Same

male, deceased (1859)
Indian Mutiny Victoria Cross recipient, Victoria Cross recipient, BritishArmysoldier, British, Victoria Cross, Scottish
Same (John) Shaw (VC, DCM) (?-27 December 1859) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for...
Robert Quigg

Robert Quigg

male, deceased (1955)
BritishArmysoldier, Irish, battle of the somme, Victoria Cross, First World War, from County Antrim
Robert Quigg VC (February 28, 1885 - 14 May, 1955) was a recipient of the Victoria Cross for his bravery in the Battle of the Somme in the First...
Edward Thomas

Edward Thomas

male, deceased (1917)
British, Army Officer, Killed in action, arras, journalist, poet…BritishArmysoldier, British World War I killed in action
Edward Thomas (March 3, 1878 - April 9, 1917) was one of the best-known English poets who died in World War I. Thomas was born in London as Philip...

Edward Thomas

male
British Military, 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guard, Machine Gun Corps, Royal Horse Artillery, Mons, World War I…British Army, Soldier, BritishArmysoldier
Corporal Edward Thomas, MM, of the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards fired the first shot of the British Army in World War I, at 7am on 22 August...
Andy McNab

Andy McNab

male, deceased (1959)
novelist, Soldier, Distinguished Conduct Medal, sas, gulf war, bravo two zero…BritishArmysoldier, British, British Army, joined the infantry as a boy soldier, British Ministry of Defence
The secretive and dangerous work of the Special Air Service (SAS) has been brought to the attention of a wider public by bestselling author Andy...

John Murray

male, deceased (1911)
British, BritishArmysoldier, Irish, Victoria Cross recipient, Victoria Cross, County Offaly
John Murray (February 1837- 7 November 1911) was born Birr, County Offaly and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most...
James Connolly

James Connolly

male, deceased (1916)
Roman Catholic, BritishArmysoldier, industrial worker of the world, Marxist theorist, Marxist, executions by the United Kingdom…Soldier
James Connolly (June 5, 1868 - May 12, 1916) was an Irish socialist leader. He was born in the Cowgate area of Edinburgh, Scotland, to Irish...
Gordon Kerr

Gordon Kerr

male
Diplomatic Attache, military intelligence, Gordon Highlanders, paramilitary, Stevens Report, Force Research Unit…Provisional Irish Republican Army, Army Intelligence, BritishArmysoldier
Brigadier Gordon Kerr, born in Aberdeen c.1948, is a senior army officer and former diplomatic attaché who was the head of the controversial Force R...
Tommy Atkins

Tommy Atkins

male
German, World War I, French, BritishArmysoldier, tommy, British Army
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...
Michael Caine

Michael Caine

male, 76 years old
British military personnel of the Korean War, From Chelsea, cbe, From Oxfordshire, From Leatherhead, Order of the British Empire…BritishArmysoldier, Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Sir Maurice Joseph Micklewhite CBE (born March 14, 1933), known professionally as Michael Caine, is a two-time Academy Award-winning English film...