- Same
Same (John) Shaw (VC, DCM) (?-27 December 1859) 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. - Robert Quigg
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 World War. - Edward Thomas
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. He was educated at Battersea Grammar School, St. Paul's School and Lincoln College, Oxford. His family was of Welsh extraction. Unusually he married while still an undergraduate and determined to live his life by the pen. He was already a seasoned writer before the outbreak of war, … - Edward Thomas
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 1914 outside Mons. He enlisted as a drummer in the Royal Horse Artillery, but transferred to the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards before the outbreak of hostilities. He was promoted to Sergeant on 5 November 1915 and transferred to the Machine Gun Corps in 1916. - Andy McNab
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 McNab . He was the most highly decorated serving soldier in the British Army when he left in 1993. He now lives on a farm in Middlesex with his daughter and wife, Jenny - John Murray
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 prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. - James Connolly
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 immigrant parents. He left school for working life at the age of 11, but despite this he would become one of the leading Marxist theorists of his day. Though proud of his Irish background he also took a role in Scottish politics. In addition, he studied the neutral international language, Esperanto. - Gordon Kerr
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 Research Unit in Northern Ireland. Kerr's military career began when he joined the Gordon Highlanders shortly after leaving university in 1970. He served in Cyprus before his first posting to Northern Ireland in 1972, where he worked as an undercover intelligence officer. - 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, … - Michael Caine
Sir Maurice Joseph Micklewhite CBE (born March 14, 1933), known professionally as Michael Caine, is a two-time Academy Award-winning English film actor. - Simon Weston
Simon Weston OBE (born August 8, 1961) is a former British Army soldier who became well known throughout the United Kingdom after suffering severe burn injuries during the Falklands War. - Jabron Hashmi
Lance-Corporal Jabron Hashmi or Jibran Hashmi was the first British soldier of the Islamic faith to die in the War on Terror. Hashmi was born in Peshawar, Pakistan, and moved to Britain with his family when he was 12. He joined the army in 2004. After completing his training for the Intelligence Corps at DISC, Chicksands, he was posted to 14 Signals Regiment, of the Royal Signals in January 2006 before being sent to Afghanistan. - John Williams
John Williams (May 24 1857-November 25, 1932), 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. - John Coleman
John Coleman VC (July 12, 1798 - May 21, 1858) 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 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 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. - Matty Hull
Lance-Corporal of Horse Matty Hull (31 March 1976 - 28 March 2003) was a British soldier from D Squadron, The Blues and Royals of the Household Cavalry. L/CoH Hull was unlawfully killed in a friendly fire incident whilst deployed on Operation Telic, the British element of the invasion of Iraq. The incident took place 25 miles north of Basra, on 28 March 2003. Whilst not the only incident during Operation Telic, … - Thomas Byrne
Thomas Byrne, (December 1866 - 15 March 1944) was born in St. Thomas, Dublin was 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. - Johnson Beharry
Johnson Gideon Beharry VC (born 26 July 1979, in Grenada), of the 1st Battalion, Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment is a British soldier who, on 18 March 2005, was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration for valour in the British and Commonwealth armed forces, for twice saving members of his unit from ambushes on 1 May and 11 June 2004 at Al-Amarah, Iraq. He sustained serious head injuries in the latter engagement. - Thomas Hughes
Thomas Hughes (30 May 1885 - 8 January 1942) was born in Castleblayney, Co Monaghan 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. He was 31 years old, and a private in the 6th Battalion, The Connaught Rangers, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. - Chris Ryan
Chris Ryan was born in Rowlands Gill, Gateshead, 1961. He joined the regular SAS in 1984 after seven years in the territorial SAS and he was later was one of the members of the disastrous "Bravo Two Zero" mission, during which a patrol from the Special Air Service (SAS) were sent behind enemy lines in the first Gulf War. - Trevor Rees-Jones
Trevor Rees-Jones (also known as Trevor Rees; born 1968) is the former bodyguard for Dodi Al-Fayed and was badly injured in the car accident that killed his charge; Diana, Princess of Wales; and chauffeur Henri Paul. Because he suffered a head injury in the crash, Rees-Jones does not recall particulars of the accident. He allegedly survived because he put on the seatbelt. - 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. - Spike Milligan
Terence Alan Milligan KBE (16 April 1918-27 February 2002), known as Spike Milligan, was an Irish writer, artist, musician, humanitarian, comedian, and poet. He played the piano, trumpet, guitar and saxophone and was the creator, the principal writer and a performing member of "The Goon Show". - 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, … - John Cunningham
John Cunningham VC (June 28, 1897 - February 21, 1941) 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 19 years old, and a private in the 12th (Service) Battalion, (the "Hull Sportsmen's" Pals battalion), The East Yorkshire Regiment, 31st Division during the First World War, at the Battle of the Somme, … - Alexander Wright
Alexander Wright (1826 in Ballymena, County Antrim - 28 July 1858 in Calcutta, India) 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 Cunningham
John Cunningham VC, born in Hall Street, Thurles, County Tipperary (October 22, 1890 - April 16, 1917) 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. - Breaker Morant
Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant was an Anglo-Australian drover, horseman, poet, and soldier whose renowned skill with horses earned him the nickname "The Breaker." Articulate, intelligent, and well educated, he was also a published poet and became one of the better-known "back-block bards" of the 1890s, with the bulk of his work appearing in "The Bulletin" magazine. - 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)), … - Robert Grant
Robert Grant 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. - John Doyle
John Doyle, (abt. 1828 - August 1892) was an Irishman who served in the Eighth King's Royal Irish Hussars (a light cavalry unit) as a Private soldier during the Crimean War and the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Doyle was born at Birr, Ireland, about 1828 and died at Liverpool, England in August, 1892. Doyle enlisted in the British Cavalry at Newbridge, Ireland in 1850. His brother, Patrick, had signed up as an infantryman and died when his transport, … - Mark Wright
Corporal Mark William Wright, GC (22 April 1979 - 6 September 2006) was a soldier in the British Army. He served in the 3rd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment in Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan. He died in Helmand Province in Afghanistan after entering a minefield in an attempt to save the lives of other injured soldiers. It was announced on 14 December 2006 that he would be posthumously awarded the George Cross for his actions. Wright lived in Edinburgh. - John Murray Vc
John Murray (VC), (born Whigsboro, Ireland, February 1839 - died Derrinlough, County Offaly, 8 April 1912), 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. - Lee Clegg
Lance Corporal Lee Clegg is a British Army soldier who was convicted of murder for his involvement in the shooting dead of two teenage joyriders in West Belfast. His conviction was later controversially overturned. The incident took place on September 30, 1990. Clegg, then a Private, and his fellow soldiers manning the checkpoint on the Upper Glen Road, fired nineteen bullets into a stolen Vauxhall Astra that passed through their checkpoint at speed. - Alan Whicker
Alan Donald Whicker, CBE (born August 2, 1921, Cairo, Egypt) is a British journalist and broadcaster. - Frederick Hitch
Frederick Hitch, VC (November 29, 1856-January 6,1913 in Southgate, London) 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. - Edward Barber
Edward Barber (June 10, 1893, Hertfordshire-March 12, 1915) 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 21 years old, and a Private in the 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 12 March 1915 at Neuve Chapelle, France, … - Michael Dickson
Michael "Dixie" Dickson (born 29 October 1964), is a former Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) member/Volunteer from Greenock, Scotland who was convicted of carrying out a June 1996 mortar attack on a British Army base at Osnabruck, Germany. - Donald Payne
Corporal Donald Payne is a former soldier in the British Army who became the first member of the British armed forces to admit to committing a war crime, when he plead guilty on 19 September 2006 to a charge of inhumane treatment under the International Criminal Court Act 2001. He was jailed for one year and dismissed from the army as a result of his actions. On 14 September 2003, a number of Iraqis were detained by British forces in raids on hotels in Basra.
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