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Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
British Army field marshal (1883–1963)
Alfred Taylor (British Army officer)
British soldier
Arthur Harris
Commander of RAF Bomber Command during WWII
Arthur Percival
British army officer in the First and Second World Wars
Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder
Senior Royal Air Force commander
B. H. Liddell Hart
British historian and theoretician of war (1895-1970)
Bernard Montgomery
Senior British Army officer
Charles George Gordon
British general (1833–1885)
David Stirling
British mountaineer, World War II British Army officer, and the founder of the Special Air Service
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
British Field Marshal
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
British Army general
Edward Smith (sea captain)
Captain of the RMS Titanic
Frederic John Walker
Royal Navy captain
Giffard Le Quesne Martel
British Army officer (1889–1958)
Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
British field marshal; Governor General of Canada (1891–1969)
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
British army officer and colonial administrator (1850–1916)
Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard
Royal Flying Corps commander and first Royal Air Force Chief of the Air Staff (1873-1956)
J. F. C. Fuller
British Army general
James Stirling (Royal Navy officer)
British naval officer and colonial administrator (1791–1865)
John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe
Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet (1859–1935)
Lord Mountbatten
British statesman and naval officer (1900–1979)
Mike Jackson (British Army officer)
British Army general
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
British soldier and founder of The Scout Association (1857–1941)
Sidney Reilly
Russian-born adventurer and secret agent
T. E. Lawrence
19th- and 20th-century British archaeologist, army officer, and diplomat
William Birdwood
British Army general
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
Former Governor-General of Australia (1891-1970)