
  Lieutenant-General Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Effingham , styled Lord Howard from 1731 to 1743, was a British nobleman and Army officer, the son of Francis Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham....
  
  
• Charles Egerton
• Archibald Montgomerie, 11th Earl of Eglinton
  Archibald Montgomerie, 11th Earl of Eglinton
  Archibald Montgomerie, 11th Earl of Eglinton was a Scottish General, and Member of Parliament in the British Parliament. He was also the Clan Chief of the Clan Montgomery. Montgomerie fought in the Seven Years' War, where he served with George Washington...
  
  
• Edmond Elles
  Edmond Elles
  Lieutenant-General Sir Edmond Roche Elles KCB GCIE was a British Army officer who served in Egypt and India during the late 19th century and early 20th century.-External links:*...
  
  
• Hugh Elles
  Hugh Elles
  Lieutenant General Sir Hugh Jamieson Elles KCB KCMG KCVO DSO was a British General and the first commander of the newly formed Tank Corps in the First World War.-Early life:...
  
  
• John Elley
  John Elley
  Lieutenant-General Sir John Elley MP KCB KCH KMT and KSG, Governor of Galway and Colonel of the 17th Lancers was a British cavalry officer who fought with distinction in the Napoleonic Wars....
  
  
• Charles Ellice
  Charles Ellice
  General Sir Charles Ellice GCB is a former Adjutant-General to the Forces.-Military career:Born in Florence in Italy, Charles Ellice was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards in 1839....
  
  
• Edward Leonard Ellington
  Edward Leonard Ellington
  Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Edward Leonard Ellington GCB, CMG, CBE was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force...
  
  
• Christopher Elliot
  Christopher Elliot
  Major-General Christopher Haslett Elliott, CVO CBE is a senior British Army officer. He was Defence Services Secretary and Director General, Reserve Forces and Cadets 2001-2004.-References:...
  
  
• Granville Elliott
  Granville Elliott
  Major-General Granville Elliott , was a British military officer. He served with distinction in several other European armies and subsequently in the British Army...
  
  
• Roger Elliott
  Roger Elliott
  Major General Roger Elliott was one of the earliest British Governors of Gibraltar. His nephew George Augustus Eliott also became a noted Governor and defender of Gibraltar....
  
  
• Sir Howard Elphinstone, 1st Baronet
  Sir Howard Elphinstone, 1st Baronet
  Sir Howard Elphinstone, 1st Baronet was a Major-General in the Peninsular War. He was created 1st Baronet of Elphinstone, of Sowerby in the County of Cumberland, in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 25 May 1816....
  
  
• Howard Craufurd Elphinstone
  Howard Craufurd Elphinstone
  Major-General Sir Howard Craufurd Elphinstone VC KCB CMG was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Early career and the Crimean War:Born in Livonia Elphinstone joined...
  
  
• William George Keith Elphinstone
• Poole England
• Thomas Erle
  Thomas Erle
  Lieutenant-General Thomas Erle PC was an English army general and politician who sat in the House of Commons of England and of Great Britain from 1678 to 1718. He was Governor of Portsmouth and a Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance....
  
  
• Charles Hay, 20th Earl of Erroll
  Charles Hay, 20th Earl of Erroll
  Charles Gore Hay, 20th Earl of Erroll and 3rd Baron Kilmarnock, KT, CB , known as Lord Hay until 1891, was a Scottish soldier and Conservative politician....
  
  
• George Erskine
  George Erskine
  General Sir George Watkin Eben James Erskine GCB, KBE, DSO was a senior British Army officer during World War II-Background:...
  
  
• Sir William Erskine, 1st Baronet
  Sir William Erskine, 1st Baronet
  Lieutenant-General Sir William Erskine, 1st Baronet was a British Army commander and the 1st baronet of the Erskine of Torrie creation.-Background:...
  
  
• Sir William Erskine, 2nd Baronet
  Sir William Erskine, 2nd Baronet
  Major-General Sir William Erskine, 2nd Baronet was an officer in the British Army, served as a member of Parliament, and achieved important commands in the Napoleonic Wars under the Duke of Wellington, but ended his service in insanity and suicide.He was the eldest son of Lieutenant-General Sir...
  
  
• Vernon Erskine-Crum
  Vernon Erskine-Crum
  Lieutenant-General Vernon Forbes Erskine-Crum, CIE, MC was a British Army officer, who briefly served as General Officer Commanding in Northern Ireland during the early period of the Troubles.-Regimental career:...
  
  
• Basil Eugster
  Basil Eugster
  General Sir Basil Oscar Eugster KCB, KCVO, CBE,DSO MC was a Commander in Chief, UK Land Forces.-Army career:A British soldier of Swiss descent, Basil Eugster attended Beaumont College. In 1935 he joined the Irish Guards. He served with his Regiment through World War II and fought in the Narvik...
  
  
• De Lacy Evans
• Geoffrey Charles Evans
  Geoffrey Charles Evans
  Lieutenant-General Sir Geoffrey Charles Evans KBE, CB, DSO & Two Bars was an officer in the British Army during World War II and the post-war era...
  
  
• Lewis Pugh Evans
  Lewis Pugh Evans
  Brigadier General Lewis Pugh Evans VC, CB, CMG, DSO & Bar, DL was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Early years:Lewis Pugh Evans was born at Abermadd to Sir...
  
  
• Thomas Evans
• William Evans
  William Evans (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant-General William Evans was a British Army General who became Governor of the Royal Hospital Chelsea.-Military career:In 1713, during the War of the Spanish Succession, Evans was invited by the Duke of Ormonde to serve in Flanders and acquired a Regiment of Dragoons when Viscount Cobham...
  
  
• William Evelyn
• James Everard
• John Fullerton Evetts
  John Fullerton Evetts
  Lieutenant-General Sir John Fullerton Evetts CB, CBE, MC was a career soldier of the British Army.-Military career:Educated at Lancing College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Evetts was commissioned into The Cameronians in 1911.He fought on the Western Front during World War I, and was...
  
  
• Spencer Ewart
  Spencer Ewart
  Lieutenant General Sir John Spencer Ewart KCB was Adjutant-General to the Forces in the British Army.-Military career:Educated at Marlborough College and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, Spencer Ewart was commissioned into the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders in 1881.He served with his...
  
  

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• Henry Fane
• Edmund Fanning
  Edmund Fanning (colonial administrator)
  Edmund Fanning first gained fame for his role in the War of the Regulation, but later had a distinguished career as a colonial governor and British general.right| Sketch of Edmund Fanning...
  
  
• Evelyn Fanshawe
  Evelyn Fanshawe
  Sir Evelyn Dalrymple Fanshawe CB, CBE was a British Major General and the Director of the International Refugee Organisation in the British Zone of Germany from 1948-1952....
  
  
• Martin Farndale
  Martin Farndale
  General Sir Martin Baker Farndale KCB was a British Army General who reached high office in the 1980s.-Military career:...
  
  
• Andrew Farquhar
  Andrew Farquhar
  Major-General Andrew Peter Farquhar CBE DL is a former British Army officer who commanded 5th Division.-Military career:...
  
  
• Anthony Farrar-Hockley
  Anthony Farrar-Hockley
  General Sir Anthony Heritage Farrar-Hockley GBE, KCB, DSO & Bar, MC , affectionately known as 'Farrar the Para' , was a British soldier and a military historian who distinguished himself in a number of British conflicts...
  
  
• Dair Farrar-Hockley
  Dair Farrar-Hockley
  Major General Charles Dair Farrar-Hockley, MC is a former British Army officer and a military arbitrator. He is the son of General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley.-Military career:...
  
  
• William Fawcett
  William Fawcett (British Army officer)
  General Sir William Fawcett KCB was an Adjutant-General to the Forces.-Military career:Educated at the Free School in Bury in Lancashire, William Fawcett was commissioned into the 33rd Foot in 1748....
  
  
• William Feilding
• Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet
• James Fergusson
  James Fergusson (British Army officer)
  General Sir James Fergusson, KCB was a British Army officer during the Napoleonic Wars and the Governor of Gibraltar from 1855 to 1859.-Military career:...
  
  
• Francis Festing
  Francis Festing
  Field Marshal Sir Francis Wogan Festing GCB, KBE, DSO , called 菲士挺 in Chinese, was a field marshal of the British Army...
  
  
• Andrew Figgures
  Andrew Figgures
  Lieutenant General Andrew Collingwood Figgures CB CBE is a former Master-General of the Ordnance.-Military career:Educated at Loughborough Grammar School, Welbeck College and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, Figgures was commissioned into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in 1970.In...
  
  
• Bertie Fisher
  Bertie Fisher
  Lieutenant General Sir Bertie Drew Fisher KCB CMG DSO was a British Army General during World War II.-Military career:Bertie Fisher was commissioned into the 17th Lancers in 1900....
  
  
• Lord Michael Fitzalan-Howard
• Charles FitzClarence
  Charles FitzClarence
  Brigadier General Charles FitzClarence VC was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
  
  
• Desmond Fitzpatrick
  Desmond Fitzpatrick
  General Sir Geoffrey Richard Desmond Fitzpatrick, GCB, GCVO, DSO, MBE, MC was a senior British Army officer who served as commander of the British Army of the Rhine and Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe...
  
  
• Richard FitzPatrick
  Richard FitzPatrick
  General Richard FitzPatrick , styled The Honourable from birth, was an Anglo-Irish soldier, wit, poet, Whig politician and ‘sworn brother’ of the illustrious statesman of Charles James Fox...
  
  
• Lord Charles FitzRoy
  Lord Charles FitzRoy (British Army officer)
  General Lord Charles FitzRoy was a British Army officer and politician.FitzRoy was the second son of Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton and his first wife, Anne, a daughter of Henry Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth. After education at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he entered the...
  
  
• Sir Frederick Fitzwygram, 4th Baronet
  Sir Frederick Fitzwygram, 4th Baronet
  Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Wellington John Fitzwygram, 4th baronet was a British Army cavalry officer, expert on horses and Conservative politician....
  
  
• Sir Henry Floyd, 5th Baronet
• Sir John Floyd, 1st Baronet
  Sir John Floyd, 1st Baronet
  General Sir John William Floyd, 1st Baronet , was a British cavalry officer.Born on 22 February 1748, he was the oldest child of Captain John Floyd and Mary Floyd ....
  
  
• Arthur Floyer-Acland
  Arthur Floyer-Acland
  Lieutenant General Arthur Nugent Floyer-Acland CB, DSO, MC, DL was a British soldier.-Background:...
  
  
• Stafford Floyer-Acland
  Stafford Floyer-Acland
  Brigadier Stafford Nugent Floyer-Acland CBE, DL was a British soldier.He was the only child of Lieutenant-General Arthur Nugent Floyer-Acland and his wife Evelyn Stafford Still, daughter of Stafford Francis Still. Floyer-Acland was educated in Marlborough College and entered then the British Army...
  
  
• John Paul Foley
  John Paul Foley
  Lieutenant General Sir John Paul Foley KCB, OBE, MC, DL is a retired British general with a long career in military intelligence. He is the great-grandson of Henry Hodgetts-Foley.-Military career:...
  
  
• Henry Robert Bowreman Foote
  Henry Robert Bowreman Foote
  Major General Henry Robert Bowreman Foote VC CB DSO was a British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Life and career:Foote was born in Ishapore, India the son of...
  
  
• John Forbes
• Robert Ford
  Robert Ford (British Army officer)
  General Sir Robert Cyril Ford GCB CBE is a former Adjutant-General to the Forces.-Military career:Born in Devon to John and Gladys Ford, Robert Ford was educated at Musgrave's College and was later commissioned into the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards in 1943. He served in North West Europe during...
  
  
• Victor Fortune
  Victor Fortune
  Major-General Sir Victor Morven Fortune KBE, CB, DSO was a British Army officer. He saw service in both World Wars...
  
  
• Victor Fortune
  Victor Fortune
  Major-General Sir Victor Morven Fortune KBE, CB, DSO was a British Army officer. He saw service in both World Wars...
  
  
• George Henry Fowke
  George Henry Fowke
  Lieutenant General Sir George Henry Fowke KCB, KCMG was a British Army general, who served on the staff of the British Expeditionary Force during the First World War....
  
  
• Charles Christopher Fowkes
  Charles Christopher Fowkes
  Major-General Charles Christopher Fowkes, DSO was an officer in the British Army during World War II. His nickname was "Fluffy."...
  
  
• William Archibald Kenneth Fraser
  William Archibald Kenneth Fraser
  William Archibald Kenneth Fraser, CB, CBE, DSO, MVO, MC was an officer in the British Indian Army during World War I and World War II.-Biography:...
  
  
• Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg
  Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg
  Lieutenant-General Bernard Cyril Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg VC, GCMG, KCB, KBE, DSO & Three Bars , was a British-born New Zealand Victoria Cross recipient and soldier who later served as the seventh Governor-General of New Zealand.A veteran of the Mexican Revolution, he became an officer in the...
  
  
• William Furse
  William Furse
  Lieutenant General Sir William Thomas Furse KCB KCMG DSO was a Master-General of the Ordnance.-Military career:Educated at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, Furse was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1884. He was Aide-de-Camp to Lord Roberts from 1891 to 1893.He served in the Second...
  
  
• Albert Fytche
  Albert Fytche
  Lieutenant-General Albert Fytche CSI , for whom is named the bird Bambusicola fytchii, served as Chief Commissioner of the British Crown Colony of Burma from February 1867 to April 1871. Commissioned in the 1830s, he was promoted to Captain in the 1840s...
  
  

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• Henry Gage, 3rd Viscount Gage
  Henry Gage, 3rd Viscount Gage
  Henry Gage, 3rd Viscount Gage was a British Army officer.Henry was the eldest son of General Thomas Gage, military leader of British Forces at the beginning of the American Revolution...
  
  
• Thomas Gage
  Thomas Gage
  Thomas Gage was a British general, best known for his many years of service in North America, including his role as military commander in the early days of the American War of Independence....
  
  
• Charles Gairdner
  Charles Gairdner
  General Sir Charles Henry Gairdner, GBE, KCMG, KCVO, CB was a British Army general during World War II and was Governor of Western Australia from 1951 to 1963, and Governor of Tasmania from 1963 to 1968.-Early life:...
  
  
• Richard Nelson Gale
  Richard Nelson Gale
  General Sir Richard Nelson "Windy" Gale GCB, KBE, DSO, MC was a soldier in the British Army who served in both world wars. In World War I he was awarded the Military Cross in 1918 whilst serving as a junior officer in the Machine Gun Corps...
  
  
• Alexander Galloway
  Alexander Galloway
  Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Galloway KBE, CB, DSO, MC was an officer in the British Army during World War I and World War II...
  
  
• Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway
• James Gammell
  James Gammell
  Lieutenant-General Sir James Andrew Harcourt Gammell KCB DSO MC was a British Army General during World War II.-Military career:After studying at Cambridge University, James Gammell was commissioned into the Scottish Horse Yeomanry in 1913...
  
  
• Robert Gardiner
  Robert Gardiner (British Army officer)
  General Sir Robert Gardiner GCB GCH was Master Gunner, St James's Park, the most senior Ceremonial Post in the Royal Artillery after the Sovereign.-Military career:...
  
  
• George Garth
  George Garth
  George Garth was a British General, a commander in the American Revolutionary War, and Colonel of the 17th Regiment of Foot.-Life:...
  
  
• Thomas Garth
  Thomas Garth (General)
  General Thomas Garth was a British Army officer and chief equerry to King George III of the United Kingdom.He was the son of John Garth MP, and Rebecca, daughter of John Brompton and grand-daughter of Sir Richard Raynsford, Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench.He is believed to have been the...
  
  
• John Garvock
  John Garvock
  General Sir John Garvock GCB was a British Army General who achieved high office in the 1860s.-Military career:Garvoch was commissioned into the 10th Regiment of Foot in 1835...
  
  
• William Julius Gascoigne
• Isaac Gascoyne
  Isaac Gascoyne
  Isaac Gascoyne was a British Army officer and Tory politician. He was the son of Bamber Gascoyne and Mary Green and was educated at Felsted School....
  
  
• Alfred Gaselee
  Alfred Gaselee
  Sir Alfred Gaselee, GCB, GCIE, was a soldier who reached the rank of General in the British Indian Army.-Personal life:...
  
  
• William Forbes Gatacre
  William Forbes Gatacre
  Lieutenant General Sir William Forbes Gatacre KCB, DSO was a British soldier, born near Stirling, and educated at Royal Military College Sandhurst. He entered the army in 1862 and retired in 1904, after serving in various conflicts....
  
  
• John Francis Gathorne-Hardy
  John Francis Gathorne-Hardy
  General Sir John Francis Gathorne-Hardy GCB, GCVO, CMG, DSO was a British First World War General who served in Italy and the Western Front. His parents were John Stewart Gathorne-Hardy, 2nd Earl of Cranbrook and Cicely Marguerite Wilhelmina Ridgway.-Military career:He was educated at Eton and...
  
  
• Alexander Gibb
  Alexander Gibb
  Brigadier-General Sir Alexander Gibb GBE CB FRS was a Scottish civil engineer.Gibb was born in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, the son of the civil engineer, Alexander Easton Gibb, and the grandson of John Gibb, a founder member of the Institution of Civil Engineers...
  
  
• John Gibbon
  John Gibbon (British Army officer)
  General Sir John Gibbon GCB OBE is a former Master-General of the Ordnance.-Military career:Gibbon was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1939....
  
  
• George Giffard
  George Giffard
  General Sir George Giffard GCB DSO was a British military officer, who had a distinguished career in command of African troops in World War I, rising to command an Army Group in South East Asia in World War II.-Early career:...
  
  
• Glyn Gilbert
  Glyn Gilbert
  Major-General Glyn Charles Anglim Gilbert CB MC was a 20th century British military officer who served during World War II...
  
  
• Peter Gilchrist
• Webb Gillman
  Webb Gillman
  General Sir Webb Gillman KCB KCMG DSO was a British Army General during World War I.-Military career:Educated at Dulwich College, Gillman was commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery in 1889...
  
  
• Sir Robert Gilmour, 1st Baronet
• Henry Gladwin
  Henry Gladwin
  Henry Gladwin was the British commander at Fort Detroit when it was besieged during Pontiac's Rebellion.British army officer in colonial America...
  
  
• Duncan John Glasfurd
  Duncan John Glasfurd
  Brigadier General Duncan John Glasfurd was a British Army and later Australian Army colonel and temporary Brigadier General in World War I. He was mentioned in dispatches for his role in evacuating Anzac...
  
  
• Lord Edward Gleichen
  Lord Edward Gleichen
  Major-General Lord Albert "Edward" Wilfred Gleichen, KCVO, CB, CMG, DSO was a British courtier and soldier....
  
  
• James Murray, 1st Baron Glenlyon
  James Murray, 1st Baron Glenlyon
  Lieutenant-General James Murray, 1st Baron Glenlyon FRS KCH was a British Army officer, member of parliament and peer. Before being granted the title of Baron Glenlyon in 1821, he was known from birth as Lord James Murray.-Life:Murray was born in 1782 at Dunkeld, Perthshire, the son of John...
  
  
• James Glover
  James Glover (British Army officer)
  General Sir James Malcolm Glover KCB DL was a former Commander in Chief, UK Land Forces.-Army career:Educated at Wellington College, Jimmy Glover, as he was generally known, was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1949. He transferred to the Rifle Brigade in 1956 and served with the Brigade...
  
  
• John Plumptre Carr Glyn
  John Plumptre Carr Glyn
  Lieutenant-General John Plumptre Carr Glyn KCB was a British general who saw active service in the Crimean War and the Anglo-Ashanti War.-Early life:John Plumptre Carr Glyn was born Witchampton, east Dorset....
  
  
• Alexander Godley
  Alexander Godley
  General Sir Alexander John Godley GCB, KCMG was a First World War general, best known for his role as commander of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force...
  
  
• Alfred Reade Godwin-Austen
  Alfred Reade Godwin-Austen
  General Sir Alfred Reade Godwin-Austen KCSI, CB, OBE, MC was a British Army officer. He served during the First and Second World Wars.-Early life:The second son of Lieutenant-Colonel A. G...
  
  
• Frederic John Goldsmid
  Frederic John Goldsmid
  Major-General Sir Frederic John Goldsmid KCSI, CB was a Major-General in British Army and East India Company, who also served the British government in various roles through the Middle East.-Life and career:Goldsmid was born at Milan, Italy in August 1818, the only son of Eliza Frances and Mr...
  
  
• Walter Tuckfield Goldsworthy
  Walter Tuckfield Goldsworthy
  Major-General Walter Tuckfield Goldsworthy was a British Army officer and a Conservative politician.Goldsworthy was born in Marylebone, London...
  
  
• Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet
• Richard Goodbody
  Richard Goodbody
  General Sir Richard Wakefield Goodbody GCB KBE DSO was a senior British Army officer and a former Adjutant-General to the Forces.-Military career:...
  
  
• Charles Augustus Goodfellow
  Charles Augustus Goodfellow
  Lieutenant General Charles Augustus Goodfellow VC CB was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:He was 22 years old, and a lieutenant in the Bombay...
  
  
• Gerald Goodlake
  Gerald Goodlake
  Lieutenant General Gerald Littlehales Goodlake VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
  
  
• Richard Elton Goodwin
  Richard Elton Goodwin
  Lieutenant General Sir Richard Goodwin KCB CBE DSO was a British Army General who reached high office in the 1960s.-Military career:Goodwin was commissioned into the Suffolk Regiment in 1928...
  
  
• Sir James Gordon, 1st Baronet
  Sir James Gordon, 1st Baronet
  General Sir James Willoughby Gordon GCB GCH was Quartermaster-General to the Forces.-Military career:Gordon was commissioned into the 66th Regiment of Foot in 1783....
  
  
• George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon
  George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon
  George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon GCB, PC , styled Marquess of Huntly until 1827, was a Scottish nobleman, soldier and politician and the last of his illustrious line.-Early life:...
  
  
• Joseph Maria Gordon
  Joseph Maria Gordon
  Major General Joseph Maria Gordon CB , was an officer in the British Army, later holding the position of Commandant of the South Australian Military Forces and serving in the Second Boer War in South Africa...
  
  
• Lord Adam Gordon
• William Gordon
  William Gordon (British Army officer)
  General William Gordon , of Fyvie, was a British general and courtier. He was several times returned to Parliament by the interest of the Duke of Marlborough, and precipitated a family quarrel with his nephew, the Duke of Gordon, by commandeering a regiment that the latter was raising.He was the...
  
  
• Robert Gordon-Finlayson
  Robert Gordon-Finlayson
  General Sir Robert Gordon-Finlayson KCB CMG DSO was Adjutant-General to the Forces.-Military career:Finlayson entered the British Army from the Suffolk Militia and was commissioned into the Royal Artillery. He served during the First World War initially as a Royal Artillery officer with 7th...
  
  
• George Gordon-Lennox
  George Gordon-Lennox
  Lieutenant-General Sir George Charles Gordon-Lennox, KBE, CB, CVO, DSO was a British soldier.-Military career:...
  
  
• Charles Stephen Gore
  Charles Stephen Gore
  Sir Charles Stephen Gore KH GCB was a British general.He served in Canada and fought in the Battle of Saint-Denis.The community of Gore, Nova Scotia is named after him when he served in Nova Scotia....
  
  
• G. F. Gorringe
• William Gott
  William Gott
  Lieutenant-General William Henry Ewart Gott CB, CBE, DSO and bar, MC , nicknamed "Strafer", was a British Army officer during both the First and Second World Wars, reaching the rank of lieutenant-general when serving in the British Eighth Army.-Military career:Educated at Harrow School he was...
  
  
• Charles John Stanley Gough
  Charles John Stanley Gough
  General Sir Charles John Stanley Gough VC, GCB was born in Chittagong, India was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:At age 16, Gough moved to India,...
  
  
• Hubert Gough
  Hubert Gough
  General Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough GCB, GCMG, KCVO was a senior officer in the British Army, who commanded the British Fifth Army from 1916 to 1918 during the First World War.-Family background:...
  
  
• Hugh Henry Gough
  Hugh Henry Gough
  General Sir Hugh Henry Gough VC, GCB was born in Calcutta, India and was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:He was 23 years old, and a lieutenant in the...
  
  
• John Gough
• Michael Gow
  Michael Gow (British Army officer)
  General Sir James Michael Gow GCB is a retired British Army General who reached high office in the 1980s.-Military career:Educated at Winchester College, Gow was commissioned into the Scots Guards during World War II...
  
  
• Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie
  Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie
  Brigadier General Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie VC, GCMG, CB, DSO & Bar, PC was a British soldier and colonial governor and the tenth Governor-General of Australia. Serving for 9 years and 7 days, he is the longest serving Governor-General in Australia's history...
  
  
• Douglas Gracey
• David Graeme
  David Graeme
  David Graeme was a British soldier, diplomat and courtier, responsible for carrying George III’s proposal of marriage to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.-Origins and estate:...
  
  
• Douglas Alexander Graham
  Douglas Alexander Graham
  Major General Douglas Alexander Henry Graham CB, CBE, DSO & Bar, MC, DL was a British soldier of the First and Second World Wars. During his early life he studied at the University of Glasgow...
  
  
• Gerald Graham
  Gerald Graham
  Lieutenant General Sir Gerald Graham, VC GCB GCMG was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Early life:He was born in Acton, Middlesex, and after studying at...
  
  
• John Manners, Marquess of Granby
  John Manners, Marquess of Granby
  General John Manners, Marquess of Granby PC, , British soldier, was the eldest son of the 3rd Duke of Rutland. As he did not outlive his father, he was known by his father's subsidiary title, Marquess of Granby...
  
  
• James Grant (British Army officer)
• James Grant (Waterloo)
  James Grant (Waterloo)
  For other people of the same name, see James GrantMajor-General James Grant C.B. was the son of James Grant of Dalvey, of the line of the Baronets Grant of Dalvey, Elgin, themselves an offshoot of Grant of Grant. He was born in Middlesex in 1778.-Army career:He joined the Army in 1797 and served 5...
  
  
• James Hope Grant
  James Hope Grant
  General Sir James Hope Grant GCB , British general, was the fifth and youngest son of Francis Grant of Kilgraston, Perthshire, and brother of Sir Francis Grant, President of the Royal Academy.-Military career:...
  
  
• Scott Grant
  Scott Grant
  Lieutenant General Sir Scott Carnegie Grant KCB is a former Quartermaster-General to the Forces.-Military career:Educated at The King's School, Pontefract, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and Clare College, Cambridge, Scott Grant was commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers in 1965.He...
  
  
• Timothy Granville-Chapman
  Timothy Granville-Chapman
  General Sir Timothy John Granville-Chapman, GBE, KCB, ADC Gen is a former Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff of the British Armed Forces. He presently holds the ceremonial position of Master Gunner, St James's Park.- Military career :...
  
  
• Arthur Edward Grassett
  Arthur Edward Grassett
  Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Edward Grassett KBE CB DSO MC was a Canadian born and educated soldier who served with the British Army in Canada, England, India and China.-Education:...
  
  
• Michael Gray
  Michael Gray (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant-General Sir Michael Gray KCB, OBE, DL was a senior British Army officer who was General Officer Commanding South East District from 1985 to 1988, Colonel Commandant of the Parachute Regiment from 1990 to 1993 and Lieutenant of the Tower of London from 1995 to 1998.-Military...
  
  
• Stuart Greeves
  Stuart Greeves
  Major-General Sir Stuart Greeves KBE CB DSO and Bar MC and Bar was a British Indian Army officer.Born in 1897, Stuart Greeves was educated at Northampton School....
  
  
• Guy Gregson
  Guy Gregson
  Major-General Guy Patrick Gregson CB CBE DSO & Bar MC was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding 1st Division.-Military career:...
  
  
• Charles Grey
  Charles Grey (British Army officer)
  Sir Charles Grey was a British army officer, member of the British House of Commons and political figure in Lower Canada...
  
  
• Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey
  Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey
  Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey, KB PC was one of the most important British generals of the 18th century. He was the fourth son of Sir Henry Grey, 1st Baronet, of Howick in Northumberland. He served in the Seven Years' War, American War of Independence and French Revolutionary War...
  
  
• James Grierson
  James Grierson
  Lieutenant General Sir James Moncrieff Grierson KCB, CMG, CVO, ADC was a British soldier.- Military career :Grierson was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1877....
  
  
• Charles Griffiths
  Charles Griffiths (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant-General Charles Griffiths was a British soldier, foster brother to Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, Lieutenant-General and Governor of Yarmouth Castle, Isle of Wight....
  
  
• George Grogan
• Francis Grose
• Colin Gubbins
  Colin Gubbins
  Major-General Sir Colin McVean Gubbins KCMG, DSO, MC was the prime mover of the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War....
  
  
• Gordon Guggisberg
  Gordon Guggisberg
  Brigadier-General Sir Frederick Gordon Guggisberg, KCMG, DSO, , soldier and administrator, was born in Galt, Ontario, Canada, a second-generation descendant of an immigrant from Uetendorf, Canton Bern, Switzerland, the eldest son of Frederick Guggisberg, retail-goods merchant, of Galt, by his wife,...
  
  
• John Christopher Guise
  John Christopher Guise
  Lieutenant General John Christopher Guise VC, CB was a British Army officer and English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.Guise attended Sandhurst and served in the...
  
  
• Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank
  Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank
  General Charles Ronald Llewelyn Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank, was Chief of the Defence Staff between 1997 and 2001 and Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, between 1994 and 1997.-Army career:...
  
  
• Roland Guy
  Roland Guy
  General Sir Roland Kelvin Guy GCB CBE DSO was a senior British Army officer who was Adjutant-General to the Forces.-Military career:...
  
  
• Willoughby Gwatkin
• Llewellyn Henry Gwynne
  Llewellyn Henry Gwynne
  Llewellyn Henry Gwynne CMG CBE was the first Anglican Bishop of Egypt and Sudan.- Early life :Gwynne was born in Swansea, Wales, in 1863. While at the Swansea Grammar School, the headmaster encouraged him to follow the example of his beloved brother Charlie by working hard and pursuing his...
  
  

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• John Hackett (5 November 1910 – 9 September 1997)
• Charles Hadden
  Charles Hadden
  Major-General Sir Charles Frederick Hadden KCB is a former Master-General of the Ordnance.-Military career:Hadden was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1873...
  
   (1854–1924)
• Frederick Edward Hadow
  Frederick Edward Hadow
  Major-General Frederick Edward Hadow was an officer in the Indian Army...
  
   (28 October 1836 – 15 May 1915)
• Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
  Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
  Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE, ADC, was a British senior officer during World War I. He commanded the British Expeditionary Force from 1915 to the end of the War...
  
   (19 June 1861 – 29 January 1928)
• General Robert Haining
  Robert Haining
  General Sir Robert Hadden Haining KCB DSO was a British General who served during World War II.-Military career:Robert Haining was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1901...
  
   KCB DSO
  Distinguished Service Order
  The Distinguished Service Order is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the British Commonwealth and Empire, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.Instituted on 6 September...
  
   (1882–1959)
• Major-General Edmund Hakewill-Smith
  Edmund Hakewill-Smith
  Major-General Sir Edmund Hakewill-Smith KCVO, CB, CBE, MC was a South African-born British General.-Early life:Hakewill-Smith was born in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa, on the 17 March 1896, he was educated at the Diocesan College in Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa and at the RMC...
  
   KCVO
  Royal Victorian Order
  The Royal Victorian Order is a dynastic order of knighthood and a house order of chivalry recognising distinguished personal service to the order's Sovereign, the reigning monarch of the Commonwealth realms, any members of her family, or any of her viceroys...
  
  , CB
  Order of the Bath
  The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...
  
  , CBE
  Order of the British Empire
  The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
  
  , MC
  Military Cross
  The Military Cross is the third-level military decoration awarded to officers and other ranks of the British Armed Forces; and formerly also to officers of other Commonwealth countries....
  
   (1896–1986)
• General Richard Haking
  Richard Haking
  General Sir Richard Cyril Byrne Haking, GBE, KCB, KCMG was a British general in the First World War. He is remembered chiefly for the high casualties suffered by his forces at the second Battle of Fromelles, although at least one British historian has sought to defend his reputation, regarding...
  
  , GBE
  Order of the British Empire
  The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
  
  , KCB
  Order of the Bath
  The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...
  
  , KCMG
  Order of St Michael and St George
  The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is an order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later George IV of the United Kingdom, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, George III....
  
   (24 January 1862–9 June 1945)
• General James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane
  James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane
  General Sir James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane GCMG, KCB, DSO was a senior British Army officer with a long and distinguished career.-Military career:...
  
   GCMG
  Order of St Michael and St George
  The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is an order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later George IV of the United Kingdom, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, George III....
  
  , KCB
  Order of the Bath
  The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...
  
  , DSO
  Distinguished Service Order
  The Distinguished Service Order is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the British Commonwealth and Empire, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.Instituted on 6 September...
  
   (17 November 1862 – 19 April 1950)
• Frederick Haldimand
  Frederick Haldimand
  Sir Frederick Haldimand, KB was a military officer best known for his service in the British Army in North America during the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War...
  
   KB
  Order of the Bath
  The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...
  
   (August 11, 1718 – June 5, 1791)
• William Halifax
  William Halifax
  William T. Halifax, Lord Stirling was a British Army officer and the Lieutenant Governor of St. Lucia.-Early life:William Halifax was born in Justice Hill, the traditional home of his family in Suffolk on September 25, 1786. He was the second son of George Halifax. Halifax grew up very close to...
  
  
• Colin Halkett
  Colin Halkett
  General Sir Colin Halkett GCB GCH GCTE was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.-Family:Halkett came from a military family...
  
  
• Hugh Halkett
  Hugh Halkett
  General Baron Hugh Halkett, GCH, CB, was a British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars and later a general of infantry in the Hanoverian service.-Early career:...
  
  
• Richard Hebden O'Grady Haly
  Richard Hebden O'Grady Haly
  Major-General Sir Richard Hebden O'Grady Haly, KCB was a British Army officer and served as General Officer Commanding the Militia of Canada from 1900 to 1902.-Military career:...
  
  
• William O'Grady Haly
  William O'Grady Haly
  Sir William O’Grady Haly was an English General who was the general officer commanding British forces in North America.Haly fought in the Crimean War. He was the father of Major General Sir Richard Hebden O'Grady Haly....
  
  
• Bruce Hamilton
  Bruce Hamilton (British Army officer)
  General Sir Bruce Meade Hamilton GCB, KCVO was a British Army General during World War I.-Military career:...
  
  
• Hubert Hamilton
  Hubert Hamilton
  Major General Hubert Ion Wetherall Hamilton CB, CVO, DSO was a senior British general who served with distinction throughout his career, seeing battle in the Mahdist War in Egypt and the Second Boer War in South Africa, before being given command of the British Third Division at the outbreak of...
  
  
• Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton
  Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton
  General Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton GCB GCMG DSO TD was a general in the British Army and is most notably for commanding the ill-fated Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the Battle of Gallipoli....
  
  
• General James Inglis Hamilton
  James Inglis Hamilton
  General James Inglis Hamilton, was a Scottish soldier. He enlisted the British Army in 1755 and he commanded several regiments. He was the only colonel of the 113th Regiment of Foot...
  
   (before 1742 –27 July 1803)
• Sir John Hamilton, 1st Baronet, of Woodbrook
  Sir John Hamilton, 1st Baronet, of Woodbrook
  Lieutenant-General Sir John James Hamilton, 1st Baronet was a highly respected and experienced officer of the Honourable East India Company, the British Army and during the Napoleonic Wars the Portuguese Army who saw action across the world from India to the West Indies and was honoured for his...
  
  
• Alexander Hamilton-Gordon
• Alexander Hamilton-Gordon
• Edward Bruce Hamley
  Edward Bruce Hamley
  Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Bruce Hamley KCB KCMG was a British general and military writer and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892.-Early life:...
  
  
• Thomas Brand, 3rd Viscount Hampden
  Thomas Brand, 3rd Viscount Hampden
  Thomas Walter Brand, 3rd Viscount Hampden GCVO KCB CMG was a British peer, the son of the 2nd Viscount Hampden....
  
  
• John Hanbury-Williams
  John Hanbury-Williams
  Major-General Sir John Hanbury-Williams GCVO, KCB, CMG. John Hanbury-Williams was the youngest son of Ferdinand Hanbury-Williams, of Coldbrook Park, Monmouthshire. After attending Wellington College, he went on to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and in 1878 he was commissioned into the 43rd...
  
  
• John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton
  John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton
  Field Marshal Allan Francis John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton, GCB, CBE, DSO, MC was a British Army officer and Governor of Cyprus from 1955 to 1957, Cyprus being a British colony at that time....
  
  
• Francis Pym Harding
  Francis Pym Harding
  Francis Pym Harding, was an English army general and the second Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick from 1867 to 1868....
  
  
• Arthur Edward Hardinge
  Arthur Edward Hardinge
  General Sir Arthur Edward Harding KCB CIE was Governor of Gibraltar.-Military career:Born the second son of Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge and educated at Eton College, Hardinge was commissioned into the 41st Regiment of Foot in 1844. He was quickly appointed Aide-de-Camp to his father,...
  
  
• William Hargrave
  William Hargrave
  Lieutenant General William Hargrave was Governor of Gibraltar.-Military career:Hargrave was commissioned into Viscount Charlemonte’s Regiment of Foot in 1694...
  
  
• Charles Harington Harington
  Charles Harington Harington
  General Sir Charles Harington Harington GCB, GBE, DSO, DCL , was a British Army officer most noted for his service during the First World War and Chanak crisis...
  
  
• Charles Henry Pepys Harington
  Charles Henry Pepys Harington
  General Sir Charles Henry Pepys Harington GCB, CBE, DSO, MC was an officer in the British Army. He served in the British Expeditionary Force and in Normandy in the Second World War. He was later Commander-in-Chief of the three-service Middle East Command from 1963 to 1965, based at Aden...
  
  
• Alexander Harley
  Alexander Harley
  General Sir Alexander George Hamilton Harley KBE CB is a former Adjutant-General to the Forces in the United Kingdom.-Military career:...
  
  
• Jack Harman
  Jack Harman
  General Sir Jack Wentworth Harman GCB, OBE, MC is a former Adjutant-General to the Forces. He began his military career in 1940, serving in The Queen's Bays for the majority of his early career and saw service with them during Second World War in the Middle East, Europe and Africa...
  
  
• George Montague Harper
  George Montague Harper
  Lieutenant General Sir George Montague Harper KCB, DSO was a British general during the First World War.-Military career:...
  
  
• Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington
  Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington
  General Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington PC, PC , styled Viscount Petersham until 1779, was a British soldier. Stanhope is sometimes confused with an exact contemporary of his, the 3rd Earl Stanhope....
  
  
• William Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Harrington
  William Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Harrington
  General William Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Harrington was a British politician and soldier.The son of William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, he took up a military career and joined the Foot Guards in 1741, and was also returned for Aylesbury...
  
  
• George Harris, 1st Baron Harris
  George Harris, 1st Baron Harris
  George Harris, 1st Baron Harris GCB was a British soldier.Harris was the son of the Reverend George Harris, curate of Brasted, Kent. He was educated at Westminster School and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, he was commissioned to the Royal Artillery in 1760, transferring to an ensigncy in...
  
  
• Ian Harris
  Ian Harris (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant General Sir Ian Cecil 'Tommy' Harris KBE CB DSO was a British Army General who reached high office in the 1960s.-Military career:Ian Harris was commissioned into the Royal Ulster Rifles in 1930....
  
  
• William Harris, 2nd Baron Harris
  William Harris, 2nd Baron Harris
  William George Harris, 2nd Baron Harris KCH was a British soldier and peer.Harris was the son of George Harris, 1st Baron Harris.He fought under his father during the siege and capture of Seringapatam in 1799 at the age of 17...
  
  
• Major general Desmond Harrison
• Reginald Clare Hart
  Reginald Clare Hart
  General Sir Reginald Clare Hart, VC, GCB, KCVO , was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:Hart was born at Scarriff, County Clare and educated at...
  
  
• Alan Hartley
  Alan Hartley
  General Sir Alan Fleming Hatley GCIE KCSI CB DSO was a British Army General during World War II.-Military career:...
  
  
• Arthur Henry Seton Hart-Synnot
  Arthur Henry Seton Hart-Synnot
  Arthur Henry Seton Hart-Synnot CMG, DSO and Bar was a British Army general. He was educated at Clifton College and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst....
  
  
• Charles Offley Harvey
  Charles Offley Harvey
  Major-General Sir Charles Harvey CB, CVO, CBE, MC was an officer in the British Indian Army during World War I and World War II.He was appointed CVO in 1922 for performing the duties of Assistant Military Secretary to the Prince of Wales during His.Royal Highness's Indian Tour and knighted in...
  
  
• Edward Harvey
  Edward Harvey (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant General Edward Harvey was an Adjutant-General to the Forces.-Military career:Harvey was commissioned as a cornet in the 10th Dragoons in 1741.He served as Aide-de-Camp to the Duke of Cumberland at the Battle of Culloden in 1746....
  
  
• John Harvey
  John Harvey (governor)
  Lieutenant-General Sir John Harvey, KCB KCH was a British Army officer and a Lieutenant Governor.He was commissioned into the 80th Foot in 1794 and served in several different locations, including France, Egypt, and India...
  
  
• Sir Charles Hastings, 1st Baronet
  Sir Charles Hastings, 1st Baronet
  General Sir Charles Hastings, 1st Baronet GCH was a British Army officer.Hastings was the illegitimate son of Francis Hastings, 10th Earl of Huntingdon and an unknown mother. He purchased an Ensigncy in the 12th Foot, in 1776 a Lieutenantcy, and in 1780 a Captaincy...
  
  
• Sir Henry Havelock-Allan, 1st Baronet
• Henry Havelock
  Henry Havelock
  Major-General Sir Henry Havelock, KCB was a British general who is particularly associated with India. He was noted for his recapture of Cawnpore from rebels during Indian Rebellion of 1857.-Early life:...
  
  
• John Hawkesworth
  John Hawkesworth (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant-General Sir John Ledlie Inglis Hawkesworth, KBE, CB, DSO and Bar was an officer in the British Army during World War I and World War II.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Henry Hawley
  Henry Hawley
  Lieutenant General Henry Hawley was a British Army officer who entered the army in 1694.-Early life:He saw service in the War of Spanish Succession as a captain of Erie's Foot. After Almanza he returned to England, and a few years later had become lieutenant-colonel of the 19th...
  
  
• Lord John Hay
• Mian Hayaud Din
• Robert Hayman-Joyce
  Robert Hayman-Joyce
  Lieutenant General Sir Robert John Hayman-Joyce KCB CBE DL is a former Master-General of the Ordnance.-Military career:Hayman Joyce was commissioned into the 11th Hussars in 1963....
  
  
• Lewis Heath
  Lewis Heath
  Lieutenant-General Sir Lewis Macclesfield Heath, KBE, CB, CIE, DSO, MC was an officer in the British Army and the Indian Army during the pre-World War I years, World War I, the interwar years, and World War II...
  
  
• George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield
  George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield
  George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield, KB was a British Army officer who took served in three major wars during the eighteenth century. He rose to distinction during the Seven Years War when he fought in Germany and participated in the British attacks on Belle Île and Cuba...
  
  
• David Henderson
• William Heneker
  William Heneker
  General Sir William Charles Giffard Heneker KCB KCMG DSO was a Canadian born and educated soldier who served with the British Army in West Africa, India, and then later on the western front during the First World War...
  
  
• Arthur James Herbert
  Arthur James Herbert
  General Sir James Arthur Herbert KCB was Quartermaster-General to the Forces.-Military career:Born Arthur James Jones, Herbert was commissioned into the 23rd Regiment of Foot in 1839. Along with other members of his family he changed his surname to Herbert in 1848.He rose through the officer ranks...
  
  
• Otway Herbert
  Otway Herbert
  Lieutenant General Sir Edwin Otway Herbert KBE CB DSO was a British Army General who achieved high command in the 1950s.-Military career:...
  
  
• Percy Egerton Herbert
  Percy Egerton Herbert
  Lieutenant-General Sir Percy Egerton Herbert KCB, PC , was a British Army officer and Conservative politician.-Background and education:...
  
  
• Reginald Hewetson
  Reginald Hewetson
  General Sir Reginald Hackett Hewetson GCB CBE DSO is a fomer Adjutant-General to the Forces.-Military career:...
  
  
• Sir George Hewett, 1st Baronet
  Sir George Hewett, 1st Baronet
  General Sir George Hewett, 1st Baronet GCB, PC was Commander-in-Chief in India and then Commander-in-Chief in Ireland for the British Army.-Military career:...
  
  
• William Bernard Hickie
  William Bernard Hickie
  Sir William Bernard Hickie was an Irish born Major General of the British Army and an Irish nationalist politician....
  
  
• George Higginson
  George Higginson
  General Sir George Wentworth Alexander Higginson, GCB, GCVO was a British general and Crimean War hero who served more than 30 years in the Grenadier Guards.-Military career:...
  
  
• John Hill
  John Hill (courtier)
  Major-General John "Jack" Hill was a British army officer and courtier during the reign of Queen Anne. While of no particular military ability, his family connections brought him promotion and office until the end of Anne's reign....
  
  
• Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill
  Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill
  General Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill of Almaraz GCB, GCH served in the Napoleonic Wars as a trusted brigade, division and corps commander under the command of the Duke of Wellington. He became Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in 1829.-Early career:Educated at a school in Chester, Hill was...
  
  
• James Hills-Johnes
• Sir Thomas Hislop, 1st Baronet
  Sir Thomas Hislop, 1st Baronet
  Sir Thomas Hislop, 1st Baronet, GCB was a senior British Army officer of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Serving exclusively in colonial campaigns, Hislop fought in the West Indies between 1796 and 1810 and subsequently in India, where he was a senior commander during the Third...
  
  
• Percy Hobart
  Percy Hobart
  Major-General Sir Percy Cleghorn Stanley Hobart KBE CB DSO MC , also known as "Hobo", was a British military engineer, noted for his command of the 79th Armoured Division during World War II...
  
  
• Michael Hobbs
• Edward Hodge
  Edward Hodge
  General Sir Edward Cooper Hodge GCB was a British Army officer.He was the son of Major Edward Hodge of the 7th Hussars, a notable soldier who distinguished himself throughout the Napoleonic wars, particularly in the Peninsula and in the campaign leading to the battle of Waterloo, where he was...
  
  
• Daniel Hoghton
  Daniel Hoghton
  Major-General Daniel Hoghton was a talented and experienced British Army officer who served during the Napoleonic Wars with distinction until his death during combat with the French at the Battle of Albuera in the Peninsula War...
  
  
• Arthur Holland
  Arthur Holland (UK politician)
  Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Edward Aveling Holland KCB KCMG DSO MVO was a British Army officer and Conservative and Unionist politician.-Military career:...
  
  
• Spencer Edmund Hollond
  Spencer Edmund Hollond
  Major General Spencer Edmund Hollond CB, CMG, DSO was a British Army staff officer during the First World War.-Life:...
  
  
• Henry Holmes
• William Holmes
  William Holmes (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant-General Sir William George Holmes KBE CB DSO was a British general of the Second World War.-Early life:Holmes was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, and the Royal Military Academy.-Army service:...
  
  
• Arthur Holworthy
• Ralph Hone
• Brigadier Maxwell Richard Julian Hope-Thomson D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C. (1911-1990)
• John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun
  John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun
  Lieutenant General John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun PC KB , known as the Honourable John Hope from 1781 to 1814 and as the Lord Niddry from 1809 to 1816, was a Scottish soldier and politician.-Military career:...
  
  
• George F. Hopkinson
  George F. Hopkinson
  Major-General George Frederick Hopkinson OBE MC was a British Army officer who commanded the 1st Airborne Division during the Second World War...
  
  
• Peregrine Hopson
  Peregrine Hopson
  Peregrine Thomas Hopson was a British army officer who saw extensive service during the Eighteenth Century and rose to the rank of Major General...
  
  
• Henry Horne, 1st Baron Horne
  Henry Horne, 1st Baron Horne
  General Henry Sinclair Horne, 1st Baron Horne GCB, KCMG was a military officer in the British Army, most notable for his generalship during World War I. He was the only British artillery officer to command an army in the war. Until recently Horne was the unknown General of the Great War and did...
  
  
• Brian Horrocks
  Brian Horrocks
  Lieutenant-General Sir Brian Gwynne Horrocks, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC was a British Army officer. He is chiefly remembered as the commander of XXX Corps in Operation Market Garden and other operations during the Second World War...
  
  
• William Horwood
  William Horwood (police commissioner)
  Brigadier-General Sir William Thomas Francis Horwood GBE KCB DSO served as Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of London's Metropolitan Police, from 1920 to 1928.-Military career:...
  
  
• Beaumont Hotham, 3rd Baron Hotham
  Beaumont Hotham, 3rd Baron Hotham
  Beaumont Hotham, 3rd Baron Hotham , was a British soldier, peer and long-standing Conservative Member of Parliament....
  
  
• Nick Houghton
  Nick Houghton
  General Sir John Nicholas Reynolds Houghton, GCB, CBE, ADC Gen. is a senior officer in the British Army, currently serving as Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff, the deputy to the Chief of the Defence Staff, the head of Britain's Armed Forces; based at the Ministry of Defence, London.-Early life:Born...
  
  
• David House
  David House
  Lieutenant General Sir David George House GCB, KCVO, CBE, MC was a British Army officer who was General Officer Commanding in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and later held the office of Black Rod.-Regimental career:...
  
  
• Sir William Houston, 1st Baronet
  Sir William Houston, 1st Baronet
  General Sir William Houston, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCH was a General in the British Army and the Governor of Gibraltar.-Military career:...
  
  
• Charles Howard
  Charles Howard (British Army officer)
  General Sir Charles Howard KB , styled The Honourable from birth, was a British soldier and politician.-Background:...
  
  
• Francis Howard
  Francis Howard (British Army officer)
  Major-General Sir Francis Howard KCB KCMG was a British Army General in the early years of the twentieth century.-Military career:...
  
  
• Patrick Howard-Dobson
  Patrick Howard-Dobson
  General Sir Patrick John Howard-Dobson GCB is a former Quartermaster-General to the Forces.-Military career:...
  
  
• John Cradock, 1st Baron Howden
  John Cradock, 1st Baron Howden
  General John Francis Cradock, 1st Baron Howden GCB was a British peer, politician and soldier.-Life:He was son of John Cradock, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin....
  
  
• Emanuel Scrope Howe
  Emanuel Scrope Howe
  Lieutenant-General Emanuel Scrope Howe , of The Great Lodge, Alice Holt Forest, Hampshire, was an English diplomat, army officer and Member of Parliament.-Life:...
  
  
• George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe
  George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe
  George Augustus Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe was a career officer and a Brigadier General in the British Army. He was described by James Wolfe as "the best officer in the British Army"...
  
  
• Richard Curzon-Howe, 3rd Earl Howe
  Richard Curzon-Howe, 3rd Earl Howe
  Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe, 3rd Earl Howe, GCVO, CB was a British peer and professional soldier....
  
  
• William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe
  William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe
  William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe, KB, PC was a British army officer who rose to become Commander-in-Chief of British forces during the American War of Independence...
  
  
• Geoffrey Howlett
• Hubert Huddleston
  Hubert Huddleston
  Major-General Sir Hubert Jervoise Huddleston GCMG GBE CB DSO MC was General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District.-Military career:...
  
  
• Charles Edward Hudson
  Charles Edward Hudson
  Major General Charles Edward Hudson VC CB DSO & Bar MC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.His was awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in the...
  
  
• Maj-Gen Sir (Charles Patrick) Amyatt Hull, KCB
• Richard Hull
• Peter Hunt
• Archibald Hunter
  Archibald Hunter
  General Sir Archibald Hunter GCB GCVO DSO was a General in the British Army who distinguished himself during the Boer War...
  
  
• Martin Hunter
  Martin Hunter (British Army officer)
  General Sir Martin Hunter, GCH, GCMG was a British Army officer, and governor of Stirling Castle.In 1797, he married Scottish heiress Jean Dickson . They had a large family....
  
  
• Peter Hunter
  Peter Hunter
  Lieutenant-General Peter Hunter was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. He was eldest son to John Hunter laird of Knapp and Euphemia Jack of Longforgan, Perthshire, Scotland....
  
  
• Robert Hunter
• Aylmer Hunter-Weston
  Aylmer Hunter-Weston
  Lieutenant-General Sir Aylmer Gould Hunter-Weston KCB DSO GStJ was a British Army general who served in World War I at Gallipoli and the Somme Offensive...
  
  
• John Huske
  John Huske
  John Huske was a British Army general known for his leadership at the Battle of Falkirk and the Battle of Culloden during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745...
  
  
• Robert Hutchison, 1st Baron Hutchison of Montrose
  Robert Hutchison, 1st Baron Hutchison of Montrose
  Major-General Robert Hutchison, 1st Baron Hutchison of Montrose KCMG, CB, DSO, PC was a Scottish soldier and Liberal politician.-Background:Hutchison was the son of Alexander Hutchison, of Braehead, Kirkcaldy, Fife...
  
  
• Edward Hutton
• Thomas Jacomb Hutton
  Thomas Jacomb Hutton
  Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Jacomb Hutton , KCB, KCIE, MC, was an officer in the British Army, who held a variety of vital staff appointments between World War I and World War II, ultimately commanding Burma Army during the early stages of the Japanese conquest of Burma.-Early career, and World...
  
  
• Charles Huxtable
  Charles Huxtable (British Army officer)
  General Sir Charles Huxtable KCB CBE DL is a former Commander in Chief, UK Land Forces.-Army career:Educated at Wellington College, Charles Huxtable was commissioned into the Duke of Wellington's Regiment in February 1952 and served as a platoon commander in the latter stages of the Korean War...
  
  

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• William Inglis
  William Inglis
  Lieutenant General Sir William Inglis, KCB was a British officer of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars....
  
  
• James John McLeod Innes
  James John McLeod Innes
  Lieutenant General James John McLeod Innes VC CB was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.Born in British India to Scottish parents Innes was educated...
  
  
• Alistair Irwin
  Alistair Irwin
  General Sir Alistair Stuart Hastings Irwin KCB CBE is a former Adjutant-General to the Forces in the United Kingdom and Commandant of Sandhurst.-Army career:...
  
  
• James Murray Irwin
  James Murray Irwin
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• John Irwin
  John Irwin (British Army officer)
  General Sir John Irwin KB was a British Army officer.-Career:Educated in Ireland, Irwin was commissioned into the 5th Regiment of Foot in 1736...
  
  
• General Hastings Lionel Baron Ismay of Wormington
  Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay
  General Hastings Lionel "Pug" Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, KG, GCB, CH, DSO, PC was a British Indian Army officer and diplomat, remembered primarily for his role as Winston Churchill's chief military assistant during the Second World War and his service as the first Secretary General of NATO from 1952...
  
   (1887–1965)
• Adrian Beare Incledon-Webber GOC Infantry Brigade
• Charles St Maur Ingham CRA
• John Darnley Ingles GOC Infantry Brigade
• Edward Charles Ingouville-Williams GOC Infantry Division
• William Edmund Ironside GOC Infantry Brigade
• Alfred Ernest Irvine GOC Infantry Brigade
• Godfrey George Howy Irving GOC Infantry Brigade
• Brigadier Cecil Edward Ronald Ince (1897–1988)
• Brigadier Frederick Reed Inglis (1896- )
• Major-General George Henry Inglis (1902–1979)
• Major-General Sir John Drummond Inglis (1895–1965)
• Brigadier John Innes (1907- )
• Major-General Roland Debenham Inskip (1885–1971)
• Lieutenant-General Noel Mackintosh Stuart Irwin
  Noel Irwin
  Lieutenant General Noel Mackintosh Stuart Irwin CB, DSO & Two Bars, MC was a British soldier, who played a prominent role in the British Army after the Dunkirk evacuation, and in the Burma Campaign...
  
   (1892–1972)
• Major-General Stephen Fenemore Irwin (1895–1964)
• Brigadier Thomas Ivor-Moore (1897–1946)

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• Archibald Jack
  Archibald Jack
  Brigadier-General Archibald Jack CB CMG CBE was a New Zealand-born railway engineer and British Army officer.Jack was educated at Otago Boys' High School and began his career in the New Zealand Department of Public Works in 1893. He was commissioned into the 9th Battalion, New Zealand Regiment on...
  
  
• James Lochhead Jack
  James Lochhead Jack
  Brigadier General James Lochhead Jack DSO & Bar was a British officer who fought during the First World War. He became a war hero after coming back from the trenches, but his character was never the same again...
  
  
• Arnold Jackson
  Arnold Jackson
  Brigadier-General Arnold Nugent Strode Strode-Jackson CBE DSO & Three Bars was a British athlete, British Army officer, and a barrister. He was the winner of the 1500m at the 1912 Summer Olympics, in what was hailed at the time as "the greatest race ever run"...
  
  
• Henry Jackson
  Henry Jackson (British Army officer)
  General Sir Henry Cholmondeley Jackson KCB CMG DSO was a British Army General who achieved high office in the 1930s.-Military career:...
  
  
• Mike Jackson
  Mike Jackson
  General Sir Michael David "Mike" Jackson, is a retired British Army officer and one of its most high-profile generals since the Second World War. Originally commissioned into the Intelligence Corps in 1963, he transferred to the Parachute Regiment, with whom he served two of his three tours of...
  
  
• Richard Downes Jackson
  Richard Downes Jackson
  Sir Richard Downes Jackson KCB was Administrator of Canada West and Canada East until the arrival of Sir Charles Bagot who took the position of Governor General of the Province of Canada.- External links :*...
  
  
• William Jackson
• Claud Jacob
  Claud Jacob
  Field-Marshal Sir Claud William Jacob GCB GCSI KCMG was a British Army officer who served in the First World War.-Military career:...
  
  
• Ian Jacob
  Ian Jacob
  Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Ian Claud Jacob GBE, CB, , known as Ian Jacob, was the Military Assistant Secretary to Winston Churchill's war cabinet and later a distinguished broadcasting executive, serving as the Director-General of the BBC from 1952 to 1960.-Early life:Jacob was born in 1899 in...
  
  
• Henry James
  Henry James (Ordnance Survey)
  Major General Sir Henry James FRS MRIA RE was the director-general of the Ordnance Survey, the British Government mapping agency, from 1854 to 1875. Sir Henry was described by the agency itself as "perhaps Ordnance Survey's most eccentric and egotistical Director General"...
  
  
• Millis Jefferis
  Millis Jefferis
  Major-General Sir Millis Rowland Jefferis KBE MC was, during the Second World War, the founder of a special unit of the British Ministry of Supply which developed unusual weapons.-Early career:...
  
  
• George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys
• David Jenkins
• Henry Edward Jerome
  Henry Edward Jerome
  Major General Henry Edward Jerome was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Career:...
  
  
• William Jervois
  William Jervois
  Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, GCMG, CB was a British military engineer who saw service, as Second Captain, in South Africa...
  
  
• Dudley Graham Johnson
  Dudley Graham Johnson
  Major General Dudley Graham Johnson VC, CB, DSO & Bar, MC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Military career:Johnson served with the Wiltshire Regiment...
  
  
• Garry Johnson
  Garry Johnson
  General Sir Garry Dene Johnson KCB OBE MC was Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces Northern Europe.-Military career:Garry Johnson was commissioned into the 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles in 1956. He served in Malaysia during the Malaysian Emergency...
  
  
• Francis Earl Johnston
  Francis Earl Johnston
  Brigadier-General Francis Earl Johnston, C.B. was a New Zealand army officer of the First World War. He was commander of the 1st New Zealand Infantry Brigade in France.-Early life:...
  
  
• Maurice Robert Johnston
  Maurice Robert Johnston
  Lieutenant-General Sir Maurice Robert Johnston KCB CVO OBE is the former Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff, 1981–1982, and Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire from 5 July 1996 to 10 November 2004.-Early life and army career:...
  
  
• Alan Jolly
  Alan Jolly
  General Sir Alan Jolly GCB CBE DSO is a former Quartermaster-General to the Forces.-Military career:Jolly was commissioned into the Royal Tank Corps in 1931...
  
  
• Edward Jones
• John Thomas Jones
  John Thomas Jones
  Sir John Thomas Jones was a British major-general in the Royal Engineers who played a leading engineering role in a number of European campaigns of the early nineteenth century.-Biography:...
  
  
• Love Jones-Parry
• David Judd

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• Katharine, Duchess of Kent
• Richard Kane
  Richard Kane
  Brigadier General Richard Kane was a British Army General.-Origins:Born to Thomas O'Cahan and his wife, Margaret Dobbin, at his mother's home in Duneane, County Antrim, Ireland, in December 1662...
  
  
• John Keane, 1st Baron Keane
  John Keane, 1st Baron Keane
  John Keane, 1st Baron Keane, GCB, GCH was a British soldier.Keane was born in Belmont, Ireland, the second son of Sir John Keane, 1st Baronet. He joined the British Army as an Ensign at age 11 in 1792. He rose the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the 60th Foot and commanded a brigade in the...
  
  
• Lt Gen Sir John Manley Arbuthnot Keane, 3rd Baron, GCB, GCH
• Henry Sheehy Keating
  Henry Sheehy Keating
  Lieutenant General Sir Henry Sheehy Keating KCB was born at Bansha, County Tipperary in Ireland and was an officer of the British Army during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars who served in two important operations against French colonies...
  
  
• Richard Harte Keatinge
  Richard Harte Keatinge
  Lieutenant General Richard Harte Keatinge VC CSI was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Life and career:Keatinge was born in Dublin...
  
  
• Charles Keightley
  Charles Keightley
  General Sir Charles Frederic Keightley, GCB, GBE, DSO was a senior officer in the British Army during and following World War II.-Military career:...
  
  
• Robert Kekewich
  Robert Kekewich
  Major General Robert George Kekewich CB was a Victorian era British Army officer.Kekewich was the second son of Trehawke Kekewich, of Peamore House, near Exeter, Devon, and the grandson of Samuel Trehawke Kekewich...
  
  
• Vernon Kell
• Thomas Kelly-Kenny
  Thomas Kelly-Kenny
  General Sir Thomas Kelly-Kenny GCB GCVO was a British Army general who served in the Second Boer War.-Military career:Kelly-Kenny was born on 27 February 1840 at Doolough Lodge, Treanmanagh near Mullagh in County Clare, Ireland. He was educated as a lay student at St. Patrick's College, Carlow, he...
  
  
• George Kemball
  George Kemball
  Major-General Sir George Vero Kemball, KCMG, CB, DSO, R.A. was a British Army officer of the 19th and early 20th century. He was a career officer in the British Army spending most of his career in India and Africa.- Early life and family :...
  
  
• James Kempt
  James Kempt
  General Sir James Kempt, GCB was a British Army officer, who served in Holland, Egypt, Italy, the Peninsula, and British North America during the Napoleonic Wars...
  
  
• Douglas Kendrew
  Douglas Kendrew
  Major General Sir Douglas Anthony Kendrew, KCMG, CB, CBE, DSO & Three Bars, was a British rugby player and military officer, who became Governor of Western Australia 1963-1974.- Early years :...
  
  
• Paul Aloysius Kenna
  Paul Aloysius Kenna
  Brigadier General Paul Aloysius Kenna VC DSO was an English born British Army officer of Irish descent and recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that could be awarded to British and British Empire forces.-Background:He was...
  
  
• Brian Kenny
  Brian Kenny (British Army officer)
  General Sir Brian Leslie Graham Kenny GCB CBE is a British Army General who was Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe.-Military career:Educated at Canford School, Brian Kenny was commissioned into the 4th Queen's Own Hussars in 1954....
  
  
• William Keppel (governor)
  William Keppel (governor)
  General Sir William Keppel GCB was a British soldier and colonial administrator.He entered the army as an ensign in the 25th Regiment of Foot on January 25, and became a lieutenant in the 60th Regiment of Foot March 4, 1777...
  
  
• William Keppel (British Army officer)
• Walter Ker
• Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet
  Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet
  General Sir Edward Kerrison, 1st Baronet, GCH, KCB was a British Army officer and politician.Kerrison was a Lieutenant-Colenel in the Seventh Light Dragoons when he, with Charles Wetherell petitioned parliament over electoral malpractice in the parliamentary elections for Shafstubry...
  
  
• Berthold Wells Key
  Berthold Wells Key
  Major-General Berthold Wells 'Billy' Key CB, DSO, MC, ADC was a British Indian Army officer.- History :...
  
  
• Iftikhar Khan
  Iftikhar Khan
  Major General Muhammed Iftikhar Khan was an officer inherited by the Pakistan Army from British India. He had been nominated to become the first local Commander in Chief of the Pakistan Army after General Douglas David Gracey's retirement...
  
  
• Muhammad Anwar Khan
  Muhammad Anwar Khan
  Lieutenant-General Raja Muhammad Anwar Khan was the Pakistan army engineer officer and the first engineer in Chief of the Pakistan Army. He was the first Muslim to be an officer in the Indian Corps of Engineers.- Ethnicity :...
  
  
• Muhammed Akbar Khan
  Muhammed Akbar Khan
  General Muhammed Akbar Khan , OBE served as a British Indian recruit in the First World War and an officer in Second World War. Muhammed Akbar Khan was the first Muslim from the South Asia to become a General in British Army. At the time of independence of Pakistan, he was the most senior Muslim...
  
  
• Muhammed Zafar Khan
  Muhammed Zafar Khan
  Brigadier General Muhammed Zafar Khan was the first South Asian Commander in the Cavalry.Khan belongs to the Minhas Rajput clan of Chakwal. His father Sirdar Bahadur, Raja Fazal Dad Khan was a hereditary Landlord and was commissioned with a British Army cavalry unit.Five of Muhammed Zafar Khan...
  
  
• Francis Needham, 1st Earl of Kilmorey
  Francis Needham, 1st Earl of Kilmorey
  Francis Needham, 1st Earl of Kilmorey , known as Francis Needham until 1818 and as The Viscount Kilmorey from 1818 to 1822, was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Member of Parliament....
  
  
• Brian Kimmins
  Brian Kimmins
  Lieutenant General Sir Brian Charles Hannam Kimmins KBE CB was General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District.-Military career:...
  
  
• Frank King
  Frank King (British Army officer)
  General Sir Frank Douglas King GCB MBE was a British Army officer who was General Officer Commanding of the British Army in Northern Ireland at the height of the Troubles...
  
  
• Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull
  Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull
  General Evelyn Pierrepont, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, KG was the only son of William Pierrepont, Earl of Kingston and his wife Rachel Bayntun ....
  
  
• Walter Mervyn St George Kirke
  Walter Mervyn St George Kirke
  General Sir Walter Mervyn St George Kirke GCB CMG DSO was the Commander in Chief of the British Home Forces during the Second World War.-Military career:...
  
  
• Lamont Kirkland
• Sidney Kirkman
  Sidney Kirkman
  General Sir Sidney Chevalier Kirkman GCB, KBE, MC was a general in the British Armed Forces from 1944 to 1950 and Director General of Civil Defence in the Civil Defence Department from 1954 to 1960.-Biography:...
  
  
• George Macaulay Kirkpatrick
  George Macaulay Kirkpatrick
  General Sir George Macaulay Kirkpatrick KCMG KCSI was a Canadian born and educated soldier who served with the British Army in South Africa, Canada, India, Australia, and China. He became one of only a handful of Canadians to reach the rank of full General....
  
  
• Frederick Kisch
  Frederick Kisch
  Frederick Kisch was a British Army officer and Zionist leader.-Biography:Frederick Kisch was born in India in 1888, and served in the British Army Royal Engineers...
  
  
• John Kiszely
  John Kiszely
  Lieutenant General Sir John Panton Kiszely KCB, MC was Director of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. In December 2008 he was appointed as the National President of The Royal British Legion.-Military career:...
  
  
• Walter Kitchener
  Walter Kitchener
  Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Walter Kitchener KCB , known as Walter Kitchener, was a British soldier and colonial administrator.-Military career:...
  
  
• Frank Kitson
  Frank Kitson
  General Sir Frank Edward Kitson GBE, KCB, MC and Bar, DL is a retired British Army officer and writer on military subjects, notably low intensity operations...
  
  
• William Thomas Knollys
  William Thomas Knollys
  General Sir William Thomas Knollys KCB was a British Army General who reached high office in the 1860s.-Military career:...
  
  
• Alfred Knox
• Charles Edmond Knox
  Charles Edmond Knox
  Lieutenant General Sir Charles Edmond Knox KCB was an Anglo-Irish soldier of the British Army.-Early life:...
  
  
• Harry Knox
  Harry Knox
  General Sir Harry Hugh Sidney Knox KCB DSO is a former Adjutant-General to the Forces.-Military career:Educated at St. Columba's College, Harry Knox was commissioned into the Northamptonshire Regiment in 1893. He served on the North-West Frontier between 1897 and 1898.He fought in World War I and...
  
  

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• Alexander Leith Hay
  Alexander Leith Hay
  Alexander Leith Hay [formerly Alexander Leith] , was a British army officer.-Life:Hay was born in Aberdeen on 21 December 1758, the second son of John Leith of Leith Hall, Aberdeenshire and his wife, Harriet Alexander Leith Hay [formerly Alexander Leith] (1758–1838), was a British army...
  
  
• Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake
  Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake
  General Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake was a British general. He commanded British forces during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 and later served as Commander-in-Chief of the military in British India.-Background:...
  
  
• Percy Lake
  Percy Lake
  General Sir Percy Henry Noel Lake, KCB, KCMG was a senior commander of the British Indian Army, serving during World War I, and a Canadian soldier.- Career :...
  
  
• Graeme Lamb
  Graeme Lamb
  Lieutenant-General Sir Graeme Cameron Maxwell Lamb, KBE, CMG, DSO is a retired British Army officer. He is a former Commander of the Field Army at Land Command, known for his contributions to counter-insurgency.-Career:...
  
  
• John Lambert
• John Lambton
  John Lambton
  Major-General John Lambton of Harraton Hall, later of Lambton Castle, County Durham, was a British soldier and Member of Parliament.Lambton was the fourth son of Ralph Lambton...
  
  
• George Lammie
  George Lammie
  Major-General George Lammie was an officer in the British Army during World War II.As a Brigadier, Lammie commanded British forces during the occupation of Iceland.As a Major-General, Lammie was involved with forces in the central Mediterranean....
  
  
• Herman Landon
  Herman Landon
  Major-General Herman James Shelley Landon, CB, CMG, , was a British Army officer. During the Boer War he commanded a battalion, and was promoted in the interwar period to take command of a brigade in the British Expeditionary Force...
  
  
• Algernon Philip Yorke Langhorne
  Algernon Philip Yorke Langhorne
  Algernon Philip Yorke Langhorne CB, DSO, MC was a Major-General in the British Army....
  
  
• Harold Stephen Langhorne
  Harold Stephen Langhorne
  Harold Stephen Langhorne was a Brigadier-General in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps of the British army and served in India, Burma, Hong Kong, South Africa and France.- Early life :He was the son of Reverend John Langhorne, headmaster of King's School, Rochester and Henrietta Long of...
  
  
• Gerald Lathbury
  Gerald Lathbury
  General Sir Gerald William Lathbury, GCB, DSO, MBE was a British Army officer during the Second World War and later became Governor of Gibraltar-Military career:...
  
  
• Percy Laurie
  Percy Laurie
  Major-General Sir Percy Robert Laurie KCVO CBE DSO was a British Army and police officer.Laurie was born in Sevenoaks, Kent, and educated at Harrow School. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 3rd London Volunteer Rifle Corps in August 1901 and transferred to the Regular Army in the Royal...
  
  
• Robert Law
  Robert Law
  Lieutenant-General Robert A. Law was a British Army officer and colonial administrator for the colony of Newfoundland....
  
  
• Sydney Turing Barlow Lawford
  Sydney Turing Barlow Lawford
  Lieutenant-General Sir Sydney Turing Barlow Lawford, KCB was a British Army officer, and the father of movie star Peter Lawford.-Biography:...
  
  
• Charles Lawrence
• George St Patrick Lawrence
• Henry Merrick Lawson
  Henry Merrick Lawson
  Lieutenant General Sir Henry Merrick Lawson KCB was a British Army General during World War I.-Military career:...
  
  
• Richard Lawson
  Richard Lawson (British Army officer)
  General Sir Richard George Lawson KCB, DSO, OBE, KCSS is a former British Army officer, who served as General Officer Commanding in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and later as Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces Northern Europe....
  
  
• Robert Laycock
  Robert Laycock
  Major General Sir Robert Edward Laycock KCMG, CB, DSO, KStJ was a British soldier, most famous for his service with the commandos during the Second World War...
  
  
• Roger Eustace Le Fleming
  Roger Eustace Le Fleming
  Major-General Roger Eustace Le Fleming was an officer in the British Indian Army during World War II.As part of Paiforce , Brigadier Le Fleming commanded the 24th Indian Brigade attached to the Indian 8th Infantry Division during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia...
  
  
• John Le Marchant
• John Le Marchant
• Edward Pemberton Leach
  Edward Pemberton Leach
  General Sir Edward Pemberton Leach VC KCB KCVO was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces...
  
  
• Henry Leach
  Henry Leach (British Army officer)
  Brigadier-General Henry Edmund Burleigh Leach CB CMG CVO was a British Army officer.The son of Major-General Sir Edmund Leach of Corston House, Pembrokeshire, he was educated at Uppingham School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, where he won the Sword of Honour...
  
  
• David Leakey
  David Leakey
  Lieutenant-General Arundell David Leakey CMG, CBE is a former British military commander. He was Director General of the European Union Military Staff in the Council of the European Union, Brussels...
  
  
• John Learmont
• Henry Leask
  Henry Leask
  Lieutenant General Sir Henry Lowther Ewart Clark Leask KCB DSO OBE was a British Army General who held high command during the 1960s.-Military career:Henry Leask was commissioned into the Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1936....
  
  
• Oliver Leese
  Oliver Leese
  Lieutenant-General Sir Oliver William Hargreaves Leese, 3rd Baronet, KCB, CBE, DSO was a British general during World War II.-Early years:...
  
  
• William Knox Leet
  William Knox Leet
  William Knox-Leet VC CB , was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
  
  
• John Henry Lefroy
  John Henry Lefroy
  Sir John Henry Lefroy, KCMG, CB, FRS, was a British military man and later colonial administrator who also distinguished himself with his scientific studies of the Earth's magnetism.- Biography :...
  
  
• William Boog Leishman
  William Boog Leishman
  Lieutenant-General Sir William Boog Leishman FRS was a Scottish pathologist and British Army medical officer. He was Director-General of Army Medical Services from 1923 to 1926....
  
  
• James Leith
• Peter Leng
  Peter Leng
  General Sir Peter John Hall Leng, KCB, MBE, MC was a British Army General & Master-General of the Ordnance & Counter Terrorism Expert in Northern Ireland.-Military service:...
  
  
• Lord George Lennox
  Lord George Lennox
  General Lord George Henry Lennox was the second son of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, and was thus descended from King Charles II of England. He was a brother of the famous Lennox sisters.-Military career:...
  
  
• Wilbraham Lennox
• Walter Lentaigne
• Major General Alexander Leslie (1731 – 1794)
• John Sydney Lethbridge
  John Sydney Lethbridge
  Major-General John Sydney Lethbridge CB CBE MC was a British soldier.-Early life:The son of Lt-Col. Sydney Lethbridge, OBE RA, Lethbridge was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Uppingham School, Leicestershire, the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and Jesus College, Cambridge.-Career:He was...
  
  
• Ernest Lewin
  Ernest Lewin
  Major-General Ernest Ord Lewin CB CMG DSO was General Officer Commanding Malaya Command.-Military career:Ernest Lewin was educated at Winchester College, for whom he played cricket, and King's College, Cambridge. Lewin was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1900...
  
  
• Claude Liardet
  Claude Liardet
  Major-General Sir Claude Francis Liardet KBE CB DSO DL was a British Army artillery officer during World War I. During World War II, he commanded the 1st London Division which was re-designated the 56th Infantry Division in 1940....
  
  
• Edward Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier
  Edward Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier
  Lieutenant General Edward Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier KB was a British soldier and courtier. He was the illegitimate son of Col. Francis Augustus Ligonier, the brother of John Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier....
  
  
• Luke Lillingstone
  Luke Lillingstone
  Luke Lillingstone or Lillingston was a British Army officer.Both Lillingstone's father, Henry Lillingstone, and maternal uncle, Thomas Dolman, were colonels in the Anglo-Dutch Brigade. Luke was himself first commissioned as an officer in the Brigade in 1673...
  
  
• Louis Lillywhite
  Louis Lillywhite
  Lieutenant-General Louis Patrick Lillywhite, CB, MBE, QHP is a British Army physician and officer. He was Surgeon-General of the British Armed Forces from 2006 until December 2009.-Background:...
  
  
• James Lindsay
• Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey
  Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey
  Lieutenant-General Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey was a British nobleman and general.He was the son of Peregrine Bertie, a barrister and great-great-grandson of Montagu Bertie, 2nd Earl of Lindsey....
  
  
• Louis Lipsett
  Louis Lipsett
  Major General Louis James Lipsett CB, CMG , was a senior officer in the British Army and Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. He commanded the 3rd Canadian Division during some of the bitterest battles of the war, taking over in 1915 after his predecessor was killed...
  
  
• Owen Edward Pennefather Lloyd
  Owen Edward Pennefather Lloyd
  Sir Owen Edward Pennefather Lloyd VC KCB was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
  
  
• Wilfrid Lewis Lloyd
  Wilfrid Lewis Lloyd
  Major-General Wilfrid Lewis Lloyd CBE, DSO, MC was an officer in the British Army and the Indian Army during World War I and World War II.-World War I:...
  
  
• Edward Loch, 2nd Baron Loch
  Edward Loch, 2nd Baron Loch
  Major-General Edward Douglas Loch, 2nd Baron Loch CB, CMG, DSO, MVO was a senior British Army officer and peer....
  
  
• Kenneth Loch
  Kenneth Loch
  Lieutenant General Sir Kenneth Morley Loch, KCIE, KBE, CB, MC, was a Scottish soldier and defence planner.-Military career:Loch was educated at Wellington College. Joining the Royal Artillery in 1910, Loch saw action in during the First World War at retreat from Mons and the battles of Marne and...
  
  
• Rupert Lochner
  Rupert Lochner
  Rupert Lochner was an officer in the British Indian Army during World War II.As part of Paiforce , Lochner commanded the 18th Indian Brigade of the Indian 8th Infantry Division during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia....
  
  
• Rob Lockhart
  Rob Lockhart
  General Sir Robert McGregor MacDonald Lockhart KCB CIE MC was a British Indian Army general of World War II and an early Scouting notable.-Military career:...
  
  
• William Lockhart
• Charles Loewen
  Charles Loewen
  General Sir Charles Falkland Loewen GCB, KBE, DSO was a Canadian born and educated soldier who became Adjutant-General to the Forces in the United Kingdom.-Military career:...
  
  
• Samuel Lomax
  Samuel Lomax
  Lieutenant General Samuel Holt Lomax was a senior and highly respected British general who served in the opening months of World War I and was the first British Lieutenant Generals to be killed on active service during the entire war.-Military service:Born in August 1855 to Thomas and Mary Helen...
  
  
• Robert Ballard Long
  Robert Ballard Long
  Lieutenant-General Robert Ballard Long was an officer of the British and Hanoverian Armies who despite extensive service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars never managed to achieve high command due to his abrasive manner with his superiors and his alleged tactical ineptitude...
  
  
• Walter Long
  Walter Long (British Army officer)
  Brigadier General Walter Long CMG, DSO was a British soldier.The eldest son of the 1st Viscount Long and his wife Lady Dorothy Boyle, he was baptized 11 September 1879 at St John's Church, West Ashton, Trowbridge, Wiltshire.- Military career :Educated at Harrow, he joined the Royal Scots Greys in...
  
  
• Charles Longcroft
  Charles Longcroft
  Air Vice Marshal Sir Charles Alexander Holcombe Longcroft KCB, CMG, DSO, AFC was a pilot and squadron commander in the Royal Flying Corps who went on to become a senior commander in the Royal Air Force.-Early years:...
  
  
• Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford
  Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford
  Thomas Pakenham, 5th Earl of Longford KP, MVO , known as Lord Silchester until 1887, was an Irish peer and soldier....
  
  
• William Kerr, 2nd Marquess of Lothian
  William Kerr, 2nd Marquess of Lothian
  Lieutenant-General William Kerr, 2nd Marquis of Lothian, KT was a Scottish peer and soldier. He was styled Master of Newbattle until 1675, Lord Newbattle from 1675 to 1692, and was the 5th Lord Jedburgh from 1692 to 1703.Kerr was the eldest son of Robert Kerr, 1st Marquis of Lothian and his wife,...
  
  
• William Kerr, 4th Marquess of Lothian
  William Kerr, 4th Marquess of Lothian
  General William Henry Kerr, 4th Marquess of Lothian KT was a Scottish nobleman, soldier and politician, the eldest son of William Kerr, 3rd Marquess of Lothian. He was styled Master of Jedburgh until 1722, Lord Jedburgh from 1722 to 1735, and Earl of Ancram from 1735 to 1767...
  
  
• Simon Fraser of Lovat
• Simon Fraser, 14th Lord Lovat
  Simon Fraser, 14th Lord Lovat
  Brigadier-General Simon Joseph Fraser, 14th Lord Lovat and 3rd Baron Lovat KT, GCVO, KCMG, CB, DSO , was a leading Roman Catholic aristocrat, landowner, soldier, politician and the 23rd Chief of Clan Fraser. He was the son of Simon Fraser, 13th Lord Lovat, and Alice Mary Weld-Blundell...
  
  
• Hudson Lowe
  Hudson Lowe
  Sir Hudson Lowe KCB, GCMG was an Anglo-Irish soldier and colonial administrator who is best known for his time as Governor of St Helena where he was the "gaoler" of Napoleon Bonaparte.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• W. H. M. Lowe
• Cecil Lowther
  Cecil Lowther
  Major-General Sir Cecil Lowther, KCMG, CB, CVO, DSO, FRGS was a British general and Conservative politician, the fourth son of William Lowther....
  
  
• Richard Luard
  Richard Luard
  Lieutenant-General Richard George Amherst Luard, CB was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding the Militia of Canada.-Military career:...
  
  
• Henry Lukin
  Henry Lukin
  Major General Sir Henry Timson Lukin KCB, CMG, DSO was a South African military commander. He fought in the Anglo-Zulu War and the Basutoland Gun War , the Bechuanaland Campaign , and the Anglo-Boer War when he was in command of the artillery during the defence of Wepener for which action he was...
  
  
• Henry Lumley
  Henry Lumley
  General Henry Lumley was a British soldier and Governor of Jersey.He was the second son of John Lumley and Mary Compton, and younger brother of Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough....
  
  
• William Lumley
  William Lumley
  General Sir William Lumley, GCB was a senior British Army officer and courtier during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The son of the Earl of Scarborough, Lumley enjoyed a rapid rise through the ranks aided by a reputation for bravery and professionalism established on campaign...
  
  
• Frederick William Lumsden
  Frederick William Lumsden
  Brigadier General Frederick William Lumsden VC, CB, DSO & Three Bars was a British officer in Royal Marine Artillery and later the General Staff, during the First World War...
  
  
• Harry Burnett Lumsden
  Harry Burnett Lumsden
  Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Burnett "Joe" Lumsden was a British military officer active in India.Lumsden was born aboard the East India Company’s ship Rose in the Bay of Bengal, the son of a British Army Colonel Thomas Lumsden, C.B...
  
  
• Herbert Lumsden
  Herbert Lumsden
  Lieutenant-General Herbert Lumsden, CB, DSO, MC, psc was a British Army general during World War II.-Early career:...
  
  
• Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch
  Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch
  General Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch, GCB, GCMG, GCTE was a Scottish aristocrat, politician and British Army officer....
  
  
• Humphrey Lyons
  Humphrey Lyons
  Humphrey Lyons was born Hampshire, England in 1802, the ninth of twelve sons of John Lyons of Antigua and St Austin's, Hants, and Catherine , daughter of Maine Swete Walrond, 5th Marquis de Vallado....
  
  
• Daniel Lysons
  Daniel Lysons (British Army officer)
  General Sir Daniel Lysons GCB was a British Army general who achieved high office in the 1870s.-Military career:...
  
  
• Harry Hammon Lyster
  Harry Hammon Lyster
  Lieutenant General Harry Hammon Lyster VC, CB was an Anglo-Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:He was 27 years old and a lieutenant in the 72nd Bengal...
  
  
• Neville Lyttelton
  Neville Lyttelton
  General Sir Neville Gerald Lyttelton GCB, GCVO, PC was a British Army Officer. He served as Chief of the General Staff.-Army career:...
  
  
• Richard Lyttelton
  Richard Lyttelton
  Lt-General Sir Richard Lyttelton KB was a British soldier and politician who served in the British Army. He was the fourth son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 4th Baronet. He served as Governor of Minorca from 1763 until 1766 after its restoration to British rule following the fall of Minorca to the...
  
  

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• Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood
  Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood
  The Princess Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood was a member of the British Royal Family; she was the third child and only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. She was the sixth holder of the title of Princess Royal...
  
  
• Edward Macarthur
  Edward Macarthur
  Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Macarthur KCB was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, an administrator active in Australia and Commander-in-chief of Her Majesty's forces in Australia from 1855.-Early life:...
  
  
• William McBean
  William McBean
  Major-General William McBean VC was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
  
  
• Charles MacCarthy
  Charles MacCarthy (governor)
  Brigadier-General Sir Charles MacCarthy KCMG was an Irish-born soldier who served in the French, Dutch and British armies, and was a governor of various British territories in West Africa....
  
  
• John McColl
  John McColl
  General Sir John Chalmers McColl KCB, CBE, DSO is the current Lieutenant Governor of Jersey. He was sworn in on 26 September 2011. He was formerly Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe.-Army career:...
  
  
• Frederick McCracken
  Frederick McCracken
  Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick William Nicholas McCracken, KCB, DSO, was a British Army officer who saw regimental service in Africa during the late nineteenth century, and later held senior command during the First World War...
  
  
• Richard McCreery
  Richard McCreery
  General Sir Richard Loudon McCreery GCB, KBE, DSO, MC , was a British career soldier, who was Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, at the time of the Second Battle of El Alamein and later commanded the British Eighth Army in Northern Italy during...
  
  
• Godfrey Macdonald, 3rd Baron Macdonald of Slate
  Godfrey Macdonald, 3rd Baron Macdonald of Slate
  Lt.-General Sir Godfrey Bosville Macdonald, 3rd Baron Macdonald of Slate was the second son of Alexander Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald and Elizabeth Diana Bosville...
  
  
• Hector MacDonald
  Hector MacDonald
  Major-General Sir Hector Archibald MacDonald, also known as Fighting Mac , was a distinguished Victorian soldier....
  
  
• John Macdonald
  John Macdonald (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant General Sir John Macdonald GCB is a former Adjutant-General to the Forces.-Military career:John Macdonald was commissioned into the 89th Regiment of Foot in 1795....
  
  
• James Macdonnell
  James Macdonnell
  General Sir James Macdonnell, GCB, KMT, KCH was the third son of Duncan Macdonnell of Glengarry.- Military career :In 1794, he was a lieutenant in the 78th Regiment of Foot; in 1795, he was Captain in the 17th Dragoons....
  
  
• George Macdonogh
  George Macdonogh
  Lieutenant General Sir George Mark Watson Macdonogh GBE, KCB, KCMG was a British Army general officer. After early service in the Royal Engineers he became a staff officer prior to the outbreak of the First World War, and held a series of intelligence posts during the war.-Early career:Macdonogh...
  
  
• Robert McDouall
  Robert McDouall
  Major-General Robert McDouall was a Scottish-born officer in the British Army, who saw much action during the Napoleonic Wars and the Anglo-American War of 1812...
  
  
• Patrick Leonard MacDougall
  Patrick Leonard MacDougall
  Sir Patrick Leonard MacDougall, KCMG was a British General and author. He was born at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, only son of Lieutenant Colonel Sir Duncan MacDougall and Anne, daughter of Colonel Cornelius Smelt , Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man.He married, firstly, Louisa Augusta Napier...
  
  
• Charles MacGregor
  Charles MacGregor
  Major-General Sir Charles Metcalfe MacGregor KCB CSI CIE was an Anglo-Indian explorer, geographer and officer of the British Indian Army. He was the Quartermaster General for the British Army in India, the head of the Intelligence Department for the British Indian Army and served under Frederick...
  
  
• Alexander Anderson McHardy
  Alexander Anderson McHardy
  Major-General Alexander Anderson McHardy DSO is the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Alexander Burness McHardy and Elsie Norrie Anderson. He was married to Lilian Amy McHardy in 1904....
  
  
• Duncan Sayre MacInnes
  Duncan Sayre MacInnes
  Brigadier General Duncan Sayre MacInnes DSO CMG was a Canadian soldier and engineer who served in South Africa before, during and after the Second Boer War. Before a during World War I, MacInnes played a key role in the establishment and development of the Royal Flying Corps...
  
  
• Donald Macintyre
  Donald MacIntyre
  This page is about the Victoria Cross recipient. For others of similar name see Donald MacIntyreMajor General Donald Macintyre VC was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and...
  
  
• Colin John Mackenzie
  Colin John Mackenzie
  Major-General Sir Colin John Mackenzie, KCB was a British soldier and Chief of the General Staff, the head of the Canadian Army, from 1910 until 1913.-Background:...
  
  
• Jeremy Mackenzie
  Jeremy Mackenzie
  General Sir John Jeremy Mackenzie GCB, OBE, DL is a former British Army General who became Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe.-Military career:...
  
  
• Alexander Mackenzie-Fraser
  Alexander Mackenzie-Fraser
  Lieutenant General Alexander Mackenzie-Fraser was a British General. He was known as Mackenzie until he took additional name of Fraser in 1803.- Family and early life :...
  
  
• William Henry Mackinnon
  William Henry Mackinnon
  General Sir Henry Mackinnon GCB KCVO was a British Army General during World War I.-Military career:...
  
  
• Sir Fitzroy MacLean, 1st Baronet
• Donald Kenneth McLeod
  Donald Kenneth McLeod
  Sir Kenneth McLeod was an officer in the British Army who achieved a rank of Lieutenant General. He joined the army in 1903 and by 1904 he was with the British Indian Army.-Career:* 1908 North West Frontier, India...
  
  
• John Macleod
  John Macleod (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant General Sir John Angus Macleod GCH was Master Gunner, St James's Park, the most senior Ceremonial Post in the Royal Artillery after the Sovereign.-Military career:...
  
  
• Roderick McLeod
  Roderick McLeod
  Lieutenant General Sir Roderick William McLeod GBE KCB was a British Army General who achieved high office in the 1950s.-Military career:...
  
  
• Gordon Holmes MacMillan
  Gordon Holmes MacMillan
  General Sir Gordon Holmes Alexander MacMillan, Lord MacMillan of MacMillan of Knap, KCB, KCVO, CBE, DSO and MC with two bars was a British General who commanded several British Army divisions during World War II and who was decorated for bravery in World War I...
  
  
• William McMurdo
  William McMurdo
  Sir William Montagu Scott McMurdo KCB was a British army officer who rose to the rank of general. He saw active service in India, helped to run a military railway in the Crimean War and then managed various groups of volunteers working with the army...
  
  
• John Carstairs McNeill
  John Carstairs McNeill
  Major General Sir John Carstairs McNeill VC, GCVO, KCB, KCMG was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Early life:He was the son of Anne Elizabeth McNeill née...
  
  
• Herbert Taylor MacPherson
  Herbert Taylor MacPherson
  Major-General Sir Herbert Taylor MacPherson VC, GCB, KCSI was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:He was 30 years old, and a lieutenant in the 78th...
  
  
• William Macpherson
  William Macpherson
  Major General Sir William Grant Macpherson KCMG, CB was the colonel-commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps, and the author of its official history....
  
  
• Lachlan Macquarie
  Lachlan Macquarie
  Major-General Lachlan Macquarie CB , was a British military officer and colonial administrator. He served as the last autocratic Governor of New South Wales, Australia from 1810 to 1821 and had a leading role in the social, economic and architectural development of the colony...
  
  
• Nevil Macready
  Nevil Macready
  General Sir Cecil Frederick Nevil Macready, 1st Baronet, GCMG, KCB, PC , known as Sir Nevil Macready and affectionately as Make-Ready , was a British Army officer...
  
  
• Bryan Mahon
  Bryan Mahon
  General Sir Bryan Thomas Mahon KCB, KCVO, PC, DSO was a British Army general and Irish Free State Senator.-Military career:Mahon was born at Belleville, County Galway...
  
  
• Frederick Maitland
  Frederick Maitland
  General Frederick Maitland was the youngest son of the hon. Sir Alexander Maitland Baronet and Penelope, daughter of Martin Madan and Judith Madan the poet...
  
  
• Peregrine Maitland
  Peregrine Maitland
  Sir Peregrine Maitland, KCB, GCB was a British soldier and colonial administrator who played first-class cricket from 1798 to 1808....
  
  
• Thomas Maitland
• Vivian Majendie
  Vivian Majendie
  Major-General Vivian Henry Bruce Majendie CB DSO was an English cricketer and British Army General.-Military career:Majendie was commissioned into the Somerset Light Infantry in 1905...
  
  
• Wilfrid Malleson
  Wilfrid Malleson
  Sir Wilfrid Malleson was a Major-General in the British Army who led a mission to Turkestan during the Russian Civil War. Malleson joined the Royal Artillery in 1886. In 1904 he transferred to the Indian Army and accompanied Sir Louis William Daneon on his mission to Kabul, Afghanistan, 1904–1905...
  
  
• Christopher Maltby
• Lord Charles Manners (died 1761)
• Lord Charles Manners (1780–1855)
• Lord Robert Manners (major-general)
• Lord Robert Manners (British Army general)
• William Manning
  William Manning (colonial governor)
  Brigadier-General Sir William Henry Manning GCMG KBE CB was a British soldier and colonial administrator.Manning was educated at the University of Cambridge as a non-collegiate student and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and was commissioned a Lieutenant in the South Wales Borderers in 1886...
  
  
• Mark Mans
  Mark Mans
  Lieutenant-General Mark Francis Noel Mans CBE QCVS is the current Adjutant-General to the Forces of the United Kingdom.-Career:Educated at Berkhamsted School, Mark Mans was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1974. During the Gulf War he was Officer Commanding 37 Field Support Squadron. He was...
  
  
• Robert Mansergh
  Robert Mansergh
  General Sir Eric Carden Robert Mansergh GCB KBE MC was a British Army General during and after World War II.-Military career:...
  
  
• Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough
  Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough
  Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough KG, PC , known as The Earl of Sunderland between 1729 and 1733, was a British soldier and politician. He briefly served as Lord Privy Seal in 1755...
  
  
• John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
  John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
  John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, Prince of Mindelheim, KG, PC , was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns of five monarchs through the late 17th and early 18th centuries...
  
  
• John Charles Oakes Marriott
  John Charles Oakes Marriott
  Major-General Sir John Charles Oakes Marriott, KCVO, CB, DSO and Bar, MC was a British Army officer during World War I and World War II.-Military career:Marriott was commissioned into the Northamptonshire Regiment in 1914....
  
  
• William Marshall
• James Marshall-Cornwall
  James Marshall-Cornwall
  General Sir James Handyside Marshall-Cornwall KCB, CBE, DSO, MC was a British Army officer and linguist.-Early life:...
  
  
• Giffard LeQuesne Martel
  Giffard LeQuesne Martel
  General Sir Giffard Le Quesne Martel, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC , familiarly known as "Q Martel", was a British Army officer during World War I and World War II....
  
  
• Samuel Masham, 1st Baron Masham
  Samuel Masham, 1st Baron Masham
  Samuel Masham, 1st Baron Masham , was a courtier in the court of Queen Anne, and the husband of her favourite, Abigail Masham , Baroness Masham....
  
  
• Noel Mason-Macfarlane
  Noel Mason-Macfarlane
  Lieutenant General Sir Frank Noel Mason-Macfarlane, KCB, DSO, MC was a British soldier, administrator and politician who served as Governor of Gibraltar during World War II.-Military career:...
  
  
• Hugh Massy
  Hugh Massy
  Lieutenant General Hugh Royds Stokes Massy CB DSO MC was a British Army General during World War II.-Military career:...
  
  
• Torquhil Matheson
  Torquhil Matheson
  General Sir Torquhil George Matheson, 5th Baronet, KCB, CMG, was a senior British Army officer of the First World War who commanded three different divisions in some of the heaviest fighting of the conflict. He had previously served in the militia and with the Coldstream Guards in the Second Boer...
  
  
• Frederick Francis Maude
  Frederick Francis Maude
  General Sir Frederick Francis Maude VC GCB was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
  
  
• Frederick Stanley Maude
  Frederick Stanley Maude
  Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude KCB, CMG, DSO was a British commander, most famous for his efforts in Mesopotamia during World War I and for conquering Baghdad in 1917.-Family:...
  
  
• Frederick Barton Maurice
  Frederick Barton Maurice
  Major-General Sir Frederick Barton Maurice, 1st Baronet GCB GCMG GCVO DSO was a British general, military correspondent, writer and academic...
  
  
• John Frederick Maurice
  John Frederick Maurice
  Major-General Sir John Frederick Maurice was an English soldier, born in London. He studied at Addiscombe College and Woolwich Academy and entered the Royal Artillery in 1861...
  
  
• Ivor Maxse
  Ivor Maxse
  General Sir Ivor Maxse, KCB, CVO, DSO, was a World War I general, best known for his innovative and effective training methods.-Early life:Maxse was educated at Mr...
  
  
• Francis Aylmer Maxwell
  Francis Aylmer Maxwell
  Brigadier General Francis Aylmer Maxwell VC, CSI, DSO & Bar was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.Maxwell was 28 years old, and a lieutenant in the Indian...
  
  
• John Maxwell
  John Maxwell (British Army officer)
  General Sir John Grenfell Maxwell GCB, KCMG, CVO, DSO, PC was a British Army officer and colonial governor. He served in the Mahdist War in the Sudan, the Boer War, and in the First World War, but he is best known for his role in the suppression of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland and subsequent...
  
  
• Reginald May
  Reginald May
  General Sir Reginald Seaburne May KCB KBE CMG DSO was Quartermaster-General to the Forces.-Military career:Educated at Haileybury, May was commissioned into the Royal Fusiliers in 1898....
  
  
• Simon Mayall
  Simon Mayall
  Lieutenant General Simon Vincent Mayall, CB is currently Middle East Adviser at the Ministry of Defence.-Military career:Educated at Balliol College, Oxford, Mayall was commissioned into the 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars in 1979. From 1985 to 1988 he was seconded to the Sultan of Oman's Land...
  
  
• Mosley Mayne
  Mosley Mayne
  General Sir Ashton Gerard Oswald Mosley Mayne GCB, CBE, DSO was a British Indian Army officer in both World War I and World War II.-Early career:...
  
  
• Richard John Meade
  Richard John Meade
  General Sir Richard John Meade, KCSI, CIE was born at Innishannon County Cork to Captain John Meade of the Royal Navy and Elizabeth Quin....
  
  
• Reginald Brabazon, 13th Earl of Meath
• William Medows
  William Medows
  General Sir William Medows KB was an Englishman and a general in the British Army.-Military career:Sir William was the son of Philip Medows, deputy ranger of Richmond Park, and Lady Frances Pierrepont, daughter of the Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull.He entered the British Army as an ensign in the 50th...
  
  
• William Hope Meiklejohn
  William Hope Meiklejohn
  Brigadier-General William Hope Meiklejohn CB CMG was a British military commander who, as a colonel, was in charge of the British garrison during the siege of Malakand in northern Pakistan from 26 July to 2 August 1897 and who later led a relief force to the besieged fort of Chakdara along with Sir...
  
  
• Charles John Melliss
  Charles John Melliss
  Major General Sir Charles John Melliss VC, CB, CMG was a British military officer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Melliss was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth...
  
  
• Henry Dundas, 3rd Viscount Melville
  Henry Dundas, 3rd Viscount Melville
  Henry Dundas, 3rd Viscount Melville GCB was a British military leader.- Military career :The eldest son of Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Melville, he was captain of the 83rd Regiment from 1824, and was active in suppressing the Canadian rebellion in 1837...
  
  
• Robert Melville
  Robert Melville
  Robert Melvill was a Scottish soldier, botanist and inventor. He served as a general in the British Army and was a prominent antiquary....
  
  
• Robert Menzies
  Robert Menzies (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant-General Robert Menzies CB OBE is a retired British Army medical officer and Surgeon General of the British Armed Forces between 2000 and 2002.-References:...
  
  
• Stewart Menzies
  Stewart Menzies
  Major General Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, KCB, KCMG, DSO, MC was Chief of MI6 , British Secret Intelligence Service, during and after World War II.-Early life, family:...
  
  
• Cavalié Mercer
• William Merewether
  William Merewether
  Major General Sir William Lockyer Merewether KCSI, CB was a British General who served in a number of places including India and Abyssinia.-Abyssinia 1867–1868:...
  
  
• Frank Messervy
  Frank Messervy
  General Sir Frank Walter Messervy, KCSI, KBE, CB, DSO & Bar, , was a British Indian Army officer in both the First and Second World Wars...
  
  
• Godwin Michelmore
  Godwin Michelmore
  Major-General Sir William Godwin Michelmore KBE, CB, DSO, MC, TD, JP, DL was a senior British army officer who served in both world wars and was later ADC to King George VI and Lord Mayor of Exeter.-Early life and military career:...
  
  
• George Middlemore
  George Middlemore
  General George Middlemore was a British Army officer. He was the first governor of Saint Helena from 1836 to 1842 after its handover from the British East India Company to the Crown and oversaw the repatriation of Napoleon's remains from there in 1840...
  
  
• Frederick Dobson Middleton
  Frederick Dobson Middleton
  General Sir Frederick Dobson Middleton KCMG, CB was a British general noted for his service throughout the Empire and particularly in the North-West Rebellion.-Military career:...
  
  
• Eric Grant Miles
  Eric Grant Miles
  Major-General Eric Grant Miles CB DSO MC served as an officer with the British Army during World War II.-Military career:Miles was commissioned into the King's Own Scottish Borderers in 1911...
  
  
• Herbert Miles
  Herbert Miles
  Lieutenant General Sir Herbert Scott Gould Miles GCB GCMG GBE CVO was Quartermaster-General to the Forces.-Military career:Miles was commissioned into the 101st Regiment of Foot in 1869....
  
  
• George Milne, 1st Baron Milne
  George Milne, 1st Baron Milne
  Field Marshal George Francis Milne, 1st Baron Milne, GCB, GCMG, DSO , was a British military commander who served as Chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1926 to 1933.-Army career:...
  
  
• George Milner
  George Milner
  General George Milner was a general officer of the British Army during the late eighteenth century.In 1776, he was appointed an Ensign in the 3rd Foot Guards, purchasing his lieutenantcy in 1778 and captaincy in 1792...
  
  
• John Mogg
  John Mogg (British Army officer)
  General Sir Herbert John Mogg GCB CBE DSO & Bar was a senior British Army officer who also held the NATO position of Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe .He has been described as a popular and affable man...
  
  
• George Molesworth
  George Molesworth
  Lieutenant-General George Noble Molesworth, CSI, CBE was an officer commissioned into the British Army serving in India and saw active service in the Third Anglo-Afghan War. He later transferred to the British Indian Army and rose to oversee intelligence and to be Deputy Chief of General Staff of...
  
  
• Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
  Gilbert Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley
  Gilbert Walter Riversdale Monckton, 2nd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley CB, OBE, MC served in the British Army from 1939 to 1967, retiring with the rank of Major-General...
  
  
• Robert Monckton
  Robert Monckton
  Robert Monckton was an officer of the British army and a colonial administrator in British North America. He had a distinguished military and political career, being second in command to General Wolfe at the battle of Quebec and subsequently being the Governor of New York State...
  
  
• Ernest Money
  Ernest Money
  Brigadier-General Ernest Douglas Money CIE CVO DSO was a British Indian Army officer.The son of Major-General Robert Money, he was born in Harbledown, Kent, and educated at Sherborne School. He was commissioned into the Militia and then transferred to the Lincolnshire Regiment in 1888...
  
  
• Sir Charles Monro, 1st Baronet
  Sir Charles Monro, 1st Baronet
  General Sir Charles Carmichael Monro, 1st Baronet of Bearcrofts, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, was a British Army General during World War I and Governor of Gibraltar from 1923 to 1929.-Military career:...
  
  
• Edward James Montagu-Stuart-Wortley
  Edward James Montagu-Stuart-Wortley
  Major General Edward James Montagu-Stuart-Wortley CB, CMG, DSO, MVO was a British general during the First World War who is best remembered as the first British general to be dismissed during the Battle of the Somme...
  
  
• Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd
• Arthur Thomas Moore
  Arthur Thomas Moore
  Arthur Thomas Moore VC CB was born in Carlingford, County Louth and educated at the East India Company College...
  
  
• James Newton Rodney Moore
  James Newton Rodney Moore
  General Sir Rodney Moore, GCVO KCB CBE DSO was a senior British Army officer.-Military career:Educated at Harrow School and the Royal Military College Sandhurst, Moore was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards in 1925. From 1942 to 1944 he was General Staff Officer 1 Guards Armoured Division...
  
  
• John Moore
• Harry Mordaunt
  Harry Mordaunt
  Lieutenant-General Harry Mordaunt was an English soldier.Mordaunt was a younger son of John Mordaunt, 1st Viscount Mordaunt and Elizabeth, the daughter and sole heiress of Thomas Carey, the second son of Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth...
  
  
• John Mordaunt
  John Mordaunt (British Army officer)
  General Sir John Mordaunt, KB was a British soldier and Whig politician, the son of Lieutenant-General Harry Mordaunt and Margaret Spencer...
  
  
• Charles Morgan
  Charles Morgan (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant General Charles Morgan was Commander-in-Chief, India.-Military career:Brought up in Caernarfon, Morgan was for many years a senior officer of the Bengal establishment. He officiated as Commander-in-Chief, India from 1797 to 1798 at the time that Zaman Shah threatened to invade the...
  
  
• Frederick E. Morgan
  Frederick E. Morgan
  Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Edgeworth Morgan KCB was a British Army officer who fought in the First World War and the Second World War...
  
  
• J. H. Morgan
• William Duthie Morgan
  William Duthie Morgan
  General Sir William Duthie Morgan GCB DSO MC was a British Army General during World War II.-Military career:Morgan was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1913. He served in World War I winning the DSO at the Battle of Le Cateau in 1914 and later the MC and was mentioned in despatches four...
  
  
• Thomas Morland
  Thomas Morland
  General Sir Thomas Lethbridge Napier Morland KCMG, DSO was a British general during the First World War.-Biography:Born in Montreal, Canada East, Morland was the son of Thomas Morland and Helen Servante...
  
  
• Thomas Morony
  Thomas Morony
  General Sir Thomas Lovett Morony KCB OBE was a British Army General who reached high office in the 1980s.-Military career:...
  
  
• Edwin Morris
  Edwin Morris (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant General Sir Edwin Logie Morris KCB OBE MC was a British Army General during World War II.-Military career:Edwin Morris was commissioned into the Royal Engineers: he was an Instructor at the Staff College, Camberley between 1926 and 1930: he went on to become a General Staff Officer at...
  
  
• Staats Long Morris
  Staats Long Morris
  Staats Long Morris was an American colonist who served as a major-general in the British army during the American Revolution...
  
  
• George Morrison
  George Morrison (British Army officer)
  General George Morrison was Quartermaster-General to the Forces.-Military career:Morrison joined the British Army as a gunner in 1722...
  
  
• Joseph Wanton Morrison
  Joseph Wanton Morrison
  Joseph Wanton Morrison was a British soldier, best known for commanding the British troops at the Battle of Crysler's Farm during the War of 1812.-Early career:...
  
  
• David Mostyn
  David Mostyn
  General Sir Joseph David Frederick Mostyn KCB CBE is a former Adjutant-General to the Forces.-Military career:...
  
  
• John Mostyn
  John Mostyn (governor)
  General John Mostyn was a British soldier and colonial administrator. He was a younger son of Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet.Mostyn served as Governor of Minorca for a ten year period between 1768 and 1778...
  
  
• J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone
  J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone
  John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone CB, CMG, DSO, PC, TD was a British soldier and politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1900 to 1904 and a Liberal MP from 1904 to 1922 and from 1923 to 1924...
  
  
• Berkeley Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan
  Berkeley Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan
  Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan, KCB, KCMG, , known as Sir Berkeley Moynihan 1st Baronet, from 1922 to 1929, was a noted British abdominal surgeon....
  
  
• Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave
  Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave
  Henry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave GCB, PC , styled The Honourable Henry Phipps until 1792 and known as The Lord Mulgrave from 1792 to 1812, was a British soldier and politician...
  
  
• Hector Munro, 8th of Novar
• George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster
  George FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster
  George Augustus Frederick FitzClarence, 1st Earl of Munster PC , was the eldest natural son of William IV of the United Kingdom and his long-time mistress Dorothy Jordan....
  
  
• Sir John Murray, 8th Baronet
  Sir John Murray, 8th Baronet
  General Sir John Murray, 8th Baronet, GCH led a brigade under Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War. Later in the war, he commanded an independent force that operated on the east coast of Spain....
  
  
• Horatius Murray
  Horatius Murray
  General Sir Horatius Murray GCB KBE DSO was a British Army General during World War II.-Military career:Horatius Murray was commissioned into the Cameronians in 1923....
  
  
• Archibald Murray
  Archibald Murray
  General Sir Archibald James Murray, GCMG, KCB, CVO, DSO was a British Army officer during World War I, most famous for his commanding the Egyptian Expeditionary Force from 1916 to 1917.-Army career:...
  
  
• George Murray
• James Murray
• David Murray-Lyon
  David Murray-Lyon
  Major-General David Murrey Murray-Lyon, DSO & Bar, MC, was an officer in the Indian Army. His final appointment was as the commanding officer of Indian 11th Infantry Division in Malaya until sacked by General Percival...
  
  
• James Wolfe-Murray
• Alfred Musson
  Alfred Musson
  Major General Alfred Henry Musson, CB, CBE, was an English cricketer and British Army officer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, he played a first-class cricket match for the British Army cricket team against Cambridge University during the 1925 English cricket season...
  
  
• Geoffrey Musson
  Geoffrey Musson
  General Sir Geoffrey Randolph Dixon Musson GCB CBE DSO was a senior British Army officer who became Adjutant-General to the Forces.-Military career:...
  
  

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• Charles Edward Nairne
  Charles Edward Nairne
  General Sir Charles Edward Nairne KCB was Commander-in-Chief, India.-Military career:Educated at Addiscombe College, Nairne was commissioned into the Bengal Artillery in 1855. He took part in suppressing the Indian Mutiny in 1857...
  
  
• Charles James Napier
  Charles James Napier
  General Sir Charles James Napier, GCB , was a general of the British Empire and the British Army's Commander-in-Chief in India, notable for conquering the Sindh Province in what is now Pakistan.- His genealogy :...
  
  
• George Thomas Napier
  George Thomas Napier
  Lieutenant-General Sir George Thomas Napier KCB entered the British army in 1800, and served with distinction under Sir John Moore and the Duke Wellington in the Peninsula--and lost his right arm at the storming of Ciudad Rodrigo, where, as a Major in the 52nd Foot, he led the Light Division's...
  
  
• William Francis Patrick Napier
  William Francis Patrick Napier
  General Sir William Francis Patrick Napier KCB , Irish soldier in the British Army and military historian, third son of Colonel George Napier was born at Celbridge, near Dublin.-Military service:...
  
  
• Eric Paytherus Nares
• John Nation
  John Nation
  Brigadier General John James Henry Nation CVO, DSO was a British Army officer who became a Conservative Party politician....
  
  
• Philip Neame
  Philip Neame
  Lieutenant General Sir Philip Neame VC, KBE, CB, DSO, KStJ was a British Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces...
  
  
• Thomas Pelham-Clinton, 3rd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne
  Thomas Pelham-Clinton, 3rd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne
  Major-General Thomas Pelham-Clinton, 3rd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne , known as Lord Thomas Pelham-Clinton until 1779 and as Earl of Lincoln from 1779 to 1794, was a British soldier and politician....
  
  
• Edward Newdegate
  Edward Newdegate
  Sir Edward Newdigate Newdegate KCB was a member of the Newdigate family and a soldier. He was born at Astley, near Nuneaton, the second son of Francis Parker Newdigate and Barbara Maria Legge....
  
  
• Cameron Nicholson
  Cameron Nicholson
  General Sir Cameron Gordon Graham Nicholson GCB KBE DSO & Bar MC is a former Adjutant-General to the Forces.-Military career:Cameron Nicholson was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1915...
  
  
• Francis Nicholson
  Francis Nicholson
  Francis Nicholson was a British military officer and colonial administrator. His military service included time in Africa and Europe, after which he was sent as leader of the troops supporting Sir Edmund Andros in the Dominion of New England. There he distinguished himself, and was appointed...
  
  
• John Sanctuary Nicholson
  John Sanctuary Nicholson
  Brigadier-General John Sanctuary Nicholson, CB, CMG, CBE, DSO was a British soldier and politician. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1921 to 1924....
  
  
• Lothian Nicholson
  Lothian Nicholson
  Lieutenant-General Sir Lothian Nicholson KCB was Governor of Gibraltar.-History:Educated at Mr Malleson's School in Hove and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Nicholson was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Engineers in 1846. In 1855 he was sent to the Crimean War where he took part in...
  
  
• William Henry Snyder Nickerson
  William Henry Snyder Nickerson
  Major-General William Henry Snyder Nickerson VC CB CMG , was a Canadian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Victoria Cross:Nickerson was a 25 years old lieutenant in...
  
  
• William Nicolay
  William Nicolay
  Lieutenant General Sir William Nicolay KCH, CB was the third son of Frederick de Nicolay, Principal Page to Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, wife of King George III. He was born at St. James's Palace on the 14th April 1771 and was a member of the British branch of the Nicolay family.He...
  
  
• John Nixon
• Miles Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk
  Miles Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk
  Major-General Miles Francis Stapleton Fitzalan-Howard, 17th Duke of Norfolk, , was the eldest son of Bernard Fitzalan-Howard, 3rd Baron Howard of Glossop and his wife Mona Stapleton, 11th Baroness Beaumont....
  
  
• Willoughby Norrie, 1st Baron Norrie
• Edward Northey
• George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland
  George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland
  Lieutenant-General George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, KG, PC was the third and youngest illegitimate son of King Charles II and his mother Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine...
  
  
• Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland
  Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland
  Lieutenant-General Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland, FRS was an officer in the British army and later a British peer...
  
  
• Chapple Norton
  Chapple Norton
  General John Chapple Norton was a British Army officer who served in the American Revolutionary War and who later became a Member of Parliament for Guildford....
  
  
• Edward Felix Norton
  Edward Felix Norton
  Edward Felix Norton DSO MC was a British army officer and mountaineer.He was educated at Charterhouse School and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and then joined artillery units in India and served in World War I. He had been introduced to mountain climbing at the home in the Alps of his...
  
  
• Archibald Nye
  Archibald Nye
  Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Edward Nye, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, KCB, KBE, MC was a British Army officer who served in both World War I and World War II...
  
  

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• Richard O'Connor
  Richard O'Connor
  General Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor KT, GCB, DSO & Bar, MC, ADC was a British Army general who commanded the Western Desert Force in the early years of World War II...
  
  
• Luke O'Connor
  Luke O'Connor
  Major General Sir Luke O'Connor VC, KCB was a British soldier. He was the first soldier to receive the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy, and was one of the most decorated servicemen ever to have served in the British Army.He was...
  
  
• Kevin O'Donoghue
  Kevin O'Donoghue
  General Sir Kevin O'Donoghue KCB, CBE is a retired British Army officer and former Chief of Defence Materiel. He retired from the service in December 2010, being succeeded as Chief of Defence Materiel by Bernard Gray.-Career:...
  
  
• James Oglethorpe
  James Oglethorpe
  James Edward Oglethorpe was a British general, member of Parliament, philanthropist, and founder of the colony of Georgia...
  
  
• Charles O'Hara
  Charles O'Hara
  General Charles O'Hara was a British military officer who served in the Seven Years War, American War of Independence, and French Revolutionary War, and later served as Governor of Gibraltar...
  
  
• Louis Oldfield
  Louis Oldfield
  Major-General Sir Leopold Charles Louis Oldfield KBE CB CMG DSO was General Officer Commanding Malaya Command.-Military career:Educated at Clifton College, Oldfield was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1892...
  
  
• Laurence Oliphant
  Laurence Oliphant (British Army officer)
  General Sir Laurence James Oliphant KCB KCVO was a British Army General who reached high office in the early years of the twentieth century.-Military career:Oliphant was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards...
  
  
• William Olpherts
  William Olpherts
  General Sir William Olpherts VC GCB was born in Dartrey, County Armagh, and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.- Early life :Olpherts was born on 8 March...
  
  
• Michael O'Moore Creagh
  Michael O'Moore Creagh
  Major-General Sir Michael O'Moore Creagh KBE MC, was a British soldier who served in both the First and Second World Wars. He commanded the 7th Armoured Division, the Desert Rats, between 1939 and 1941.-Early life:...
  
  
• Denzil Onslow
• Richard Onslow
  Richard Onslow (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant-General Richard Onslow was a British army officer and politician.He was the second son of Foot Onslow and the younger brother of Arthur Onslow, Speaker of the House of Commons. On 9 December 1726, he married his brother's sister-in-law, Rose Bridges, daughter of John Bridges of Thames...
  
  
• Harry Ord
  Harry Ord
  Major-General Sir Harry St. George Ord GCMG, CB, RE, was born on 4 August 1819 in North Cray, Kent, England. He was the son of Henry Gough Ord and grandson of Craven Ord of Greenstead Hall, Essex, a prominent antiquarian.-Education and career:...
  
  
• James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde
  James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde
  James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde KG KT was an Irish statesman and soldier. He was the third of the Kilcash branch of the family to inherit the earldom of Ormonde...
  
  
• Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery
  Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery
  Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery KT PC FRS was an English nobleman, statesman and patron of the sciences....
  
  
• John Oswald
  John Oswald (British Army officer)
  General Sir John Oswald, GCB, GCMG was a prominent British Army officer during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars whose service was conducted in seven different theatres of war. Oswald was born in Fife and educated in France, which gave him both excellent command of the French language...
  
  
• Loftus William Otway
  Loftus William Otway
  General Sir Loftus William Otway, CB was an experienced and professional cavalry commander of British forces during the Peninsula War who saw extensive service under Sir John Moore in the Corunna Campaign and Wellington in the remainder of the campaign. He also worked training Portuguese troops and...
  
  
• David Lloyd Owen
  David Lloyd Owen
  Major-General David Lanyon Lloyd Owen CB, DSO, OBE, MC was a British soldier and writer. During World War II he commanded the Long Range Desert Group.-Early career:...
  
  

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• Douglas Packard
  Douglas Packard
  Lieutenant General Sir Charles Douglas Packard KBE CB DSO was a British Army General who achieved high office in the 1950s.-Military career:Douglas Packard was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1923....
  
  
• Jacko Page
• Max Page
  Max Page
  Major-General Sir Charles Max Page KBE CB DSO was a British surgeon. He was president of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland in 1946....
  
  
• Bernard Paget
  Bernard Paget
  General Sir Bernard Charles Tolver Paget GCB, DSO, MC was a British officer who served in both the First and Second World Wars.-Military career:...
  
  
• Arthur Paget
• Edward Paget
  Edward Paget
  General Sir Edward Paget GCB was a British Army officer.-Career:Born the fourth son of Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, Edward Paget became a cornet in the 1st Regiment of Life Guards in 1792...
  
  
• Lord George Paget
  Lord George Paget
  General Lord George Augustus Frederick Paget KCB , was a British soldier during the Crimean War.-Background:Paget was the youngest son of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey by his second wife Lady Charlotte, daughter of Charles Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan.-Military career:Paget served in the...
  
  
• William Hacket Pain
  William Hacket Pain
  Brigadier-General Sir George William Hacket Pain KBE CB was a British Army officer and Royal Irish Constabulary commissioner. He played a key part in setting up the Ulster Volunteers as a unionist militia during the Home Rule crisis of 1912, and was believed to have organised gun-running...
  
  
• Edward Pakenham
  Edward Pakenham
  Sir Edward Michael Pakenham GCB , styled The Honourable from his birth until 1813, was an Irish British Army Officer and Politician. He was the brother-in law of the Duke of Wellington, with whom he served in the Peninsular War...
  
  
• Ridley Pakenham-Walsh
  Ridley Pakenham-Walsh
  Major-General Ridley Pakenham Pakenham-Walsh CB MC was General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District.-Military career:Pakenham-Walsh was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1908. He became an Instructor at the Royal Military College, Duntroon in Australia in 1914.He served in World War...
  
  
• Arthur Power Palmer
  Arthur Power Palmer
  General Sir Arthur Power Palmer GCB GCIE was Commander-in-Chief, India.-Military career:Educated at Cheltenham College, Power Palmer was commissioned into the 5th Bengal Native Infantry in 1857...
  
  
• Anthony Palmer
• Henry Spencer Palmer
  Henry Spencer Palmer
  Major General Henry Spencer Palmer was a British army military engineer and surveyor, noted for his work in developing Yokohama harbor in the Empire of Japan as a foreign advisor to the Japanese government-Biography:...
  
  
• Michael Palmer
• Patrick Palmer
• William Maule, 1st Earl Panmure
• Thomas Heazle Parke
  Thomas Heazle Parke
  Surgeon-General Thomas Heazle Parke was an Irish doctor, explorer, soldier and naturalist.Parke was born in 1857 at Clogher House in Kilmore, County Roscommon, Ireland, and was brought up in Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim...
  
  
• William Parke
  William Parke
  General Sir William Parke was born on 17 May 1822 in London in England. He was the son of Charles Parke, a land owner, formerly H.B.M Commissioner to the kingdom of Mexico and Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset and Letitia Alcock, the sister of Thomas Alcock ....
  
  
• Nick Parker
• Robert Pascoe
  Robert Pascoe
  General Sir Robert Alan Pascoe KCB MBE is a former Adjutant-General to the Forces.-Army career:Educated at Tavistock Grammar School and at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, Pascoe was commissioned into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in 1952...
  
  
• Sir William Payne-Gallwey, 1st Baronet
  Sir William Payne-Gallwey, 1st Baronet
  General Sir William Payne-Gallwey, 1st Baronet was a British soldier and Governor of the Leeward Islands.He was the youngest son of Ralph Payne by his second spouse Margaret née Gallwey, of St. Kitts, West Indies. He had served as a Lieutenant General in India, and was at one point...
  
  
• Edward Pearce
• Thomas Pearce
• Charles Pearson
  Charles Pearson (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Knight Pearson KCMG CB was a military commander in the British Army during the Anglo-Zulu War . Pearson was born in Somerset to Commander Charles Pearson of the Royal Navy...
  
  
• Thomas Pearson
  Thomas Pearson
  Thomas Pearson was a British soldier, who took part in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, and in the War of 1812 against the United States of America....
  
  
• Thomas Pearson (British Army officer)
  Thomas Pearson (British Army officer)
  General Sir Thomas Pearson KCB CBE DSO was Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces Northern Europe.-Military career:Educated at Charterhouse School, Pearson was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in 1934....
  
  
• Jonathan Peel
  Jonathan Peel
  Jonathan Peel was a British soldier, Conservative politician and racehorse owner.-Background and education:...
  
  
• David Peel Yates
  David Peel Yates
  Lieutenant General Sir David Peel Yates KCB CVO DSO OBE was a British Army General who reached high office during the 1960s.-Military career:David Peel Yates was commissioned into the South Wales Borderers in 1931...
  
  
• Lewis Pelly
  Lewis Pelly
  Sir Lewis Pelly, KCSI, , was Conservative Member of Parliament for Hackney North from 1885 to 1892 and an East India Company officer.-Early years:...
  
  
• George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke
  George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke
  General George Augustus Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke and 8th Earl of Montgomery, KG, PC was a British peer, army officer and politician.-Early life:...
  
  
• Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke
  Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke
  Lt.-Gen. Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke, 6th Earl of Montgomery PC FRS was the heir and eldest son of Thomas Herbert and his first wife Margaret...
  
  
• Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke
  Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke
  Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke, 7th Earl of Montgomery was the son of the ninth earl of Pembroke, and was named after his father.-Biography:...
  
  
• John Lysaght Pennefather
  John Lysaght Pennefather
  General Sir John Lysaght Pennefather GCB was a British soldier who won two very remarkable victories. Firstly, at Meanee, India, where it was said that 500 Irishmen defeated 35,000 Indians...
  
  
• Brian Pennicott
  Brian Pennicott
  Major-General Sir Brian Thomas Pennicott, KCVO, a senior British Army officer. He was Defence Services Secretary 1991-1994, and additionally Assistant Chief of Defence Staff 1992-94....
  
  
• William Pepperrell
  William Pepperrell
  Sir William Pepperrell, 1st Baronet was a merchant and soldier in Colonial Massachusetts. He is widely remembered for organizing, financing, and leading the 1745 expedition that captured the French garrison at Fortress Louisbourg during King George's War...
  
  
• Arthur Percival
• Lord Henry Percy
  Lord Henry Percy
  Lieutenant-General Lord Henry Hugh Manvers Percy VC KCB was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Background:Lord Henry, fourth child and third son of George...
  
  
• George Pereira
  George Pereira
  Brigadier-General George Edward Pereira, CB, CMG, DSO was a British explorer in Central Asia, Tibet and Western China; a soldier, writer and diplomatist.-Early life and family:...
  
  
• Peter Grant Peterkin
  Peter Grant Peterkin
  Major-General Anthony Peter Grant Peterkin CB OBE was the British House of Commons' Serjeant at Arms between 2004 and 2007.-Military career:...
  
  
• William Peyton
  William Peyton
  General Sir William Eliot Peyton KCB KCVO DSO was a British soldier, a general of the First World War who fought in several other wars.He was Delhi Herald of Arms Extraordinary at the time of the Delhi Durbar of 1911....
  
  
• Arthur Purves Phayre
  Arthur Purves Phayre
  Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Purves Phayre, GCMG, KCSI, CB was a career British Indian Army officer who was the first Commissioner of British Burma, 1862–1867, Governor of Mauritius, 1874–1878, and author....
  
  
• Richard Philipps
  Richard Philipps
  General Richard Philipps was said to have been in the employ of William III as a young man and for his service gained the rank of Captain in the British army. He served at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 and made the rank of Lt. Col. in 1712.In 1717 he was appointed Governor of Nova Scotia by...
  
  
• William Phillips
• Edmund Phipps-Hornby
• Thomas Picton
  Thomas Picton
  Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Picton GCB was a Welsh British Army officer who fought in a number of campaigns for Britain, and rose to the rank of lieutenant general...
  
  
• Sir Robert Pigot, 2nd Baronet
• Anthony Pigott
  Anthony Pigott
  Lieutenant-General Sir Anthony David Pigott KCB, CBE is a former British Army officer. He presently serves as Independent Member of Steering Board at the Intellectual Property Office.- Biography :...
  
  
• Hew Pike
  Hew Pike
  Lieutenant-General Sir Hew William Royston Pike KCB, DSO, MBE is a retired British Army officer known for his service in the Falklands War and for his command in Northern Ireland.-Education and early career:...
  
  
• Frederick Alfred Pile
  Frederick Alfred Pile
  General Sir Frederick Alfred Pile, 2nd Baronet GCB DSO MC was a British Army officer who served in both World Wars...
  
  
• Duncan Pitcher
  Duncan Pitcher
  Air Commodore Duncan le Geyt Pitcher CMG, CBE, DSO, RAF was an infantry and cavalry officer in the British Indian Army...
  
  
• George Dean Pitt
  George Dean Pitt
  Major-General George Dean Pitt was Lieutenant-Governor of the former New Zealand Province of New Ulster from 14 February 1848 to his death on 8 January 1851...
  
  
• William Augustus Pitt
  William Augustus Pitt
  General Sir William Augustus Pitt KB, PC was a long-serving if undistinguished senior officer of the British Army whose sixty years of service covered several major wars and numerous postings as garrison or regiment commander. He served as MP between 1754 and 1761...
  
  
• Augustus Pitt Rivers
  Augustus Pitt Rivers
  Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers was an English army officer, ethnologist, and archaeologist. He was noted for his innovations in archaeological methods, and in the museum display of archaeological and ethnological collections.-Life and career:Born Augustus Henry Lane-Fox at...
  
  
• William Platt
  William Platt
  General Sir William Platt GBE, KCB, DSO was an officer in the British Army, the Australian Army, and the New Zealand Army during World War I and World War II.-Early years:...
  
  
• Ian Stanley Ord Playfair
  Ian Stanley Ord Playfair
  Ian Stanley Ord Playfair, CB, DSO, MC and bar, , was a soldier who rose to the rank of Major General in the British Army.Playfair was educated at Cheltenham College and joined the Royal Engineers in 1913...
  
  
• Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer
  Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer
  Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE was a British colonial official and soldier born in Torquay who commanded the British Second Army in World War I and later served as High Commissioner of the British Mandate for Palestine.-Military...
  
  
• Nigel Poett
  Nigel Poett
  General Sir Joseph Howard Nigel Poett KCB, DSO was a British Army officer who commanded the 5th Parachute Brigade, 6th Airborne Division, during the Second World War.-Early life:...
  
  
• George Pollock
  George Pollock
  Field Marshal Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCSI was a British soldier.-Military career:Educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Pollock was commissioned into the Bengal Artillery in 1803....
  
  
• Robert Pollock
  Robert Pollock (British Army officer)
  Major-General Robert Valentine Pollock CBE DSO was General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District.-Military career:Pollock was commissioned into the 15th Hussars in 1903...
  
  
• Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby
  Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby
  Major General The Honourable Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby, GCMG, KCB, KCH , styled The Honourable from 1806 to 1837, was a British military officer, the second son of the 3rd Earl of Bessborough and Henrietta Spencer....
  
  
• William Ponsonby
• David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore
  David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore
  General David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore KT PC was a Scottish general and Governor of Gibraltar-Military career:...
  
  
• Henry Watson Powell
  Henry Watson Powell
  General Henry Watson Powell was a British officer during the Seven Years' War and American Revolutionary War.Powell was born in England in 1733. He commissioned as a Lieutenant on 10 March 1753, with the 46th Regiment of Foot. He was promoted to Captain on 2 September 1756 and given command of...
  
  
• Manley Power
  Manley Power
  Lieutenant General Sir Manley Power, KCB, ComTE was a British military leader who fought in a number of campaigns for Britain and rose to the rank of Lieutenant General. He is chiefly remembered for leading a brigade of Portuguese troops under The Duke of Wellington in the Iberian Peninsular War...
  
  
• Charles Armand Powlett
  Charles Armand Powlett
  Major General Sir Charles Armand Powlett, KB was a British soldier. He was the younger son of Lord William Powlett, brother of the second Duke of Bolton, by his wife Louisa, daughter of Armand Nompar de Caumont, Marquis de Montpouillon, and granddaughter of Henri Nompar de Caumont, 3rd Duc de La...
  
  
• Henry Royds Pownall
  Henry Royds Pownall
  Lieutenant General Sir Henry Royds Pownall KCB, KBE, DSO was a British general, who held several important command and Staff appointments during World War II. In particular, he was Chief of Staff to the British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium until the fall of France in May 1940...
  
  
• Thomas Simson Pratt
  Thomas Simson Pratt
  Sir Thomas Simson Pratt was a British Army general. He served in the First Anglo-Chinese War , in India from 1843 to 1855 where he was deputy adjutant-general at Madras, and was Commander of the British Forces in Australia from 1856 to 1861...
  
  
• Harry Prendergast
  Harry Prendergast
  General Sir Harry North Dalrymple Prendergast VC GCB was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
  
  
• Sir Thomas Prendergast, 1st Baronet
• Richard Prescott
  Richard Prescott
  Richard Prescott was a British officer, born in England.He was appointed a major of the 33rd Regiment of Foot, on 20 December 1756, transferred to the 72nd Regiment of Foot on 9 May 1758, and on 14 December 1761, lieutenant-colonel of the 17th Regiment of Foot, before in May 1762, transferring to...
  
  
• Robert Prescott
  Robert Prescott
  General Robert Prescott was a British soldier and colonial administrator. He enlisted in the British Army in 1745 and served during the Seven Years' War...
  
  
• Augustine Prévost
  Augustine Prevost
  Major General Augustine Prévost was a Swiss-born British soldier who served in the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence.-Seven Years War:...
  
  
• George Prévost
  George Prevost
  Sir George Prévost, 1st Baronet was a British soldier and colonial administrator. Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, the eldest son of Swiss French Augustine Prévost, he joined the British Army as a youth and became a captain in 1784. Prévost served in the West Indies during the French Revolutionary...
  
  
• Llewelyn Alberic Emilius Price-Davies
• John Prideaux
• Hugh Anthony Prince
  Hugh Anthony Prince
  Major-General Hugh Anthony Prince, CBE, Chief, Military Planning Office, SEATO, Bangkok, late the 6th Gurkha Rifles and The King's Regiment , died at Arles, France, 6 November 2005. He was aged 94....
  
  
• Andrew Pringle
  Andrew Pringle
  Major General Andrew Robert Douglas Pringle, CB, CBE is a retired British Army officer and currently president of KBR's International Government and Defence business.-Military career:...
  
  
• Harry Pritchard
  Harry Pritchard
  Major-General Harry Lionel Pritchard CB CMG DSO was General Officer Commanding Malaya Command.-Military career:Educated at Charterhouse School, Pritchard was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1891...
  
  
• Dighton Probyn
• Henry Procter
• Lewis Pugh Evans
  Lewis Pugh Evans
  Brigadier General Lewis Pugh Evans VC, CB, CMG, DSO & Bar, DL was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Early years:Lewis Pugh Evans was born at Abermadd to Sir...
  
  
• Sir James Pulteney, 7th Baronet
• Harry Pulteney
  Harry Pulteney
  General Harry Pulteney was an English soldier and Member of Parliament.He was the younger son of Colonel William Pulteney, of Misterton in Leicestershire, and Mary Floyd...
  
  
• William Pulteney Pulteney
  William Pulteney Pulteney
  Lieutenant-General Sir William Pulteney Pulteney, GCVO, KCB, KCMG, DSO was a British general during the First World War.-Military career:...
  
  
• Harold Pyman
  Harold Pyman
  General Sir Harold English Pyman GBE KCB DSO was a British Army General who achieved high office in the 1960s. He was the eldest son of Harold English Pyman and Christian Jane Scott, and the great-grandson of George Pyman....
  
  

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• Percy Radcliffe
  Percy Radcliffe (British Army officer)
  General Sir Percy Pollexfen de Blaquiere Radcliffe KCB KCMG DSO was a British Army officer who reached high office in the 1930s.-Military career:...
  
  
• Robert Napier Raikes
  Robert Napier Raikes
  General Robert Napier Raikes in 1889 became General of the Remount responsible for the provision of horses throughout the Indian army.He was born 15 October 1813 in Drayton the son of Robert Napier Raikes the vicar of Gayton and rector of Hellesdon all in Norfolk, England; and the grandson of...
  
  
• Geoffrey Raikes
  Geoffrey Raikes
  Major-General Sir Geoffrey Taunton Raikes CB DSO was a British Army General who achieved high office in the 1930s.-Military career:Raikes was commissioned into the South Wales Borderers in 1903...
  
  
• Henry Ramsay
  Henry Ramsay (Indian Army officer)
  General Sir Henry Ramsay, KCSI, CB. was a general in the Indian Army, Commissioner of the Kumaon and Garwhal districts. He is regarded as one of the great soldier-administrators of British India....
  
  
• David Ramsbotham, Baron Ramsbotham
  David Ramsbotham, Baron Ramsbotham
  General David John Ramsbotham, Baron Ramsbotham GCB CBE is a retired British Army officer, who later served as Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons...
  
  
• William Havelock Ramsden
  William Havelock Ramsden
  Major-General William Havelock Ramsden CB, CBE, DSO, MC was a British Army commander during World War II.-Military career:...
  
  
• Hubert Rance
  Hubert Rance
  Major General Sir Hubert Elvin Rance GCMG GBE CB was the last British Governor of Burma between 1946 and 1948, while the country moved towards independence. Later he became Governor of Trinidad and Tobago.-Career to 1945:...
  
  
• John Brocklehurst, 1st Baron Ranksborough
  John Brocklehurst, 1st Baron Ranksborough
  Major-General John Fielden Brocklehurst, 1st Baron Ranksborough CB, CVO , was a British soldier, courtier and Liberal politician.-Background and education:...
  
  
• Anthony Raper
  Anthony Raper
  Major-General Anthony John Raper CB CBE is a former Quartermaster-General to the Forces.-Military career:Educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Tony Raper was commissioned into the Royal Corps of Signals in 1970...
  
  
• Hurdis Ravenshaw
  Hurdis Ravenshaw
  Major General Hurdis Secundus Lalande Ravenshaw CMG was a senior British Army officer during the First World War who served at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and saw action on the North-West Frontier of India, in South Africa during the Second Boer War and in France and Greece during the...
  
  
• Cecil Rawling
  Cecil Rawling
  Brigadier-General Cecil Godfrey Rawling, CMG, CIE, DSO, FRGS was a British soldier, explorer and author whose expeditions to Tibet and Dutch New Guinea brought acclaim from the Royal Geographic Society and awards from the Dutch and Indian governments...
  
  
• Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson
  Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson
  General Henry Seymour Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson, GCB, GCSI, GCVO, KCMG , known as Sir Henry Rawlinson, Bt between 1895 and 1919, was a British First World War general most famous for his roles in the Battle of the Somme of 1916 and the Battle of Amiens in 1918.-Military career:Rawlinson was...
  
  
• Geoffrey Rawson
  Geoffrey Rawson
  Major-General Geoffrey Grahame Rawson CB OBE MC was a senior British Army officer who served in both the First and Second World Wars and had a notable cricket career, playing first-class cricket for the Army in 1921....
  
  
• Anthony Read
  Anthony Read (British Army officer)
  General Sir John Antony Jervis Read GCB, CBE, DSO, MC was a senior British Army officer who became Quartermaster-General to the Forces.-Military career:...
  
  
• Raymond Northland Revell Reade
  Raymond Northland Revell Reade
  Major General Raymond Northland Revell Reade CB, CMG was a soldier and Commandant of the Royal Military College of Canada.-Family:He was the grandson of Thomas Knox, the second Earl of Ranfurly...
  
  
• Felix Ready
  Felix Ready
  General Sir Felix Fordati Ready GBE KCB CSI CMG DSO was Quartermaster-General to the Forces.-Military career:Educated at Wellington College, Ready was commissioned into the Royal Berkshire Regiment in 1891. He took part in the Nile Expedition and the Siege of Khartoum and also the Second Boer...
  
  
• John Ready
  John Ready
  Major General The Honourable John Ready was a British army officer, who served as Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island from 1824 to 1831 and also as Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man from 1832 to 1845.-Career:...
  
  
• Harold Redman
  Harold Redman
  Lieutenant General Sir Harold Redman, KCB, CBE was an officer in the British Indian Army during World War II and the post-war era.-Military career:...
  
  
• Harold Redman
  Harold Redman
  Lieutenant General Sir Harold Redman, KCB, CBE was an officer in the British Indian Army during World War II and the post-war era.-Military career:...
  
  
• Hamilton Lyster Reed
  Hamilton Lyster Reed
  Major General Hamilton Lyster Reed VC, CB, CMG, was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
  
  
• Thomas Wynford Rees
  Thomas Wynford Rees
  Thomas Wynford Rees CB, CIE, DSO & Bar, MC, DL was an officer in the British Indian Army during World War I, the interwar years, World War II, and post-war.-Early life and career:The son of the Reverend T. M...
  
  
• Denys Whitehorn Reid
  Denys Whitehorn Reid
  Denys Whitehorn Reid CB, CBE, DSO and Bar, MC and Bar was an officer in the British Army and the British Indian Army during World War I and World War II.-World War I and inter-war years:...
  
  
• John Reid
• William Reid
  William Reid (British Army officer)
  Sir William Reid was a British soldier, administrator and meteorologist.He was born at Kinglassie, Fife and was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich....
  
  
• William Edward Moyses Reilly
  William Edward Moyses Reilly
  Major General William Edward Moyses Reilly , born Scarragh, County Down, on 13 January 1827, was fourth son of James Miles Reilly of Cloon Eavin, Co. Down, by Emilia, second daughter of the Rev Hugh Montgomery of Grey Abbey...
  
  
• John Reith
• Francis Rodd, 2nd Baron Rennell
  Francis Rodd, 2nd Baron Rennell
  Major General Francis James Rennell Rodd, 2nd Baron Rennell KBE CB JP was the second but eldest surviving son of the diplomat James Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennell. During the First World War he served in the artillery and as an intelligence officer in France, Italy North Africa , Palestine and...
  
  
• George Alexander Renny
  George Alexander Renny
  Major General George Alexander Renny VC was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
  
  
• Phineas Riall
  Phineas Riall
  Sir Phineas Riall, KCH was a British army officer, who fought in the War of 1812. was born in Clonmel, Ireland into a wealthy Protestant landowning family, the third son of Phineas Riall of Heywood, Co. Tipperary, whose father had founded the Riall Bank of Clonmel, and Catherine Caldwell of Dublin...
  
  
• Spring R. Rice
  Spring R. Rice
  Major-General Sir Spring Robert Rice , KCMG, CB, was a British Army general who served on the staff of the British Expeditionary Force during the First World War....
  
  
• Sir Robert Rich, 5th Baronet
  Sir Robert Rich, 5th Baronet
  Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Rich, 5th Baronet was a British Army general and Governor of Londonderry and Culmore.He fought at the battle of Culloden as colonel of Barrel's regiment where he lost his left hand to a sword cut and nearly lost the right forearm to another, in addition to six cuts to...
  
  
• David Richards
• Charles Leslie Richardson
  Charles Leslie Richardson
  General Sir Charles Leslie Richardson GCB CBE DSO was a British Army General who reached high office in the 1950s.-Military career:...
  
  
• Robert Richardson
  Robert Richardson (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Francis Richardson KCB CVO CBE was a British Army officer. Among other posts, he commanded a battalion and a brigade during the Troubles before becoming General Officer Commanding in Northern Ireland....
  
  
• Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond
  Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond
  The 2nd Duke of Richmond has been described as early cricket's greatest patron. Although he had played cricket as a boy, his real involvement began after he succeeded to the dukedom...
  
  
• Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond
  Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond
  Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, 4th Duke of Lennox KG, PC was a British soldier and politician and Governor General of British North America.-Background:...
  
  
• Thomas Riddell-Webster
  Thomas Riddell-Webster
  General Sir Thomas Sheridan Riddell-Webster GCB DSO was Quartermaster-General to the Forces.-Military career:Educated at Harrow School Riddell-Webster was commissioned into the Cameronians in 1905....
  
  
• Andrew Ridgway
  Andrew Ridgway
  Lieutenant-General Sir Andrew Peter Ridgway KBE CB is a former Lieutenant Governor of Jersey. He was appointed to the role for a 5 year term on 14 June 2006 after a long military career.-Military career:...
  
  
• Jonathon Riley
• Alan MacDougall Ritchie
  Alan MacDougall Ritchie
  Alan MacDougall Ritchie was an officer in the British Army during World War II.Ritchie was a brigade commander of the 26th Brigade and the 21st Brigade in the King's African Rifles during the East African Campaign...
  
  
• Neil Ritchie
  Neil Ritchie
  General Sir Neil Methuen Ritchie GBE, KCB, DSO, MC, KStJ was a senior British army officer during the Second World War.-Military career:...
  
  
• Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers
  Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers
  Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers PC was the second son of Thomas, 3rd Earl; and after the death about 1680 of his elder brother Thomas, styled Viscount Colchester, he was designated by that title until he succeeded to the peerage....
  
  
• Frederick Robe
  Frederick Robe
  Major-General Frederick Holt Robe CB was the fourth Governor of South Australia, from 25 October 1845 to 2 August 1848....
  
  
• Ouvry Lindfield Roberts
  Ouvry Lindfield Roberts
  General Sir Ouvry Lindfield Roberts, GCB, KBE, DSO was an officer in the British Army and the British Indian Army during World War I and World War II.-Military career:...
  
  
• Frank Crowther Roberts
  Frank Crowther Roberts
  Major-General Frank Crowther Roberts VC DSO OBE MC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.Roberts was educated at St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate and the...
  
  
• George Philip Bradley Roberts
  George Philip Bradley Roberts
  Major-General George Philip Bradley Roberts CB, DSO, MC, , better known as "Pip", was a British commander of an armoured division during the Second World War.-Military career:...
  
  
• Ouvry Lindfield Roberts
  Ouvry Lindfield Roberts
  General Sir Ouvry Lindfield Roberts, GCB, KBE, DSO was an officer in the British Army and the British Indian Army during World War I and World War II.-Military career:...
  
  
• Abraham Roberts
  Abraham Roberts
  General Sir Abraham Roberts GCB was a British Army General who served nearly 50 years in India.Roberts had two sons, both who obtained the highest ranks in the British Army...
  
  
• Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
  Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
  Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, Bt, VC, KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, KStJ, PC was a distinguished Indian born British soldier who regarded himself as Anglo-Irish and one of the most successful British commanders of the 19th century.-Early life:Born at Cawnpore, India, on...
  
  
• Sebastian Roberts
  Sebastian Roberts
  Major-General Sir Sebastian John Lechmere Roberts KCVO OBE was the Senior Army Representative at the Royal College of Defence Studies.-Military career:...
  
  
• Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge
  Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge
  General Brian Hubert Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge, GCB, GBE, KCMG, KCVO, DSO, MC , known as Sir Brian Robertson, 2nd Baronet, from 1933 to 1961, was a British Army General....
  
  
• Ian Argyll Robertson
• William Robertson
• Frederick Philipse Robinson
  Frederick Philipse Robinson
  Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson, GCB was a Virginian soldier, born in the Highlands, near New York, in September, 1763, who fought for Britain during the American War of Independence....
  
  
• Robert Montresor Rogers
  Robert Montresor Rogers
  Major General Robert Montresor Rogers VC CB was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:He was 25 years old, and a lieutenant in the 44th Regiment of...
  
  
• Henry Montagu, 6th Baron Rokeby
  Henry Montagu, 6th Baron Rokeby
  General Henry Robinson-Montague, 6th Baron Rokeby GCB was a British soldier.-Military career:Born the son of the 4th Baron, Rokeby was commissioned into the 3rd Foot Guards in 1814. He fought at the Battle of Quatre Bras and the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815.He fought in the Crimean War as...
  
  
• Bill Rollo
  Bill Rollo
  Lieutenant General Sir William Raoul Rollo KCB CBE is a British Army officer.-Military career:Rollo was commissioned into the Blues and Royals as a Second Lieutenant , 4 September 1977. His commission was confirmed and he was promoted to Lieutenant on 4 September 1977. He was promoted to Captain...
  
  
• Stuart Peter Rolt
  Stuart Peter Rolt
  Brigadier-General Stuart Peter Rolt CB was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst.-Military career:Stuart Rolt was the son of Peter Rolt, a Conservative MP...
  
  
• Cecil Romer
  Cecil Romer
  General Sir Cecil Francis Romer GCB KBE CMG was a British Army general who reached high command during the 1920s.-Military career:...
  
  
• William FitzGerald-de Ros, 23rd Baron de Ros
  William FitzGerald-de Ros, 23rd Baron de Ros
  General William Lennox Lascelles FitzGerald-de Ros, 23rd Baron de Ros of Helmsley, PC, DL , was a British soldier and Conservative politician...
  
  
• Michael Rose
• Robert Ross
• James St Clair-Erskine, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn
  James St Clair-Erskine, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn
  General James St Clair-Erskine, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn GCB, PC , known as Sir James Erskine, Bt, between 1765 and 1789 and as Sir James St Clair-Erskine, Bt, between 1789 and 1805, was a Scottish soldier, politician, and Acting Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Scotland, on behalf of King George...
  
  
• Robert Cuninghame, 1st Baron Rossmore
  Robert Cuninghame, 1st Baron Rossmore
  General Robert Cuninghame, 1st Baron Rossmore PC was an Irish British Army officer and politician.-Military career:...
  
  
• Francis de Rottenburg
  Francis de Rottenburg
  Major-General Francis de Rottenburg, baron de Rottenburg was raised in what is now Gdańsk in Poland to a Swiss family and became a British military officer and colonial administrator. He spent almost a decade in the French army which came to an end with the French Revolution...
  
  
• William Rous
  William Rous (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant General The Honourable Sir William Edward Rous KCB OBE is a former Quartermaster-General to the Forces.-Military career:Born the son of the Earl of Stradbroke, Rous was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards in 1959....
  
  
• Eric Bertram Rowcroft
  Eric Bertram Rowcroft
  Major General Sir Eric Bertram Rowcroft CB, KBE, M.I.Mech.E., M.I.E.E.; 1891 – 12 March 1963), was a British Army officer. His military career started in 1908 as a TA Officer in the Royal Engineers and retired at the rank of Major General in 1946...
  
  
• Hugh Rowlands
  Hugh Rowlands
  General Sir Hugh Rowlands VC, KCB was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
  
  
• William Roy
  William Roy
  Major-General William Roy FRS was a Scottish military engineer, surveyor, and antiquarian. He was an innovator who applied new scientific discoveries and newly emerging technologies to the accurate geodetic mapping of Great Britain....
  
  
• Leslie Rundle
  Leslie Rundle
  General Sir Leslie Rundle GCB GCMG GCVO DSO was a British Army General during World War I.-Military career:...
  
  
• Lord Alexander Russell
  Lord Alexander Russell
  General Lord Alexander George Russell GCB was the son of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford and his second wife, the Duchess of Bedford, Georgina Gordon Russell, although it has been claimed that Lord Alexander Russell's father was actually the Victorian painter Sir Edwin Landseer, who conducted a...
  
  
• Baker Russell
  Baker Russell
  General Sir Baker Creed Russell GCB KCMG was an Australian-born British Army officer who served with distinction in the Indian Mutiny, Anglo-Ashanti War, Anglo-Zulu War and Egyptian War.-Early life:...
  
  
• Dudley Russell
  Dudley Russell
  Lieutenant-General Sir Dudley Russell KBE, CB, DSO, MC was an officer in the British and Indian Armies during World War I and World War II.-Early career:...
  
  
• Lord George Russell
  Lord George Russell
  Major-General Lord George William Russell was a British soldier, politician and diplomat.The second son of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford and brother of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Lord Russell, he sat as Member of Parliament for Bedford from 1812 until 1830.Russell married Elizabeth...
  
  
• David Rutherford-Jones
  David Rutherford-Jones
  Major-General David John Rutherford-Jones CB is a British Army officer and former Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst....
  
  

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• Edward Sabine
  Edward Sabine
  General Sir Edward Sabine KCB FRS was an Irish astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist and explorer.Two branches of Sabine's work in particular deserve very high credit: Determination of the length of the seconds pendulum, a simple pendulum whose time period on the surface of the Earth is two...
  
  
• Joseph Sabine
• Charles Sackville-West, 4th Baron Sackville
  Charles Sackville-West, 4th Baron Sackville
  Major-General Charles John Sackville-West, 4th Baron Sackville, KBE, CB, CMG was a British Army general and peer who served throughout the First World War and reached the rank of major general. In 1919, Sackville-West was British Military Representative on the Supreme War Council and from 1920 to...
  
  
• George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville
  George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville
  George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville PC , known as the Hon. George Sackville to 1720, as Lord George Sackville from 1720 to 1770, and as Lord George Germain from 1770 to 1782, was a British soldier and politician who was Secretary of State for America in Lord North's cabinet during the American...
  
  
• Lionel Sadleir-Jackson
  Lionel Sadleir-Jackson
  Brigadier General Lionel Warren de Vere Sadleir-Jackson CB, CMG, DSO & Bar, FRGS was an officer of the British Army who served in the Second Boer War and the First World War with distinction before taking command of the North Russian Relief Force which supervised the withdrawal of allied troops...
  
  
• Robert Henry Sale
  Robert Henry Sale
  Major General Sir Robert Henry Sale GCB was a British Army officer who commanded the garrison of Jalalabad during the First Afghan War and was killed in action during the First Anglo-Sikh War....
  
  
• Guy Salisbury-Jones
  Guy Salisbury-Jones
  Major-General Sir Guy Salisbury-Jones, GCVO, CMG, CBE, MC was His Majesty's and then Her Majesty's Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom from 1950 to 1961....
  
  
• Alexander Fraser, 17th Lord Saltoun
  Alexander Fraser, 17th Lord Saltoun
  Lieutenant-General Alexander George Fraser, 17th Lord Saltoun KT GCH, KCB, was a Scottish representative peer and a British Army general who fought in the Napoleonic Wars and the First Anglo-Chinese War....
  
  
• William Mansfield, 1st Baron Sandhurst
  William Mansfield, 1st Baron Sandhurst
  General William Rose Mansfield, 1st Baron Sandhurst, GCB, GCSI, DCL , was a British military commander who served as Commander-in-Chief of India from 1865 to 1870.-Military career:...
  
  
• Richard Hieram Sankey
  Richard Hieram Sankey
  Lieutenant General Sir Richard Hieram Sankey KCB was an officer in the Royal Engineers in the East India Company's army in British India, later transferring to the British Army after the Indian Mutiny and the assumption of Crown rule in India.See also The Sankey Tank in Bangalore which he...
  
  
• Euston Henry Sartorius
  Euston Henry Sartorius
  Major General Euston Henry Sartorius VC, CB was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces...
  
  
• Reginald William Sartorius
  Reginald William Sartorius
  Major General Reginald William Sartorius VC, CMG was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
  
  
• Reginald Arthur Savory
  Reginald Arthur Savory
  Lieutenant-General Sir Reginald Arthur Savory, KCIE, CB, DSO, MC was a British Indian Army officer during World War I and World War II....
  
  
• Aldred Lumley, 10th Earl of Scarbrough
  Aldred Lumley, 10th Earl of Scarbrough
  Major-General Aldred Frederick George Beresford Lumley, 10th Earl of Scarbrough, KG, GBE, KCB, GStJ was a British peer and soldier. His first name is sometimes rendered as Alfred, not Aldred....
  
  
• Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough
• James Yorke Scarlett
  James Yorke Scarlett
  General Sir James Yorke Scarlett, GCB was a British general and hero of the Crimean War.-Early life:The son of the 1st Baron Abinger, and educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, Scarlett entered the army as a cornet in 1818 and in 1830 became a major in the 5th Dragoon Guards...
  
  
• Edmond Schreiber
  Edmond Schreiber
  Lieutenant-General Sir Edmund Charles Acton Schreiber, KCB, DSO was a British Army officer who served in both the First and Second World Wars. In the second he commanded the 45th Infantry Division, V Corps and First Army....
  
  
• Henry Sclater
  Henry Sclater
  General Sir Henry Crichton Sclater GCB GBE was a British Army General during World War I.-Military career:Henry Sclater was commissioned the Royal Artillery in 1875....
  
  
• Henry Jenner Scobell
  Henry Jenner Scobell
  Major-General Sir Henry Jenner "Harry" Scobell KCVO CB was a British military leader who served as the last officer in command of Cape Colony before the formation of the Union of South Africa....
  
  
• Ronald Scobie
  Ronald Scobie
  Lieutenant-General Sir Ronald MacKenzie Scobie KBE, CB, MC was a British Army officer who commanded III Corps.-Military career:...
  
  
• Geoffrey Scoones
  Geoffrey Scoones
  General Sir Geoffrey Allen Percival Scoones KCB, KBE, CSI, DSO, MC was a general in the British Indian Army during the Second World War. His younger brother was Reginald "Cully" Scoones.-Military career:...
  
  
• James Bruce Scott
  James Bruce Scott
  Major-General James Bruce Scott, CB, DSO, MC was an officer in the British Indian Army best known for commanding the 1st Burma Division during the Japanese invasion of Burma in 1942. James Bruce Scott was born in 1892 Major-General James Bruce Scott, CB, DSO, MC (1892–1974) was an officer...
  
  
• Thomas Scott
• Logan Scott-Bowden
  Logan Scott-Bowden
  Major General Leonard Scott-Bowden CBE DSO MC and bar was a British army officer.-Early life:Scott-Bowden was born in Whitehaven, Cumbria on 21 February 1920. He was the son of Lt.Col. Jonathan Scott-Bowden, OBE, TD, and Mary Scott-Bowden ....
  
  
• William Scotter
  William Scotter
  General Sir William Norman Roy Scotter, KCB, OBE, MC was Commander-in-Chief, British Army of the Rhine, from September 1978 until October 1980.-Early years:...
  
  
• Robert Scott-Kerr
  Robert Scott-Kerr
  Brigadier General Robert Scott-Kerr DSO was a British Army officer.After being educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was commissioned in the 24th Regiment of Foot in 1879, transferring shortly thereafter to the Grenadier Guards...
  
  
• Francis Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth
  Francis Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth
  Francis Humberston Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth FRS was a British politician and general and Chief of the Highland Clan Mackenzie....
  
  
• Edward Seager
  Edward Seager
  Lieutenant-General Edward Seager CB was a British Army officer who served in the Crimean War and in the Indian Mutiny.Seager, was born on 11 June 1812, and, after serving in the ranks for nine years and one hundred and eighty-eight days from 1832, became a cornet of the 8th Light Dragoons on 17...
  
  
• Sir John Sebright, 6th Baronet
  Sir John Sebright, 6th Baronet
  Lt-Gen Sir John Saunders Sebright, 6th Baronet, , was the sixth Sebright baronet, and an officer in the British Army. Sir John was the son of Sir Thomas Sebright, 4th Baronet and Henrietta Dashwood....
  
  
• Horace Sewell
  Horace Sewell
  Brigadier-General Horace Somerville Sewell commanded the 1st Cavalry Brigade of the British Army from April 1918 until the end of World War I.His regimental nickname was "Sambo", apparently a reference to his Jamaican roots.-Biography:...
  
  
• Sir Francis Seymour, 1st Baronet
  Sir Francis Seymour, 1st Baronet
  General Sir Francis Seymour, 1st Baronet, GCB was a British Army officer and courtier....
  
  
• William Seymour
• John Sharp
  John Sharp (British Army officer)
  General Sir John Sharp KCB MC was a British Army General who achieved high office in the 1970s.-Military career:Sharp was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1938. He served in World War II with 5th Medium Regiment and then with 4th Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery...
  
  
• James Shaw Kennedy
• Frederick Shaw
  Frederick Shaw (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Charles Shaw KCB, PC was a British Army general who served in the Boer War and the First World War. He became Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and retired in 1920.-Military career:...
  
  
• Hugh Shaw
  Hugh Shaw
  Major General Hugh Shaw VC, CB He was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces...
  
  
• Roger Hale Sheaffe
  Roger Hale Sheaffe
  General Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe, 1st Baronet was an American-born General in the British Army in the first part of the 19th century.-Early career:...
  
  
• Philip James Shears
  Philip James Shears
  Major-General Philip James Shears CB was the only son of James Charles Shears, a mechanical engineer from Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, and Beatrice Jane Margaret Dumas, and was born on 6 April 1887 in Surbiton, Surrey...
  
  
• John Coape Sherbrooke
  John Coape Sherbrooke
  Sir John Coape Sherbrooke was a British soldier and colonial administrator. After serving in the British army in Nova Scotia, the Netherlands, India, the Mediterranean , and Spain, he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia in 1811.His active defense of the colony during the War of 1812...
  
  
• William Shirley
  William Shirley
  William Shirley was a British colonial administrator who served twice as Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and as Governor of the Bahamas in the 1760s...
  
  
• Richard Shirreff
  Richard Shirreff
  General Sir Alexander Richard David Shirreff KCB CBE is the Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe.-Early and personal life:Educated at Oundle School and Exeter College, Oxford, Richard Shirreff was commissioned into the 14th/20th King's Hussars in 1976.He is married to Sarah-Jane and has two...
  
  
• Stephen Shoosmith
  Stephen Shoosmith
  Major-General Stephen Shoosmith CB OBE DSO and Bar , was Principal Staff Officer to the Deputy Supreme Commander, Allied Powers in Europe, and, but for his early death, was expected to reach the highest positions in the service.-Early life:Shoosmith was educated at Blundell's School and the Royal...
  
  
• Henry Shrapnel
  Henry Shrapnel
  Henry Shrapnel was a British Army officer and inventor, most famously, of the "shrapnel shell".Henry Shrapnel was born in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England....
  
  
• John Shrimpton
  John Shrimpton
  -Military career:Shrimpton joined the Army becoming a Major in the 1st Foot Guards.In 1693, during the Nine Years' War, he was wounded at the Battle of Landen in Flanders...
  
  
• Cameron Shute
  Cameron Shute
  General Sir Cameron Deane Shute KCB KCMG was a British Army General during World War I.-Military career:Shute was commissioned into the Welsh Regiment in 1885. He transferred to the Rifle Brigade in 1895 and participated in the Nile Expedition and the Siege of Khartoum in 1898...
  
  
• Henry Taylor Siborne
  Henry Taylor Siborne
  Major-General Herbert Taylor Siborne was a British Army officer and military historian. He was the second son of the officer and historian William Siborne and in 1891 edited and published some of the letters his father had received in his research for his Battle of Waterloo model as Waterloo...
  
  
• John Graves Simcoe
  John Graves Simcoe
  John Graves Simcoe was a British army officer and the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1791–1796. Then frontier, this was modern-day southern Ontario and the watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior...
  
  
• Frank Keith Simmons
  Frank Keith Simmons
  Major General Frank Keith Simmons CBE, MVO, MC, was a British commander during World War II. Prior to the war, he had served as a Military Attache to Spain from 1928 until 1936, whereupon he served in British mandated Palestine as a lieutenant colonel, accompanied by his wife...
  
  
• John Alexander Sinclair
  John Alexander Sinclair
  Sir John Alexander Sinclair, KCMG, CB, OBE was Head of the Secret Intelligence Service from 1953 to 1956.-Career:Sinclair was commissioned into the Royal Army Service Corps. In 1938 he was appointed an Instructor at the Staff College, Camberley...
  
  
• Patrick Sinclair
  Patrick Sinclair
  Lieutenant-General Patrick Sinclair was a British Army officer and governor in North America. He is best remembered for overseeing the construction of Fort Mackinac on Mackinac Island in what was to become the U.S. state of Michigan.-Biography:Sinclair was born in Lybster, Scotland, and enlisted...
  
  
• Pratap Singh of Idar
  Pratap Singh of Idar
  Lieutenant-General Maharaja Sri Pratap Singh Sahib Bahadur of Idar, GCB, GCSI, GCVO, KIH was a career British Indian Army officer, Maharaja of the princely state of Idar and heir to Ahmednagar from 1902 to 1911, when he abdicated in favor of his adopted son.-Early Life 1845-1878:The prince...
  
  
• Andrew Skeen
  Andrew Skeen
  General Sir Andrew Skeen, KCB, KCIE, CMG served in the British Indian Army, rising to the position of Chief of the General Staff...
  
  
• Rudolf Carl von Slatin
  Rudolf Carl von Slatin
  Major-General Rudolf Anton Carl Freiherr von Slatin, Geh. Rat, GCVO, KCMG, CB was an Anglo-Austrian soldier and administrator in the Sudan.- Early life :...
  
  
• William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
  William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
  Field Marshal William Joseph "Bill"'Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, KG, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO, MC, KStJ was a British military commander and the 13th Governor-General of Australia....
  
  
• Robert Sloper
  Robert Sloper
  General Sir Robert Sloper KB was Commander-in-Chief, India.-Military career:Educated privately at Bishops Cannings in Wiltshire, Sloper was commissioned into the 10th Dragoons being promoted to Major in 1755. He was appointed Commanding Officer of 1st King's Dragoon Guards in 1759 and subsequently...
  
  
• Gerard Russell Smallwood
  Gerard Russell Smallwood
  Gerald Russell Smallwood was an officer in the British Army during World War II.In 1939, at the outbreak of war, Brigadier Smallwood commanded the Nigerian Brigade. By 1940, his brigade was named the 3rd Nigerian Brigade. In July 1940, under the terms of a war contingency plan, the 3rd Nigerian...
  
  
• Arthur Smith
  Arthur Smith (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Francis Smith KCB KBE DSO MC was a British Army General during World War II.-Military career:Smith was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards in 1910....
  
  
• Clement Leslie Smith
  Clement Leslie Smith
  Brigadier General Clement Leslie Smith VC MC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:Smith was 25 years old, and a lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion,...
  
  
• Francis Smith
• Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet
• Sir Lionel Smith, 1st Baronet
  Sir Lionel Smith, 1st Baronet
  General Sir Lionel Smith, 1st Baronet GCB GCH was a British diplomat, colonial administrator, and soldier.His mother was noted writer and feminist Charlotte Turner Smith....
  
  
• Rupert Smith
  Rupert Smith
  General Sir Rupert Smith KCB, DSO & Bar, OBE, QGM was an officer in the British Army until his retirement in 2002. He was educated at the Haileybury and Imperial Service College and later at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.- Military career :...
  
  
• Horace Smith-Dorrien
  Horace Smith-Dorrien
  General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien GCB, GCMG, DSO, ADC was a British soldier and commander of the British II Corps and Second Army of the BEF during World War I.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Edward Selby Smyth
  Edward Selby Smyth
  General Sir Edward Selby Smyth, was a British General. He served as first General Officer Commanding the Militia of Canada from 1874 to 1880.-Military career:...
  
  
• George Stracey Smyth
  George Stracey Smyth
  George Stracey Smyth was a British army officer and Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick.Born in England, he was appointed an ensign in the East Norfolk Regiment of Militia in 1779. He joined the army as an ensign in the 25th Foot in 1780...
  
  
• Henry Augustus Smyth
  Henry Augustus Smyth
  Sir Henry Augustus Smyth , FSA, FRGS, Governor of Malta, general and colonel commandant Royal Artillery, born at St James's Street, London, on 25 November 1825, was third son in the family of three sons and six daughters of Admiral William Henry Smyth by his wife Annarella, only daughter of Thomas...
  
  
• Brig. Sir John Smyth, 1st Baronet (acting Major Gen.)
• Leicester Smyth
  Leicester Smyth
  Lieutenant General Sir Leicester Smyth KCB KCMG was Governor of Gibraltar.-Military career:...
  
  
• Nevill Maskelyne Smyth
  Nevill Maskelyne Smyth
  Major General Sir Nevill Maskelyne Smyth, VC, KCB was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Early life:Born the son of Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth, a noted...
  
  
• Nevill Maskelyne Smyth
  Nevill Maskelyne Smyth
  Major General Sir Nevill Maskelyne Smyth, VC, KCB was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Early life:Born the son of Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth, a noted...
  
  
• Thomas D'Oyly Snow
  Thomas D'Oyly Snow
  Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas D’Oyly Snow KCB, KCMG was a British General in the First World War who commanded during some of the major battles of the Western Front. He had two nicknames, ‘Slush’ and ‘Snowball’, both plays on 'Snow'.-Education and early military career:Snow was born on 5 May 1858...
  
  
• Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset
  Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset
  General Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset was the son of Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset and his wife, Elizabeth...
  
  
• Edward Arthur Somerset
  Edward Arthur Somerset
  Lieutenant-General Edward Arthur Somerset CB was a British soldier and politician, the son of Lord Edward Somerset....
  
  
• Lord Edward Somerset
  Lord Edward Somerset
  General Lord Robert Edward Henry Somerset GCB was a British soldier.He was the third son of the 5th duke of Beaufort, and elder brother of Lord Raglan....
  
  
• Henry Somerset
  Henry Somerset (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant General Sir Henry Somerset KCB KH was a British Army officer, the eldest son of Lord Charles Somerset....
  
  
• Edward Spears
• William Spry
• James St Clair
  James St Clair
  General The Hon. James St Clair , was a Scottish soldier and Whig politician.-Background:St Clair was the second son of Henry St Clair, 10th Lord Sinclair and his wife Grizel Cockburn, daughter of Sir James Cockburn, 1st Baronet...
  
  
• Anthony St Leger
• John St. George
  John St. George
  General Sir John St. George GCB was a British Army officer.-Military career:Educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, John St. George was commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery in 1828...
  
  
• Lee Stack
  Lee Stack
  Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack was a British army officer and Governor-General of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. On 19 November 1924, he was shot and assassinated while driving through Cairo....
  
  
• James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope
  James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope
  James Stanhope, 1st Earl Stanhope PC was a British statesman and soldier who effectively served as Chief Minister between 1717 and 1721. He is probably best remembered for his service during War of the Spanish Succession...
  
  
• Edward Stanton
  Edward Stanton (diplomat)
  General Sir Edward Stanton, KCB, KCMG was a British officer and diplomat.Edward Stanton was the son of William H. Stanton, Esq., of Stroud, Gloucestershire. Born on 19 February 1827, he was educated at Woolwich Academy. He was commissioned as second lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 19 December...
  
  
• John Stanwix
  John Stanwix
  John Stanwix was a British soldier and politician.Stanwix entered the army in 1706, rose to a captain of the grenadiers in 1739, major of marines in 1741, and lieutenant-colonel in 1745, and was appointed equerry to Frederick, Prince of Wales, in 1749...
  
  
• William Staveley
  William Staveley
  Lieutenant-General William Staveley was Commander and Lieutenant Governor of Hong Kong.-Military career:...
  
  
• Charles William Dunbar Staveley
  Charles William Dunbar Staveley
  General Sir Charles William Dunbar Staveley GCB was a British Army officer.-Early life:He was born at Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, the son of Lt-General William Staveley and Sarah Mather, and educated at the Scottish military and naval academy, Edinburgh.-Career:He was commissioned as second...
  
  
• James Steele
  James Steele (British Army officer)
  General Sir James Stuart Steele GCB KBE DSO MC LLD was Adjutant-General to the Forces.-Military career:Born in Ballycarry, County Antrim and educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and at Queen's University, Belfast, James Steele was gazetted as a temporary second lieutenant in the...
  
  
• Thomas Montagu Steele
  Thomas Montagu Steele
  General Sir Thomas Montagu Steele GCB, PC was a British army officer.-Life:...
  
  
• Sir Donald Stewart, 1st Baronet
• Herbert Stewart
  Herbert Stewart
  Major-General Sir Herbert Stewart KCB ADC , British soldier, eldest son of the Rev. Edward Stewart, was born at Sparsholt, Hampshire. He was the grandson of Edward Richard Stewart and great-grandson of John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway...
  
  
• Ian MacAlister Stewart
  Ian MacAlister Stewart
  -Early life:Stewart was born in 1895, part of the Stewart family of Appin in Argyllshire. Stewart was born in Surore, Poone , India where his father, Lt.Col Alexander Kenneth Stewart, 12th of Achnacone, was a medical officer in the Poona Horse before his parents returned to Scotland. Stewart...
  
  
• Giles Stibbert
  Giles Stibbert
  Lieutenant General Giles Stibbert was Commander-in-Chief, India.-Military career:Stibber arrived in India in 1756 and took part in the Battle of Plassey in 1757. He then raised a battalion of native infantry at Bankipore in 1761 and commanded them at the Siege of Patna where he was wounded in 1763...
  
  
• John Stibbon
  John Stibbon
  General Sir John James Stibbon KCB OBE is a former Master-General of the Ordnance.-Military career:Educated at Portsmouth Southern Grammar School and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Stibbon was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1954.He was appointed Commanding Officer of 28th...
  
  
• William Stirling
  William Stirling (British Army officer)
  General Sir William Gurdon Stirling GCB CBE DSO was a British Army General who reached high office during the 1960s.-Military career:...
  
  
• Henry William Stisted
  Henry William Stisted
  Lieut.-General Sir Henry William Stisted, KCB , served as the first Lieutenant Governor of Ontario after Confederation, from 1867 to 1868....
  
  
• Hugh Stockwell
  Hugh Stockwell
  General Sir Hugh Charles Stockwell GCB, KBE, DSO & Bar was a British soldier, most remembered for commanding the Anglo-French ground forces during the Suez Crisis and his service as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO from 1960 to 1964.-Early life:Stockwell was born in Jersey, but spent...
  
  
• Hugh Stockwell
  Hugh Stockwell
  General Sir Hugh Charles Stockwell GCB, KBE, DSO & Bar was a British soldier, most remembered for commanding the Anglo-French ground forces during the Suez Crisis and his service as Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO from 1960 to 1964.-Early life:Stockwell was born in Jersey, but spent...
  
  
• Frederick Stopford
  Frederick Stopford
  Lieutenant General Sir Frederick William Stopford, KCB, KCMG, KCVO was a British Army officer.-Military career:...
  
  
• Lieutenant General Sir Montagu Stopford
• Henry Knight Storks
  Henry Knight Storks
  Sir Henry Knight Storks GCMG GCB was a British soldier and colonial governor.Educated at Charterhouse School, he entered the Army on 10 January 1828 as an ensign of the 61st Regiment of Foot. He was promoted lieutenant on 2 March 1832, exchanged to the 14th Regiment of Foot on 23 March 1832 and...
  
  
• Richard Strachey
  Richard Strachey
  Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Strachey, GCSI, FRS , British soldier and Indian administrator, third son of Edward Strachey and grandson of Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet was born on 24 July 1817, at Sutton Court, Stowey, Somerset...
  
  
• Charles Stuart
• James Stuart (d. 1793)
  James Stuart (d. 1793)
  Major-General James Stuart was a British Army officer who served in various colonial wars of the 18th century. His service of the British East India Company was marked by his conflict with Lord Pigot, the governor of Madras; Stuart's arrest of the latter in 1776 resulted in his suspension as...
  
  
• James Stuart (British Army officer)
• John Stuart, Count of Maida
  John Stuart, Count of Maida
  Sir John Stuart, Count of Maida GCB , was a British Lieutenant-General during the Napoleonic Wars.Stuart was born in Georgia, the son of Colonel John Stuart, superintendent of Indian affairs in the southern district, and a prominent loyalist in the War of Independence...
  
  
• Herbert Studd
  Herbert Studd
  Brigadier General Herbert William Studd was an English cricketer. Studd was a right-handed batsman.Studd was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He made his first-class debut for Middlesex against the touring Australians in 1890. During the match Studd took his only first-class...
  
  
• Herbert Studd
  Herbert Studd
  Brigadier General Herbert William Studd was an English cricketer. Studd was a right-handed batsman.Studd was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He made his first-class debut for Middlesex against the touring Australians in 1890. During the match Studd took his only first-class...
  
  
• John Howard, 15th Earl of Suffolk
  John Howard, 15th Earl of Suffolk
  General John Howard, 15th Earl of Suffolk, 8th Earl of Berkshire, FSA was a British soldier and nobleman.Howard was the third son of Capt. Philip Howard of the Royal Marines, grandson of Philip Howard. His father died in 1741...
  
  
• Cecil Sugden
  Cecil Sugden
  General Sir Cecil Sugden GBE KCB is a former Master-General of the Ordnance.-Military career:Educated at Brighton College, Sugden was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1923....
  
  
• John Swayne
  John Swayne
  Lieutenant General Sir John George des Reaux Swayne KCB CBE was General Officer Commanding South-East Command.-Military career:Swayne was commissioned into the Somerset Light Infantry in 1911...
  
  
• Brigadier David Henry Amyatt Swinburn
• Ernest Dunlop Swinton
  Ernest Dunlop Swinton
  Major General Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton, KBE, CB, DSO, RE was a military writer and British Army officer. Swinton is credited with influencing the development and adoption of the tank by the British during the First World War. He is also known for popularising the term "no-mans land".-Early life...
  
  
• Percy Sykes
  Percy Sykes
  Brigadier-General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes KCIE, CB, CMG was a soldier, diplomat and scholar, with a considerable literary output. He wrote historical, geographical, and biographical works, as well as describing his travels in Persia. Sykes was born in Brompton, Kent, England the only son of Rev...
  
  
• Frederick Sykes
  Frederick Sykes
  Air Vice-Marshal The Right Honourable Sir Frederick Hugh Sykes GCSI, GCIE, GBE, KCB, CMG was a military officer, British statesman and politician....
  
  
• Matthew Sykes
  Matthew Sykes
  Major General Matthew Sykes CVO is the Chief Executive of Elizabeth Finn Care, a national poverty relief charity. Prior to this appointment he served in the British Army for 35 years.-Elizabeth Finn Care:...
  
  

T

• Reginald Talbot
  Reginald Talbot
  Major-General Sir Reginald Arthur James Talbot, KCB was a British military officer, Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons, and Governor of Victoria in Australia.-Early life:...
  
  
• Nigel Tapp
  Nigel Tapp
  Major-General Sir Nigel Tapp KBE CB DSO was General Officer Commanding East Africa Command.-Military career:Tapp was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1924...
  
  
• Banastre Tarleton
  Banastre Tarleton
  General Sir Banastre Tarleton, 1st Baronet, GCB was a British soldier and politician.He is today probably best remembered for his military service during the American War of Independence. He became the focal point of a propaganda campaign claiming that he had fired upon surrendering Continental...
  
  
• Herbert Taylor
• Robert Taylor
  Robert Taylor (British Army officer)
  General Robert Taylor or Taylour styled The Honourable from birth, was an Irish soldier and politician.-Background:...
  
  
• Francis, Duke of Teck
  Francis, Duke of Teck
  Francis, Duke of Teck , was a member of the German nobility, and later of the British Royal Family. He was the father of Queen Mary, the wife of King George V...
  
  
• Christopher Teesdale
• Gerald Templer
  Gerald Templer
  Field Marshal Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer KG, GCB, GCMG, KBE was a British military commander. He is best known for his defeat of the guerrilla rebels in Malaya between 1952 and 1954...
  
  
• Andrew Rutherford, 1st Earl of Teviot
  Andrew Rutherford, 1st Earl of Teviot
  Andrew Rutherford, 1st Earl of Teviot was the son of William Rutherford of Quarrelholes, Roxburghshire. His education was received in Edinburgh, and he took up the career of soldier of fortune....
  
  
• George Thesiger
  George Thesiger
  Major-General George Handcock Thesiger, CB, CMG was a senior officer in the British Army during World War I who was killed in action during the battle of Loos by German shellfire...
  
  
• Gwilym Ivor Thomas
  Gwilym Ivor Thomas
  General Sir Ivor Thomas GCB KBE DSO MC was a British Army General during World War II.-Military career:Thomas was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1912 and served in World War I....
  
  
• Noel Thomas
  Noel Thomas
  General Sir Noel Thomas KCB DSO MC is a former Master-General of the Ordnance.-Military career:Thomas was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1936....
  
  
• Vivian Davenport Thomas
• Walter Babington Thomas
  Walter Babington Thomas
  Major-General Walter Babington 'Sandy' Thomas CB DSO MC and Bar is a former Commander of British Far East Land Forces.-Military career:...
  
  
• Thomas Perronet Thompson
  Thomas Perronet Thompson
  Thomas Perronet Thompson was a British Parliamentarian, a Governor of Sierra Leone and a radical reformer.Thompson was born in Kingston upon Hull in 1783. He was son of Thomas Thompson, a merchant of Hull and his wife, Philothea Perronet Briggs...
  
  
• James Noel Thomson
  James Noel Thomson
  James Noel Thomson was an officer in the British Indian Army during World War II.As part of Iraqforce , Major-General Thomson commanded the Indian 6th Infantry Division during Anglo-Soviet invasion of Persia.-Command history:...
  
  
• Mowbray Thomson
  Mowbray Thomson
  General Sir Mowbray Thomson was a British Army officer.He was born in 1832, and travelled to India at an early age. In 1853 he joined the 53rd Bengal Native Infantry – a regiment with Indian troops and white officers - as a subaltern, and in early 1857 moved with the regiment to Cawnpore...
  
  
• Noel Arbuthnot Thomson, GOC Infantry Brigade
• Andrew Thorne
  Andrew Thorne
  General Sir Augustus Francis Andrew Nicol Thorne KCB, CMG, DSO & Two Bars was a soldier in the British Army who served in the First and Second World Wars.-Military career:...
  
  
• William Thwaites
  William Thwaites
  General Sir William Thwaites KCB KCMG is a former Commander of the British Army of the Rhine.-Military career:Thwaites was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1887. He served in the Second Boer War as an Adjutant in 33rd Brigade Royal Field Artillery. He served in World War I in France and...
  
  
• Brigadier Christopher Tickell
• Brigadier Thomas William Tilbrook, Queen's Royal Irish Hussars
  Queen's Royal Irish Hussars
  The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars, abbreviated as QRIH, was a cavalry regiment of the British Army formed from the amalgamation of the 4th Queen's Own Hussars and the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars in Hohne, West Germany in 1958....
  
  
• Thomas Tollemache
  Thomas Tollemache
  Thomas Tollemache was an English soldier; the second son of Sir Lionel Tollemache of Helmingham, Suffolk and his wife, Elizabeth, 2nd Countess of Dysart....
  
  
• Henry Tombs
  Henry Tombs
  Major General Sir Henry Tombs VC KCB was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
  
  
• John Tombs
  John Tombs
  John Tombs was a military commander of the British East India Company and Major-General in the Indian Army.John Tombs was son of a banker, Joseph Tombs , of Abingdon. Graduating from Abingdon School, John Tombs entered service with the East India Company...
  
  
• Patrick Tonyn
  Patrick Tonyn
  Patrick Tonyn was a British General who served as the second colonial governor of East Florida from 1775 to 1783.Tonyn was from a military background. His father, Charles Tonyn, was a Colonel in the 6th Inniskillen Dragoons...
  
  
• Henry Torrens (British Army officer)
  Henry Torrens (British Army officer)
  Major-General Sir Henry Torrens KCB was an Adjutant-General to the Forces.-Early life:Torrens was born in Londenderry, Ireland in 1779. He lost both his parents at an early age, was educated at a military academy in Dublin....
  
  
• Henry Torrens
  Henry Torrens
  Lieutenant General Sir Henry D'Oyley Torrens KCB KCMG was a British army officer and colonial governor. He was born in Meerut, India, the son of Henry Whitelocke Torrens and Eliza Mary Roberts and died in London....
  
  
• George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington
  George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington
  Major General George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington , styled The Honourable from 1721 to 1747, was a British Army officer and peer. He was the son of Admiral George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington. He married Elizabeth Daniel, granddaughter of Sir Peter Daniel, on 21 August 1736...
  
  
• Philip Tower
  Philip Tower
  Major-General Philip Thomas Tower, CB, DSO, MBE was a British Army officer who held high command in the late in 1960s.-Military career:...
  
  
• Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend
  Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend
  Major General Sir Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend KCB, DSO was a British Indian Army officer who led the ultimately disastrous first British Expedition against Baghdad during World War I, and was later elected to Parliament....
  
  
• Frederick Traill-Burroughs
  Frederick Traill-Burroughs
  Lt-General Sir Frederick William Traill-Burroughs KCB CMG was a British army officer.-Early life:He was born in 1831, the eldest of five children, to General Frederick William Burroughs and Caroline de Peyron, at Fatehgarh on the banks of the Ganges not far from Cawnpore, India.-Military...
  
  
• Richard Trant
  Richard Trant
  General Sir Richard Brooking Trant, KCB, DL was an officer in the British Army. He was Land Deputy Commander in the Falklands War, and served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces from 1983 to 1986....
  
  
• Cyrus Trapaud
  Cyrus Trapaud
  General Cyrus Trapaud was a British Army officer.Trapaud was born in Dublin, the son of a Huguenot refugee family, and a relative of Marshall Turenne. He served in the Buffs , accompanying the regiment to the Netherlands in 1742...
  
  
• James Travers
  James Travers
  General James Travers VC CB was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
  
  
• Paul Travers
  Paul Travers
  Lieutenant General Sir Paul Athony Travers KCB is a former Quartermaster-General to the Forces.-Military career:Travers was commissioned into the South Lancashire Regiment in 1947....
  
  
• Charles Trelawny
  Charles Trelawny
  Major-General Charles Trelawny was a British Army officer of Cornish descent, the fourth son of Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 2nd Baronet....
  
  
• Henry Trelawny
  Henry Trelawny
  Brigadier-General Henry Trelawny was a British Army officer of Cornish descent, the seventh and youngest son of Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 2nd Baronet and Mary Seymour.He married Rebecca Hals , by whom he had children, including:...
  
  
• Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard
  Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard
  Marshal of the Royal Air Force Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard GCB OM GCVO DSO was a British officer who was instrumental in establishing the Royal Air Force...
  
  
• Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen
  Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen
  Major-General Ivor John Caradoc Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen CB, CMG, KStJ , known as Sir Ivor Herbert, Bt, between 1907 and 1917, was a British Liberal politician and British Army officer in the Grenadier Guards, who served as General Officer Commanding the Militia of Canada from 1890 to 1895...
  
  
• William Spottiswoode Trevor
  William Spottiswoode Trevor
  Major General William Spottiswoode Trevor VC was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
  
  
• Philip Trousdell
  Philip Trousdell
  Lieutenant General Sir Philip Charles Cornwallis Trousdell KBE CB is a former General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland.-Army career:Educated at Berkhamsted School, Philip Trousdell was commissioned into the Royal Irish Rangers in 1968. He was Commanding Officer of 1Bn Royal Irish Rangers from...
  
  
• Charles Tucker
  Charles Tucker (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant General Sir Charles Tucker GCB GCVO was a British Army General during the early years of the twentieth century.-Military career:Tucker was commissioned into the 22nd Foot in 1855....
  
  
• Henry Hugh Tudor
  Henry Hugh Tudor
  Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Hugh Tudor KCB, CMG was a British soldier who fought as a junior officer in the Second Boer War , and as a senior officer in the First World War , but is now remembered chiefly for his part in the Anglo-Irish War and the Palestine Police.-Early Career: India and South...
  
  
• Francis Tuker
  Francis Tuker
  Lieutenant General Sir Francis Ivan Simms Tuker KCIE CB DSO OBE was a British Indian Army officer.-Military career:...
  
  
• Harry Tuzo
  Harry Tuzo
  General Sir Harry Craufurd Tuzo, GCB, OBE, MC was a British Army officer who was Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe and GOC of the British Army in Northern Ireland during the early period of the Troubles.-Early life:...
  
  
• Philip Geoffrey Twining
  Philip Geoffrey Twining
  General Sir Philip Geoffrey Twining KCMG , Companion of the Order of the Bath, MVO was a Canadian born and educated soldier who served with the British Army in England, Canada, East Africa, India and China.-Education:He was born in 1862...
  
  
• James Arbuthnot Tyler, CRA
• Timothy Tyler
  Timothy Tyler
  Major-General Timothy Nicholas Tyler CB is a former Quartermaster-General to the Forces.-Military career:Tim Tyler was commissioned into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers in 1972....
  
  
• Julian Dallas Tyndale Tyndale-Biscoe, Commandant Remount Depot
• John Adam Tytler
  John Adam Tytler
  Brigadier General John Adam Tytler VC CB was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
  
  

U

• Major-General Peter Alfred Ullman (1897–1972)
• Percy Umfreville, Director of Military Prisons
• Brigadier William Ernest Underhill (1898–1968)
• Herbert Crofton Campbell Uniacke, GOCRA
• Brigadier Robert Babington Everard Upton (1896- )
• Major-General Robert Elliott Urquhart
  Roy Urquhart
  Major General Robert "Roy" Elliott Urquhart, CB, DSO was a British military officer. He became prominent for his role commanding the British 1st Airborne Division during Operation Market Garden.-Early career:...
  
   (1901–1988)
• Brigadier Thomas Clive Usher (1907–1982)
• Major-General John Edward Utterson-Kelso (1893–1972)

V

• Brigadier Croxton Sillery Vale (1896–1975)
• Brigadier Claude Max Vallentin (1896- )
• Major-General Albert Robert Valon (1885–1971)
• Brigadier John Ormsby Evelyn Vandeleur
  John Ormsby Evelyn Vandeleur
  Brigadier John Ormsby Evelyn 'JOE' Vandeleur DSO and Bar, ON was a British Army officer who served in the Second World War.-Early life:...
  
   (1903–1988)
• Brigadier Jacob William Van Reenan (1889- )
• Brigadier Arthur Bowen Van Straubenzee (1891–1967)
• Casimir Cartwright van Straubenzee
  Casimir Cartwright van Straubenzee
  Major-General Sir Casimir Cartwright van Straubenzee KBE CB CMG , was a British soldier of the Royal Engineers.-Education and career:...
  
    GOCRA
• Casimir Henry Claude Van Straubenzee  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Berkeley Vaughan  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Edward Vaughan  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Henry Osman Vaughan  CHA
• John Vaughan
  John Vaughan (British army officer)
  Lieutenant-General Sir John Vaughan KB , styled The Honourable from 1741, was a British soldier and a Member of Parliament in both the British and Irish Parliaments.-Background and early career:...
  
    GOC Cavalry Division & Insp QMG Services
• Louis Ridley Vaughan  MGGS
• Robert Edward Vaughan  DA&QMG
• Brigadier William Edmund Vaudrey (1894–1968)
• Brigadier Edward William Drummond Vaughan (1894–1953)
• Brigadier Gerald Birdwood Vaughan-Hughes (1896–1983)
• Brigadier Charles Hilary Vaughan Pritchard (1905–1976)
• Brigadier Harley Gerald Veasey (1896–1982)
• Brigadier Sir Charles Michael Dillwyn-Venables-Llewelyn (1900–1976)
• Brigadier Arthur Noel Venning (1895- )
• General Sir Walter King Venning (1882–1964)
• Major-General Gerald Lloyd Verney (1900–1957)
• Charles Broke Vere
• Major-General William Henry McNeile Verschoyle-Campbell (1884–1946)
• Brigadier John Vicary (1893- )
• Brigadier James Sholto Vickers (1910- )
• Lieutenant-General Wilmot Gordon Hilton Vickers (1890–1987)
• Brigadier Richard Montague Villiers (1905–1973)
• Brigadier Frederick Hubert Vinden (1895–1977)
• Brigadier George Arthur Viner (1900- )
• Brigadier John Alan Vivian (1898- )
• Brigadier Robert John Volkers (1908- )
• Brigadier John Leslie Von der Heyde (1896–1974)
• Stanley Brenton Von Donop
  Stanley Brenton Von Donop
  Major-General Sir Stanley Brenton Von Donop KCB KCMG is a former Master-General of the Ordnance.-Military career:Von Donop was commissioned into the Royal Artillery. He served in the Second Boer War and in 1901 was appointed Commanding Officer of Lord Methuen's Composite Regiment of Australian...
  
  
• William John Vousden
  William John Vousden
  Major General William John Vousden VC CB was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
  
  
• Charles Vallancey
  Charles Vallancey
  General Charles Vallancey FRS was a British military surveyor sent to Ireland. He remained there and became an authority on Irish antiquities, though his theories were later judged to be fanciful and groundless.-Early life:...
  
  
• John Vaughan
  John Vaughan (British army officer)
  Lieutenant-General Sir John Vaughan KB , styled The Honourable from 1741, was a British soldier and a Member of Parliament in both the British and Irish Parliaments.-Background and early career:...
  
  
• Richard Vickers
  Richard Vickers
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• Freddie Viggers
  Freddie Viggers
  Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Richard "Freddie" Viggers, KCB, CMG, MBE, DL is a former senior British Army officer, who served as Adjutant-General to the Forces immediately prior to his retirement 2008. He served as Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod from 30 April 2009 to 28 October 2010...
  
  
• John Vincent
• Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian
  Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian
  Lieutenant General Richard Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian GCB, GCH, PC , known as Sir Hussey Vivian from 1815 to 1828 and Sir Hussey Vivian, Bt from 1828 to 1841, was a British cavalry leader who came of a Cornish family.-Early career:Educated at Harrow and Exeter College, Oxford, Vivian entered...
  
  
• Major-General Colwyn Henry Hughes Vulliamy (1894–1972)
• Richard Vyse
  Richard Vyse
  General Richard Vyse was a British general, and briefly a Member of Parliament for Beverley.Vyse was born at Lichfield, Staffordshire the younger son of William Vyse , of Lichfield, and younger brother of William Vyse , canon residentiary and chancellor of Lichfield...
  
  
• Richard William Howard Vyse
  Richard William Howard Vyse
  Major-General Sir Richard William Howard Vyse, KCMG was a British soldier, anthropologist and Egyptologist. He was also Member of Parliament for Beverley and Honiton .-Family life:...
  
  
• Major-General Ralph Ernest Vyvyan (1891–1971)

W

• Edward Gurth Wace  Controller of Labour
• Brigadier Thomas Thelwall Waddington (1888–1958)
• Brigadier Charles Gordon Campbell Wade (1900- )
• Major-General Douglas Asthon Lofft Wade
  Ashton Wade
  Major-General Ashton Wade CB OBE MC was a British Army officer who led Malaya District after World War II.-Military career:...
  
   (1898–1996)
• Brigadier Ernest Wentworth Wade (1889–1952)
• Thomas Stewart Herschel Wade  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Frederick William George Wadeson  GOC Cavalry Brigade
• Brigadier Richard Danvers Waghorn (1896–1975)
• William Danvers Waghorn  Chief Engineer
• Cyril Mosley Wagstaff
  Cyril Wagstaff
  Major General Cyril Mosley Wagstaff CB CMG CIE DSO was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.-Military career:...
  
    Head of British Mission AEF
• Arthur Reginald Wainewright  CRA
• Major-General Charles Brian Wainwright (1893–1968)
• Sir Hereward Wake, 13th Baronet  BGGS Supreme War Council
• Brigadier John Chrysostom Barnabas Wakeford (1898–1989)
• Major-General Arthur Victor Trocke Wakely (1886–1959)
• Brigadier Arthur Gordon Walch (1906- )
• Harold Bridgwood Walker
  Harold Bridgwood Walker
  Lieutenant General Sir Harold Bridgwood Walker KCB, KCMG, DSO was an English general who led Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War...
  
    GOC Infantry Division
• Henry Alexander Walker  GOC Infantry Brigade
• William George Walker
  William George Walker
  Major General William George Walker VC, CB was a British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
  
    GOC Infantry Division
• John Waldegrave, 3rd Earl Waldegrave
  John Waldegrave, 3rd Earl Waldegrave
  John Waldegrave, 3rd Earl Waldegrave was a British politician and soldier.Waldegrave was the youngest son of the 1st Earl Waldegrave. He joined the 1st Regiment of Foot in 1735, rising to the rank of Captain in 1739...
  
  
• Count Ferdinand Ernst Gabriel von Waldstein
  Count Ferdinand Ernst Gabriel von Waldstein
  Count Ferdinand Ernst Gabriel von Waldstein was a German nobleman and patron of the arts. A member of the Waldstein family and an early patron of Beethoven, his political and military roles included Geheimrat in Bonn, lieutenant-general in the British army, and Komtur in the Teutonic...
  
  
• Charles Wale
  Charles Wale
  Charles Wale was an English General and the last British governor of Martinique between about 1812 and 1815 He became Colonel of the 33rd Regiment of Foot on 25 February 1831 and was given the governorship in recognition of his capture Guadeloupe from the French...
  
  
• Brigadier Owen Murton Wales (1895–1969)
• Charles, Prince of Wales
  Charles, Prince of Wales
  Prince Charles, Prince of Wales is the heir apparent and eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Since 1958 his major title has been His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. In Scotland he is additionally known as The Duke of Rothesay...
  
  
• Harold Bridgwood Walker
  Harold Bridgwood Walker
  Lieutenant General Sir Harold Bridgwood Walker KCB, KCMG, DSO was an English general who led Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War...
  
  
• Brigadier John Eric Walker (1898- )
• Brigadier John Francis Walker (1901- )
• Major-General Joseph Walker (1890–1965)
• Mark Walker
  Mark Walker
  For the fisher and songwriter with the same name, see Mark Walker . For the Canadian Ethicist, see Mark Alan WalkerGeneral Sir Mark Walker VC KCB was born in Gore Port, Finea, County Westmeath in Ireland...
  
  
• Michael Walker, Baron Walker of Aldringham
• Brigadier Niel Alexander McDonald Walker
  Niel Walker
  Niel Alexander McDonald Walker was a British army officer and a cricketer who played in tournaments in India and for Derbyshire.Walker was born at Poona, Maharashtra, India...
  
   (1895–1960)
• Brigadier Robert Fowler Walker (1890–1976)
• Walter Walker
• William George Walker
  William George Walker
  Major General William George Walker VC, CB was a British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
  
  
• Major-General John Christopher Walkey (1903–1989)
• Peter Wall
  Peter Wall (British Army officer)
  General Sir Peter Anthony Wall, KCB, CBE, ADC Gen. is a senior British Army officer, currently the Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army....
  
  
• Christopher Wallace
• Major-General Charles John Wallace (1886–1943)
• Brigadier Quentin Vaughan Brooke Wallace (1891- )
• Brigadier Robert Peel Waller (1895- )
• Francis Edward Wallerstein  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Major-General Algernon Ransome Wallis (1896- )
• Brigadier Cedric Wallis (1896–1996)
• Brigadier Charles Robinson Ashby Wallis (1898–1962)
• Brigadier Arthur Patrick Walsh (1899- )
• Major-General Francis James Walsh (1900–1987)
• Major-General George Peregrine Walsh (1899–1972)
• Hunt Walsh
  Hunt Walsh
  General Hunt Walsh was a British soldier and politician.He served as an officer in the 28th Regiment of Foot, rising to the rank of major in May 1753, and appointed to the lieutenant-colonelcy on 2 February 1757...
  
  
• Michael J. H. Walsh
  Michael J. H. Walsh
  Major-General Michael John Hatley Walsh CB DSO was a senior British Army officer and the Chief Scout of the United Kingdom and Overseas Territories between 1982 and 1988.-Education:...
  
  
• Richard Knox Walsh  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Frederick William Henry Walshe  CRA
• Henry Ernest Walshe  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Edward Charles Walthall Delves Walthall  CRA
• Brigadier William Edward Walters-Symons (1896- )
• Brigadier Bendyshe Brome Walton (1905- )
• Brigadier Sir George Hands Walton ( -1976)
• Joseph Walton
  Joseph Walton (British Army officer)
  Major-General Joseph Walton was Master Gunner, St James's Park, the most senior Ceremonial Post in the Royal Artillery after the Sovereign.-Military career:...
  
  
• Brigadier Walter Frederick Walton (1899- )
• Robert Wanless O'Gowan  GOC Infantry Division
• Major-General Llewelyn Wansbrough-Jones (1900–1974)
• Robert Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage
• Francis Ward
  Francis Ward (British Army officer)
  Major General Francis William Ward CB was Master Gunner, St James's Park, the most senior Ceremonial Post in the Royal Artillery after the Sovereign.-Military career:...
  
  
• Philip Ward
• Henry Dudley Ossulston Ward  BGRA
• George Warde
  George Warde
  -Military career:Born the second son of John Warde of Squerryes Court in Westerham, Warde became a Colonel in the Royal Horse Guards. In 1773 he moved on becoming became Colonel of the 14th Dragoons...
  
  
• Alexander Ernest Wardrop  GOCRA
• Fabian Arthur Goulstone Ware  Vice-Chairman IWGC
• Charles Warren
  Charles Warren
  General Sir Charles Warren, GCMG, KCB, FRS was an officer in the British Royal Engineers. He was one of the earliest European archaeologists of Biblical Holy Land, and particularly of Temple Mount...
  
  
• John Waters
  John Waters (British Army officer)
  General Sir Charles John Waters GCB CBE is a former Commander in Chief, UK Land Forces.-Army career:Educated at Oundle School, John Waters was commissioned into the Gloucestershire Regiment in February 1956. He was made Commanding Officer of 1st Bn Gloucestershire Regiment in 1975...
  
  
• Henry Bulckley Burlton Watkis  GOC Infantry Division
• Major-General John Rollo Noel Warburton (1890–1962)
• General Sir Alfred Dudley Ward
  Alfred Dudley Ward
  General Sir Alfred Dudley Ward, GCB, KBE, DSO , was a British Army officer during the Second World War and later Governor of Gibraltar. He served as an ordinary soldier for three years before being sent for officer training in 1926...
  
   (1905–1991)
• Brigadier George Thexton Wards (1897–1991)
• Brigadier Richard Fenwick Ware (1899- )
• Brigadier Michael Henry Frank Waring (1905- )
• Major-General Dermot Frederick William Waring (1895–1945)
• Brigadier Edward Galway Warren (1893–1975)
• Brigadier Harbin Edward Warry (1895- )
• Lieutenant-General Sydney Rigby Wason (1887–1969)
• Major-General George Guy Waterhouse (1886–1975)
• Brigadier Bernard Springett Watkins (1900–1977)
• Major-General Harry Reginald Bristow Watkins (1894- )
• Major-General Geoffrey Lionel Watkinson (1899–1971)
• General Sir Daril Gerard Watson
  Daril Watson
  General Sir Daril Gerard Watson GCB CBE MC was a British Army General during World War II.-Military career:Daril Watson was enlisted into the British Army in 1914 at the start of World War I. He was commissioned into the Highland Light Infantry in 1915...
  
   (1888–1967)
• Brigadier E.E. Watson ( - )
• Major-General Gilbert France Watson (1895–1976)
• Major-General Norman Vyvyan Watson (1898–1974)
• David Watson  GOC Infantry Division
• James Watson
  James Watson (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant General Sir James Watson KCB was Commander-in-Chief, India.-Military career:Watson was commissioned into the 14th Regiment of Foot reaching the rank of Major in 1802...
  
  
• John Edward Watson
  John Watson (VC)
  General Sir John Watson VC, GCB was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. An officer serving with the Bengal Army, Watson received his Victoria Cross for...
  
    GOC Infantry Brigade
• Donald Munro Watt  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Redmond Watt
  Redmond Watt
  General Sir Charles Redmond "Reddy" Watt KCB, KCVO, CBE was Commander-in-Chief at Land Command.-Army career:Reddy Watt was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford and was commissioned into the Welsh Guards in 1972...
  
  
• Louis de Watteville
  Louis de Watteville
  Louis de Watteville , whose name was sometimes germanicised to Abraham Ludwig Karl von Wattenwyl was born in Switzerland but became a Major General in the British Army, and fought in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812....
  
  
• Herbert Edward Watts  GOC Corps
• Andrew Gilbert Wauchope
  Andrew Gilbert Wauchope
  Major-General Andrew Gilbert Wauchope was a British Army officer, killed commanding a brigade at the Battle of Magersfontein in the South African War....
  
  
• Andrew Scott Waugh
  Andrew Scott Waugh
  Major General Sir Andrew Scott Waugh was a British army officer and surveyor now remembered as the man who named the highest mountain in the world after Sir George Everest, his predecessor in the post of Surveyor-General of India.-Career:Waugh began work on the Great Trigonometric Survey of India...
  
  
• Brigadier Gordon Redvers Way (1900–1981)
• Brigadier Jack Cassell Waycott (1898- )
• Brigadier Francis Wynne Webb (1907–1968)
• Daniel Webb
• Tom Ince Webb-Bowen
  Tom Webb-Bowen
  Air Vice-Marshal Sir Tom Ince Webb-Bowen KCB, CMG, RAF was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force during the first half of the 20th century.-RAF career:...
  
    GOC RFC Brigade
• William Ince Webb-Bowen  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Evelyn John Webb-Carter
  Evelyn John Webb-Carter
  Major General Sir Evelyn John Webb-Carter KCVO, OBE, DL was the last 'Colonel of The Regiment' of The Duke of Wellington's Regiment , before their amalgamation into the Yorkshire Regiment, 3rd Battalion .-Early life:Webb-Carter is the son of Brigadier Brian Wolsey Webb-Carter DSO & Bar, OBE .He...
  
  
• Norman William Webber  BGGS
• Gilbert Henry Wedgwood  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Ralph Lewis Wedgwood  Director of Docks
• George Alexander Weir
  George Alexander Weir
  General Sir George Alexander Weir KCB, CMG, DSO was a British Army officer who served in the Second Boer War and World War I.-Early life:...
  
    GOC Infantry Brigade
• Brigadier John Wedderburn-Maxwell (1894–1990)
• Lieutenant-General Ronald Morce Baron Weeks of Ryton
  Ronald Weeks, 1st Baron Weeks
  Lieutenant-General Ronald Morce Weeks, 1st Baron Weeks KCB, CBE, DSO, MC, TD was a British Army General during the Second World War.-Military career:...
  
   (1890–1960)
• Brigadier Edward Theyre Weigall (1895- )
• General Sir George Weir
  George Alexander Weir
  General Sir George Alexander Weir KCB, CMG, DSO was a British Army officer who served in the Second Boer War and World War I.-Early life:...
  
   (1876-1951)
• Brigadier Richard Ambrose Weir (1891- )
• Brigadier John Digby Welch (1903- )
• Brigadier Godfrey de Vere Welchman (1894- )
• Brigadier Robert Maximilian Armitage Welchman (1898- )
• Major-General Charles Joseph Weld
  Charles Joseph Weld
  Charles Joseph Weld CIE MC was an officer in the British Indian Army during the interwar years, World War II, and post-war.As part of Iraqforce, Brigadier Weld commanded the 21st Indian Brigade of the Indian 10th Infantry Division during the Anglo-Iraqi War and the Syria-Lebanon campaign.As part...
  
   (1893–1962)
• General Sir Henry Colville Barclay Wemyss
  Colville Wemyss
  General Sir Henry Colville Barclay Wemyss KCB KBE DSO MC was Adjutant-General to the Forces.-Military career:Colville Wemyss was son of Alexander Wemyss. He was commissioned in the Royal Engineers in 1910. He served in the First World War, being awarded the DSO and MC. In 1920 he transferred to...
  
   (1891–1959)
• Major-General Sir Harold Augustus Wernher, 3rd Baronet (1893–1973)
• Major-General Clement Arthur West (1892–1972)
• General Sir Michael Montgomerie Alston Roberts West
  Michael West (British Army officer)
  General Sir Michael Montgomerie Alston-Roberts-West GCB DSO and two bars was a British Army General who achieved high office in the 1960s. He served in World War II and the Korean War...
  
   (1905–1978)
• Brigadier Ernest Walter Davie Western
  Ernest Walter Davie Western
  Brigadier Ernest Walter Davie Western was the first son of Walter Western and Elizabeth Ann Heard . E.W.D. Western was born on 2 Feb, 1901, in Gibraltar. He was educated at the Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys, Canterbury, in 1918...
  
   (1901–1952)
• Brigadier Peter Germanus Westmacott (1894- )
• Lord Charles Wellesley
  Lord Charles Wellesley
  Major-General Lord Charles Wellesley was a British politician, soldier and courtier. He was the second son of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, and Catherine Pakenham. He married Augusta Pierrepont, daughter of Henry Pierrepont, on 9 July 1844...
  
  

General Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Earl of Oporto

• Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington
  Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington
  Lieutenant-General Arthur Richard Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington KG, PC , styled Lord Douro between 1812 and 1814 and Marquess of Douro between 1814 and 1852, was a British soldier and politician...
  
  
• Richard Ashmore Colley Wellesley  BGRA
• Thomas Wentworth
• Claude Berners Westmacott  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster
  Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster
  Major-General Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, , is the son of Robert George Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster, and his wife Hon. Viola Maud Lyttelton. He is the owner of property company Grosvenor Group...
  
  
• John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland
  John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland
  General John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland GCB, GCH, PC , styled Lord Burghersh until 1841, was a British soldier, politician, diplomat and musician.-Background:...
  
  
• Percy Thuillier Westmorland  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Spencer Vaughan Percy Weston  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Lieutenant-General Eric Culpeper Weston (1888–1950)
• Major-General Victor John Eric Westropp (1897–1964)
• Lieutenant-General Sir Harry Edward de Robillard Wetherall
  Harry Edward de Robillard Wetherall
  Lieutenant General Sir Harry Edward de Robillard Wetherall KBE CB DSO MC was an officer in the British Army during World War I and World War II.-Military career:Wetherall was commissioned into the Gloucestershire Regiment in 1909....
  
   (1889–1979)
• Frederick Augustus Wetherall
  Frederick Augustus Wetherall
  Sir Frederick Augustus Wetherall, GCH , British General, of Castle Bear House, Ealing. He took part in the conquest of Java during the Napoleonic Wars, during which campaign he was assisted by his son George Wetherall....
  
  
• George Augustus Wetherall
  George Augustus Wetherall
  General Sir George Augustus Wetherall was a British General.-Military career:He was the son of General Sir Frederick Wetherall and was educated in the senior department of the Royal military college, and entered the army in 1803...
  
  
• Leslie Whateley
  Leslie Whateley
  Dame Leslie Balfour Whateley, DBE, TD was a Director of the Auxiliary Territorial Service during the Second World War....
  
  
• Major-General Mervyn Savile Wheatley (1900–1979)
• Brigadier Sir Edward Oliver Wheeler
  Edward Oliver Wheeler
  Sir Edward Oliver Wheeler participated in the first topographical survey of Mount Everest in 1921. As Brigadier in the British Army was appointed Surveyor General of India in 1941....
  
   (1890–1962)
• Roger Wheeler
• General Sir Lashmer Gordon Whistler (1898–1963)
• Major-General Harry Colwell Whitaker (1892–1975)
• Major-General Sir John Albert Charles Whitaker (1897–1957)
• Major-General Philip Sidney Whitcombe (1893–1989)
• Leonard Lane Wheatley  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Philip Wheatley  CRA
• Sir Francis Wheler, 10th Baronet
  Sir Francis Wheler, 10th Baronet
  Major-General Sir Francis Wheler, 10th Baronet CB was a British Indian Army officer.His grave is in the church of all saints in Leamington Hastings Nr Rugby...
  
  
• Robert Dundas Whigham
  Robert Whigham
  General Sir Robert Dundas Whigham GCB KCMG DSO is a former Adjutant-General to the Forces.-Military career:Educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh and at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Robert Whigham was commissioned into the 1st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment in 1885.He becam...
  
    GOC Infantry Division
• Lashmer Whistler
  Lashmer Whistler
  General Sir Lashmer Gordon Whistler GCB, KBE, DSO & Two Bars, DL , known as Bolo, was a British army officer who served in the First and Second World Wars. In the Second World War he achieved senior ranks serving with Field Marshal Montgomery in North Africa and Europe...
  
  
• Brigadier Aubrey Edward White (1895–1980)
• Major-General Cecil Meadows Frith White (1897–1985)
• Brigadier Christopher Anthony White (1900–1969)
• Brigadier Cyril Jennings White (1898- )
• Cyril Brudenell Bingham White  MGGS
• Brigadier Denis White (1910- )
• Brigadier E.H.L. White ( - )
• Geoffrey Herbert Anthony White
  Geoffrey White (British Army officer)
  Major-General Geoffrey Herbert Anthony White CB CMG DSO was a British Army officer who became Commandant of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.-Military career:...
  
    CRA
• Major-General Percival Napier White (1901–1982)
• Hon. Robert White  GOC Infantry Brigade
• William Lewis White  DA&QMG
• Barney White-Spunner
  Barney White-Spunner
  Lieutenant General Sir Barnabas William Benjamin White-Spunner, KCB, CBE is the current Commander of the British Field Army.-Military career:Educated at Eton College and the University of St Andrews, Barney White-Spunner was commissioned into the Blues and Royals in 1979. He was appointed...
  
  
• Hugh Davie White-Thomson  BGRA
• Major-General Philip Geoffrey Whitefoord (1894–1975)
• Brigadier Robert Douglas Whitehill (1892- )
• John Whitelocke
  John Whitelocke
  -Military career:Whitelocke entered the army in 1778 and served in Jamaica and in San Domingo. In 1805 he was made a lieutenant-general and inspector-general of recruiting, and in 1807 he was appointed to command an expedition to seize Buenos Aires from the Spanish Empire, which was in disarray due...
  
  
• General Sir John Francis Martin Whiteley (1896–1970)
• Major-General Gerald Herbert Penn Whitfield (1896- )
• Major-General John Yeldham Whitfield (1899–1971)
• Edward Nathan Whitley  CRA
• George Whitmore
• Major-General Robert Frederick Edward Whittaker (1894–1967)
• Brigadier Gerald Eden Mynors Whittuck ( - )
• Major-General Henry Martin Whitty (1896–1961)
• Brigadier Noel Irwine Whitty ( - )
• John Tyson Wigan
  John Tyson Wigan
  Brigadier-General John Tyson Wigan, CB, CMG, DSO was a senior British Army officer with the Desert Mounted Corps during World War I who was wounded in action three times during campaigning at the Battle of Gallipoli and during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign...
  
  
• Kenneth Wigram
  Kenneth Wigram
  General Sir Kenneth Wigram GCB OSI CBE DSO was a British Army officer who served in British India. From 1931 to 1934 he was Chief of the General Staff of the Indian Army...
  
    BGGS (O.b.)
• Herbert William Wilberforce  Boulogne Base
• Charles Arthur Wilding  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Ernest Berdoe Wilkinson  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Montagu Grant Wilkinson  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Percival Spearman Wilkinson  GOC Infantry Division
• Frank Godfrey Willan  GOC Infantry Brigade
• James Willcocks
  James Willcocks
  General Sir James Willcocks GCB GCMG KCSI DSO was a British Army officer who held high command during World War I....
  
    GOC Corps
• Edward George Williams  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Guy Charles Williams  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Hugh Bruce Williams  GOC Infantry Division & MGGS
• Oliver De Lancey Williams  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Sydney Frederick Williams  Chief Engineer
• Victor Arthur Seymour Williams  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Weir de Lancey Williams  GOC Infantry Division
• Edward Henry Willis
  Edward Willis (British Army officer)
  Major-General Edward Henry Willis CB CMG was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.-Military career:Willis was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1890. After serving in World War I, he was appointed Major General, Royal Artillery in 1921 and Director of the Royal...
  
    BGRA
• Brigadier John Wickham (1897- )
• Brigadier Leslie Frederick Ethelbert Wieler (1899–1965)
• Brigadier James Buckley Aquilla Wigmore (1887–1962)
• Lieutenant-General Sir Alfred Thomas Wilde (1819–1878) KCB CSI
• Brigadier Alec Warren Greenlaw Wildey (1890- )
• Major-General Godfrey Edward Wildman-Lushington (1897–1970)
• Brigadier H.O. Wiley ( -1960)
• Michael Wilkes
  Michael Wilkes
  General Sir Michael John Wilkes KCB CBE KStJ is a former Adjutant-General to the Forces in the United Kingdom.-Military career:Educated at the King's School, Rochester, Michael Wilkes was commissioned in to the Royal Artillery in 1961. He served as Commanding Officer of 22 SAS and was appointed...
  
  
• Brigadier Claude John Wilkinson (1903–1999)
• Major-General Joseph Harold Wilkinson (1899–1954)
• Lieutenant-General Harry Willans (1892–1943)
• Brigadier John Harte Harris Willans (1902- )
• Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Beresford Dennitts Willcox
  Henry Willcox
  Lieutenant General Sir Henry Beresford Dennitts Willcox KCIE CB DSO MC was a British Army General during World War II.-Military career:Willcox was commissioned into the Sherwood Foresters from the New Zealand Forces in 1911....
  
   (1889–1968)
• James Willcocks
  James Willcocks
  General Sir James Willcocks GCB GCMG KCSI DSO was a British Army officer who held high command during World War I....
  
  
• Prince William, Duke of Cumberland
• Major-General Aubrey Ellis Williams (1888–1977)
• Brigadier Cecil James Williams (1898–1948)
• Brigadier Edgar Trevor Williams (1912–1995)
• Major-General Edward Alexander Wilmot Williams
  Edward Alexander Wilmot Williams
  Major-General Edward Alexander Wilmot Williams CB CBE MC was a British Army officer who commanded 2nd Division.-Military career:...
  
   (1910–1994)
• Brigadier Edward Steven Bruce Williams (1892–1977)
• Brigadier Frederick Christian Williams (1891–1970)
• Brigadier George Giffard Rawson Williams (1894- )
• General Sir Guy Charles Williams
  Guy Williams (British Army officer)
  General Sir Guy Charles Williams KCB CMG DSO was a British Army General during World War II.-Military career:Guy Williams was commissioned into the Royal Engineers and served in World War I....
  
   (1881–1959)
• Lieutenant-General Sir Harold Williams (1897–1971)
• Major-General Sir Leslie Hamlyn Williams (1892–1956)
• Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars
• Brigadier Reginald Thomas Williams (1897- )
• Brigadier Stephen Williams (1896- )
• Brigadier Thomas Victor Williams (1897- )
• Major-General Walter David Abbott Williams (1897–1973)
• Brigadier Maurice Joseph Williamson (1889–1958)
• Michael Willcocks
  Michael Willcocks
  Lieutenant General Sir Michael Alan Willcocks, KCB, CVO was until 30 April 2009 the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod for the Parliament of the United Kingdom's House of Lords. This title is generally shortened to Black Rod....
  
  
• Frederick Willis
  Frederick Willis (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Arthur Willis KCB was a British Army General who held high office in the 1880s.-Military career:Willis was commissioned into the 70th Regiment of Foot in 1844....
  
  
• George Willis
  George Willis (British Army officer)
  General Sir George Harry Smith Willis GCB was a British Army General who achieved high office in the 1880s.-Military career:...
  
  
• David Willison
  David Willison
  Lieutenant-General Sir David Willison KCB, OBE, MC was a British soldier who served with the Royal Engineers between 1939 and 1963, from when he served in a series of military intelligence roles until his retirement from the army in 1975...
  
  
• Brigadier Arthur Cecil Willison (1896–1966)
• Brigadier John Howard German Wills (1899- )
• Sir Henry Wilmot, 5th Baronet
• Major-General John Harold Owen Wilsey
  John Wilsey
  General Sir John Finlay Willasey Wilsey GCB, CBE, DL is a former Commander-in-Chief, UK Land Forces.-Army career:Educated at Sherborne School, John Wilsey was commissioned into the Devonshire and Dorset Regiment in 1959. He served in Northern Ireland between 1976 and 1977 where he was mentioned in...
  
   (1904–1961)
• Major-General Bevil Thomson Wilson (1885–1975)
• Brigadier Constantine Patrick Bartlett Wilson (1899- )
• Charles Stuart Wilson  Chief Engineer
• Francis Adrian Wilson
  Francis Adrian Wilson
  Major General Francis Adrian Wilson CB, CMG, DSO was a senior officer in the British Army who served as Chief of the General Staff in Australia .-Military career:Wilson was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1895...
  
    CRA
• Frederick Maurice Wilson  D-DS and T
• Henry Fuller Maitland Wilson
  Henry Fuller Maitland Wilson
  Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Fuller Maitland Wilson, KCB, KCMG, was a British soldier who served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, the Second Boer War and World War I...
  
    GOC Corps
• Henry Hughes Wilson, Bt  GOC Corps
• Samuel Herbert Wilson
  Samuel Herbert Wilson
  Brigadier General Sir Samuel Herbert Wilson, GCMG, KCB, KBE was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Trinidad and Tobago between 1921 and 1924. He did much to popularise football, offering a Wilson Cup for football....
  
    BGGS
• Brigadier Edward William Gravatt Wilson (1888–1971)
• Lieutenant-General Sir Gordon Wilson (1887–1971)
• Henry Fuller Maitland Wilson
  Henry Fuller Maitland Wilson
  Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Fuller Maitland Wilson, KCB, KCMG, was a British soldier who served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, the Second Boer War and World War I...
  
  
• Henry Hughes Wilson
• Major-General Nigel Maitland Wilson (1884–1950)
• Robert Thomas Wilson
  Robert Thomas Wilson
  General Sir Robert Thomas Wilson Kt was a British general and politician who served in Egypt, Prussia, and was seconded to the Imperial Russian Army in 1812. He sat as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Southwark from 1818 to 1831...
  
  
• General Sir Roger Cochrane Wilson (1882–1966)
• Major-General Thomas Arthur Atkinson Wilson (1882–1958)
• Major-General Thomas Needham Furnival Wilson (1896–1961)
• Brigadier Adam Tyrie Wilson-Brand (1900- )
• Major-General Donald James Wilson-Haffenden (1900–1986)
• Brigadier Arthur John Millard Wilton (1898- )
• Major-General Douglas Neil Wimberley (1896–1983)
• Brigadier Richard Arabin Armine Wimberley (1897- )
• Brigadier John Stephen Windsor (1894- )
• Frederick Drummond Vincent Wing
  Frederick Wing
  Major-General Frederick Drummond Vincent Wing CB was a senior officer of the British Army during the First World War and was one of three British divisional commanders killed in action in the space of week in the aftermath of the Battle of Loos...
  
    GOC Infantry Division
• Charles Rupert Peter Winser  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Major-General Orde Charles Wingate
  Orde Charles Wingate
  Major-General Orde Charles Wingate, DSO and two bars , was a British Army officer and creator of special military units in Palestine in the 1930s and in World War II....
  
   (1903–1944)
• Reginald Wingate
• Brigadier Anthony Desmond Rex Wingfield (1908–1995)
• Major-General Maurice Anthony Wingfield (1883–1956)
• Brigadier Norman Douglas Wingrove (1903- )
• John Winslow
  John Winslow (British army officer)
  Major-General John Winslow , descendant of Pilgrim Edward Winslow, was an officer during the French and Indian War....
  
  
• Ormond de l’Epée Winter  CRA
• Fitzgerald Wintour  GOC Infantry Brigade & DA&QMG
• Evan Alexander Wisdom  GOC Infantry Brigade
• William Maunder Withycombe  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Ormonde Winter
  Ormonde Winter
  Brigadier-General Sir Ormonde de l'Épée Winter KBE CB CMG DSO was a British Army officer and author who after service in World War I was responsible for intelligence operations in Ireland during the Anglo-Irish War...
  
  
• Brigadier Herbert Gregory Winter (1890–1949)
• Sir John Winterton
  Sir John Winterton
  Major General Sir John Willoughby Winterton KCB, KCMG, CBE, DL was a senior British Army officer who was the Military Governor and Commander of the British and US Zone of the Free Territory of Trieste from 1951 to 1954.Winterton was educated at Oundle School and at the Royal Military Academy,...
  
  
• Major-General Sir Thomas John Willoughby Winterton (1898–1987)
• Brigadier Hugh Erskine Winthrop (1897- )
• Brigadier Arthur Kilgour Wintle (1905- )
• Brigadier Richard Leigh Withinton (1893–1969)
• Major-General John Evered Witt (1897–1989)
• Brigadier Frank Hole Witts (1887–1941)
• Lieutenant-General Frederick Vavasour Broome Witts (1889–1969)
• Brigadier Edmond Wodehouse (1894–1960)
• Edward Wolfe
  Edward Wolfe
  For Edward Wolfe the Battle of Britain Pilot see Edward Wolfe General Edward Wolfe was a British army officer who saw action in the War of the Spanish Succession, 1715 Jacobite Rebellion and the War of Jenkins Ear...
  
  
• James Wolfe
  James Wolfe
  Major General James P. Wolfe was a British Army officer, known for his training reforms but remembered chiefly for his victory over the French in Canada...
  
  
• Edward Allan Wood  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Lieutenant-General Sir Ernest Wood (1894–1971)
• Major-General George Neville Wood (1898–1982)
• Brigadier Henry Wood (1906- )
• Brigadier John Morton Devereux Wood (1898- )
• Brigadier Leonard Walter Wood (1895- )
• Phillip Richard Wood  GOC Infantry Division
• Brigadier Ronald Ernest Wood (1897- )
• Thomas Birchall Wood  DA&QMG
• Lieutenant-General Sir John Dane Woodall
  John Woodall (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant General Sir John Woodall KCMG KBE CB MC was General Officer Commanding Northern Ireland District.-Military career:Woodall was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1915 during the latter phases of World War I...
  
   (1897–1985)
• Wilfred James Woodcock  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Brigadier Edward Cecil James Woodford (1901–1988)
• Edward Woodgate
  Edward Woodgate
  Major General Sir Edward Robert Prevost Woodgate, KCMG, CB, was a British Army Officer.-Military career:Woodgate was born in November 1845 in Belbroughton Worcestershire, the son of Rev Henry Arthur Woodgate, the rector of Belbroughton Holy Trinity Church. He was educated at Radley College and...
  
  
• Brigadier Charles Hall Woodhouse ( -1962)
• Brigadier E. Woodhouse ( - )
• Brigadier Francis Victor Reginald Woodhouse (1897- )
• Brigadier Harold Lister Woodhouse (1887–1960)
• Brigadier Harold Sealy Woodhouse (1894–1943)
• Brigadier Louis James Woodhouse (1896- )
• Tom Percy Woodhouse  DGMS
• Charles Richard Woodroffe  DA&QMG
• Major-General Edward Ambrose Woods (1891–1957)
• Brigadier Edward Galbraith Woods (1906–1951)
• Major-General Ernest Woods (1894–1971)
• Hugh Kennedy Woods  GOC Tank Brigade
• Brigadier John Henry Woods (1891- )
• John Alfred Hudson Woodward  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Brigadier Douglas Stewart Hillersdon Woodward (1895- )
• Brigadier Richard Dean Townsend Woolfe (1888–1966)
• Charles Louis Woollcombe
  Charles Woollcombe
  Lieutenant General Sir Charles Louis Woollcombe KCB KCMG was a British Army General during World War I.-Military career:Woollcome was commissioned into the King's Own Scottish Borderers in 1877...
  
    GOC Corps
• Major-General Christopher Geoffrey Woolner (1893–1984)
• Major-General Richard Montague Wootten (1889–1979)
• Major-General Robert Harley Wordsworth
  Robert Harley Wordsworth
  Major-General Robert Harley Wordsworth was an officer in the British Indian Army during World War II.From 1942, major-general Wordsworth commanded the 31st Indian Armoured Division. As part of the British 10th Army, his division was stationed in Persia in 1942...
  
   (1894–1984)
• Rivers Berney Worgan  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Frank Wormald  GOC Cavalry Brigade
• Richard Worsley
  Richard Worsley
  General Sir Richard Edward Worsley GCB OBE is a British Army General who achieved high office in the 1980s.-Military career:Educated at Radley College, Worsley was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in 1942....
  
  
• Major-General Geoffrey Christopher Hale Wortham (1913–1967)
• Henry Wray
  Henry Wray
  Lieutenant-General Henry Wray CMG was a Royal Engineers officer who arrived in Fremantle on 12 December 1851 and was responsible for carrying out the construction plans for Fremantle Prison for Edmund Henderson....
  
  
• John Cecil Wray  CRA
• Brigadier Arthur John Wright (1888- )
• Brigadier Maurice Vernon Wright (1901- )
• Wallace Duffield Wright
  Wallace Duffield Wright
  Brigadier General Wallace Duffield Wright VC, CB, CMG, DSO was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.Wright was 27 years old, and a lieutenant in the 1st Battalion, The...
  
    BGGS
• Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick George Wrisberg (1895–1982)
• John Wrottesley, 1st Baron Wrottesley
  John Wrottesley, 1st Baron Wrottesley
  John Wrottesley, 1st Baron Wrottesley , known as Sir John Wrottesley, 9th Baronet, from 1787 to 1838, was a British soldier and Member of Parliament....
  
  
• John Bartholomew Wroughton  B-G Personal Services
• Brigadier Arthur Geoffrey Wyatt (1900–1960)
• Brigadier Richard John Penfold Wyatt (1892–1954)
• Brigadier Wilfred Penfold Wyatt (1889–1966)
• Louis John Wyatt  GOC Infantry Brigade
• William Wylde
  William Wylde
  General William Wylde CB was Master Gunner, St James's Park, the most senior Ceremonial Post in the Royal Artillery after the Sovereign.-Military career:...
  
  
• Henry Wyndham
• John George Erskine Wynne  CHA
• Francis Arthur Wynter  CHA

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• Hon. Henry Yarde-Buller  British Mission to French GQG
• Brigadier Morris Yates  (1900- )
• Clement Yatman  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Brigadier Kenneth Darlaston Yearsley  (1891- )
• Brigadier Herbert Charles James Yeo  (1892- )
• Robert Young  GOC Infantry Brigade
• Peter Young
  Peter Young (British Army officer)
  Major General Peter George Francis Young CB CBE was a senior British Army officer who was General Officer Commanding Cyprus District from 1962 to 1964.-Military career:...
  
  
• Elton Younger
  Elton Younger
  Major-General Allan Elton Younger DSO OBE, was a British soldier and author, Colonel Commandant of the Royal Engineers from 1974 to 1979.-Background:Younger's family has a long military tradition...
  
  
• Major-General Bernard Keith Young  (1892–1969)
• Brigadier Desmond Young  (1892–1966)
• Brigadier Henry Ayerst Young  (1895–1952)
• Brigadier Peter Young  (1915–1988)
• Major-General John Edward Talbot Younger  (1888–1974)
• Major-General Ralph Younger  (1904–1985)
• Brigadier George Edward Younghusband (1896–1970)
• John French, 1st Earl of Ypres
  John French, 1st Earl of Ypres
  Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres, KP, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCMG, ADC, PC , known as The Viscount French between 1916 and 1922, was a British and Anglo-Irish officer...