- Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman, orator and strategist, Churchill was also a soldier in the British Army. He has been studied to a unique extent as part of modern British and world history. - Richard Dannatt
General Sir Francis Richard Dannatt, KCB, CBE, MC (born 23 December 1950) is the Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army. - Gerry Adams
Gerard Adams - Mike Jackson
General Sir Michael "Mike" Jackson, GCB, CBE, DSO, (born 21 March 1944) is a British army officer, formerly Chief of the General Staff. He was formerly commander of KFor in Kosovo as well as UNPROFOR (see Timeline of UN peacekeeping missions) commander in Bosnia and Herzegovina. - Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader best known for his involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth and for the brutal war exercised in his conquest of Ireland. He was born in Huntingdon, seventy miles north of London, into the ranks of the middle gentry, and remained relatively obscure for his first forty years, … - John Howard
Major John Howard, DSO (1912-1999) was a British Army officer who led the World War II assault on "Pegasus", a vital bridge over the Caen Canal of the River Orne. - Simon Mann
Simon Mann (B. 26 June 1952) is a security expert, mercenary and former British Army officer, and South African citizen presently facing extradition to Equatorial Guinea, against which he is accused of leading a failed coup d'etat. Once extradited and convicted, he is likely to serve a minimum 30 year prison sentence at Black Beach prison. - John Thomas
John Thomas (1886 - 1954) 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 31 years old, and a Lance-Corporal in the 2/5th Battalion, The North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's), British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 30 November 1917 at Fontaine, … - Thomas Smith
Sir Thomas (Broun) Smith, QC, FBA, FRSE (3 December 1915 - 15 October 1988) was a lawyer, soldier and academic. Smith was the son of John Smith, DL, JP, and Agnes Smith. He married in 1940, Ann Dorothea Tindall. He studied at Christ Church, Oxford, (MA 1937, Boulter exhibitioner, Eldon Scholar). He was called to the English Bar in 1938 and admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland in 1947. - Charles Lee
Charles Lee (February 6 1732 - October 2, 1782) was a British soldier turned Virginia planter who was a Major General of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. Lee was born in Cheshire England. By the age of twelve, he was already commissioned as an ensign in the British Army. Lee served under Major General Edward Braddock in the French and Indian War along with fellow officers George Washington, Thomas Gage, and Horatio Gates. - David Jones
David Jones (10 January 1891 - 7 October 1916) 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 25 years old, and a Sergeant in the 12th Battalion, The King's (Liverpool) Regiment, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 3 September 1916 at Guillemont, France, … - John Simpson
Major John Simpson (d. October 28, 1825) of Deerfield, New Hampshire, fired the first gun on the American side, at the Battle of Bunker Hill in the American Revolutionary War. Col. John Stark had instructed the men in his Regiment not to fire until the British army had arrived at a certain point designated by him, which was within 40 paces (30 m) of the American works. But when the redcoats had advanced to within the distance the major (then a private), … - John Simpson
John Simpson (Edinburgh 29 January 1826 - 27 October 1884) 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. Simpson, 32 years old, was a quartermaster-sergeant in the 42nd Regiment of the British Army, later the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), during the Indian Mutiny of April 15, 1858. - James Wilson
James Wilson was a Fenian who was transported as a convict to Western Australia. Born James McNally in Newry, County Down, Ireland on February 6 1836, little is known of his early life. He apparently joined the British Army at the age of 17 (enlisting under a false name) to avoid arrest for the battery of a police officer. He served in India before returning to Ireland where he became a Fenian, being sworn into the Irish Republican Brotherhood in 1864. - Tim Collins
Colonel (retd) Tim Collins OBE (born Belfast, Northern Ireland, April 1960) is a former colonel in the British Army. He is best known for his role in the Iraq War in 2003, and his inspirational eve-of-battle speech, a copy of which apparently hangs in the White House's Oval Office. By 2005 he was to make a complete about-face on his assessment of the war, calling it a "catastrophe" and a "right-rollicking cock-up". - Richard Holmes
Edward Richard Holmes CBE TD JP (born March 29 1946), known as Richard Holmes, is a British soldier and noted military historian, particularly well-known through his many television appearances. Holmes was educated at the University of Cambridge, as well as Northern Illinois University and the University of Reading. In 1964, he enlisted in the Territorial Army, the part-time volunteer reserve organisation of the British Army. - Richard Montgomery
Richard Montgomery (December 2, 1736 - December 31, 1775) was an Irish-American soldier who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. - Patrick Mercer
Patrick John Mercer OBE (born 26 June 1956) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Newark. - Tommy Atkins
Tommy Atkins (often just Tommy) is a term for a common soldier in the British Army that is particularly associated with World War I. German soldiers would call out to Tommy across no man's land if they wished to speak to a British soldier. French and Commonwealth troops would also call British soldiers "Tommies". In more recent times, the term Tommy Atkins has been used less frequently, although the name "Tom" is occasionally still heard, … - Henry Harrison
Captain Henry Harrison was an Irish politician and Irish Parliamentary/Parnellite Member of Parliament for Mid Tipperary from 1890 to 1892. He was later an British Army officer, serving in World War I, an extensive writer, and proponent of improved relations between the United Kingdom and Ireland. A Protestant, Harrison was the son of Henry Harrison of Holywood and Ardkeen, Co. Down and of Letitia Tennent. She was the daughter of Robert James Tennent, … - William Alexander
William Alexander (1726 - 1783), who claimed the disputed title of Earl of Stirling, was an American major-general during the American Revolutionary War. Born in New York City, Alexander was an educated, ambitious and bright young man and was proficient in mathematics and astronomy. He joined his mother in a successful provisioning business and, in 1747, married Sarah Livingston, … - Tim Spicer
Tim Spicer is a former Lieutenant-Colonel in the Scots Guards and CEO of the private security company (PSC) Aegis Defence Services. He is a veteran of the Falklands War and served with the British Army in Northern Ireland. He is a former employee of Sandline International, a private military company (PMC) which closed in April 2004. When employed by Sandline International, Spicer was involved in military operations in the Sierra Leone Civil War, … - John Armstrong
John Armstrong (1674-1742) was a British Engineer. He served as Surveyor General of ordinance and chief engineer of the British Army with a rank of Major-General. He was made a fellow of the Royal Academy in 1723. - Sean Bean
Seán Mark Bean is an English film and stage actor. Bean has also acted in a number of television productions as well as performing voice work for computer games and television adverts. As an actor, he adopted the Irish/Scottish spelling "Seán" of his first name. Bean is best known for his role as Boromir, in the The Lord of the Rings films and as James Bond adversary Alec Trevelyan in Goldeneye. - John Alexander
John Alexander was born in Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland (date unknown), died 24 September 1857, and was by birth an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), 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 a Private in the 90th Perthshire Light Infantry (later known as The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)), … - William Dawes
William Dawes, Jr. (April 5, 1745 - February 25, 1799) was one of the three men who alerted colonial minutemen of the approach of British army troops prior to the Battle of Lexington and Concord at the outset of the American Revolution. - John Collins
John Collins VC DCM (September 10, 1880 – September 3, 1951) 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 40 years old, and an Acting Corporal in the 25th Battalion, The Royal Welch Fusiliers, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. - Ian Hamilton
Ian Hamilton QC (born 1925) is a lawyer and Scottish Nationalist. Born in Paisley, Scotland in 1925, the son of a tailor, he attended the John Neilson Institute in Paisley before going on to the University of Glasgow to study law, after having served in the armed forces. It was at university where Hamilton became politically active. A participant in debates at the Glasgow University Union, … - James Smith
James Smith (1871- 18 March 1946) 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 about 26 years old, and a corporal in The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), British Army during the Mohmand Campaign, India when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On the night of 16/17 September 1897, in the Mamund Valley, … - George Clinton
George Clinton (July 26, 1739 - April 20, 1812) was an American soldier and politician. He was the first (and longest-serving) Governor of New York, and then Vice President of the United States under Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. - James Craig
James Craig 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. He was 30 years old, and a colour-sergeant in the Scots (Fusilier) Guards, British Army during the Crimean War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 6 September 1855 at Sebastopol, Crimea, … - Robert Taylor
General Robert Taylor was a general officer of the British Army during the late eighteenth century. In 1783, he was appointed a Cornet in the 5th Dragoon Guards, purchasing his lieutenantcy in 1784 and captaincy in 1785. In June 1790 he purchased his commission as a Major, and as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1792. In 1793 he moved with the regiment from Ireland to Flanders and Germany, where he saw service over the next two years. He was appointed a brevet Colonel in 1796, … - John Harris
Colonel John Harris (May 20, 1790 - May 12, 1864) was the sixth Commandant of the Marine Corps. Harris was born in East Whiteland, Pennsylvania. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps on 23 April 1814. Two months later he was promoted to first lieutenant and, during the summer of that year, served with the forces that opposed the advance of the British on the city of Washington during the concluding days of the War of 1812. - John Barry
John Barry VC (February 1, 1873 - January 8, 1901) born St Mary's parish Kilkenny Ireland, and was by birth 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. He was 27 years old, and a private in the 1st Battalion, The Royal Irish Regiment, British Army during the South African War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. - James Murray
James Murray, VC (February 1859 - July 19, 1942) 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. Murray was born in St Michael's Parish, Cork City, Ireland. He was approximately 21 years old, and a Lance-Corporal in the 2nd Battalion, The Connaught Rangers, … - Sam Browne
General Sir Samuel James Browne VC GCB KCSI (3 October 1824 - 14 March 1901) was a British Army cavalry officer in India and the Near East, best known today as the namesake of the Sam Browne belt. He was born in Barrackpore, India, the son of Dr. John Browne, a surgeon in the Bengal Medical Service and his wife Charlotte (née Swinton). Browne joined the 46th Bengal Native Infantry as a subaltern, participating in action at Ramnuggar, Sadoolapore, Chillianwalla and Gujarat. - James Callaghan
Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC (27 March, 1912 – 26 March, 2005), was Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979. Known as Jim for short (and nicknamed 'Sunny Jim' or 'Big Jim'), Callaghan is the only person to have served in the four Great Offices of State: Prime Minister, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary. - Martin Ingram
Martin Ingram is the pseudonym of an ex-British Army soldier who served in the Intelligence Corp and Force Research Unit (FRU). He has made a number of allegations about the conduct of the British Army, its operations in Northern Ireland via the FRU, and against figures in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) and Sinn Fein. Ingram is allegedly Ian Hurst and is sometimes referred to as Sergeant Jack Grantham, but this is another pseudonym. - John Jacob
Brigadier-General John Jacob, CB (11 January 1812—6 December 1858), was an officer of the British Army who served in India for the major portion of his career. He was born at Woolavington, in the county of Somerset, England, where his father the Reverend Stephen Long Jacob was incumbent. His mother was Susanna, daughter of the Reverend James Bond of Ashford, Kent, England. He was schooled by his father until he obtained his cadetship to Addiscombe. - David Thompson
David Thompson (April 30, 1770 - February 10, 1857), was an English-Canadian fur trader, surveyor, and map-maker, known to some native peoples as "the Stargazer". Over his career he mapped over 3.9 million square kilometres of North America and for this has been described as the "greatest land geographer who ever lived."
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