Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

male, deceased (1965) (United Kingdom)
World War II political leader, Time Magazine Person of the Year, orator, anti-communist, British, Légion d'honneur recipient…Secretary of State for War, FirstWorldWar, Second Boer War, Boer War prisoner of war, First Lord of the Admiralty
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...
Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen

male, deceased (1918)
Wikisource Futility, Wikisource Strange Meeting, World War I, Recipient of the Military Cross, World War I poet, english poetry…FirstWorldWar, British World War I killed in action, Poison gas in World War I
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (March 18 1893 - November 4 1918) was a British poet and soldier, regarded by many as the leading poet of the First...
Rupert Brooke

Rupert Brooke

male, deceased (1915)
W. B. Yeats, Sonneteers, islomaniac, Killed in action, Old Rugbeian, Royal Navy officer…World War I, FirstWorldWar, British World War I killed in action, War Sonnets, World War I poet
Rupert Chawner Brooke (August 3, 1887 - April 23, 1915) was an English poet known for his idealistic "War Sonnets" written during the First World...
Hew Strachan

Hew Strachan

male
A History of the Great War, 1914-1918, World War I historian, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, On War, Clausewitz, the First World War…The First World War Volume 1 To arms, A History of the First World War, FirstWorldWar
Professor Hew Francis Anthony Strachan, DL, FRSE is a military historian, well known for his work on the administration of the British Army and the...
Pat Barker

Pat Barker

female, 66 years old
The Floating Island, University of Durham, English historical novelist, Durham University, FirstWorldWar, Man Booker Prize…World War I
Pat Barker (born May 8, 1943) is an English writer and historian. She published her first novel, "Union Street", in 1982 and has since won critical...

John Thomas

male, deceased (1954)
World War I, Lance-Corporal, FirstWorldWar, Victoria Cross, British Army, World War I Victoria Cross recipient
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...
Isaac Rosenberg

Isaac Rosenberg

male, deceased (1918)
Alumni of Slade School of Art, Killed in action, English poet, Poems from the Trenches, British World War I killed in action, FirstWorldWar…War poet, World War I, World War I poet
Isaac Rosenberg (November 25, 1890 - April 1, 1918) was an English poet of the First World War who was considered to be one of the greatest of all...
David Jones

David Jones

male, deceased (1916)
Killed in action, World War I, Museum of the King's Regiment, The King's (Liverpool) Regiment, Battle of the Somme Victoria Cross recipient, Guillemont…British World War I killed in action, FirstWorldWar
David Jones (10 January 1891 - 7 October 1916) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry...
Paul von Hindenburg

Paul von Hindenburg

male, deceased (1934)
German Military, chancellor, chancellor of Germany, German, World War I, Enabling Act of 1933…German veteran of World War I, FirstWorldWar
Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, known universally as Paul von Hindenburg (October 2, 1847 - August 2, 1934) was a...
Billy Bishop

Billy Bishop

male, deceased (1956)
Canadian of English descent, Royal Military College of Canada, Recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross, Recipient of the Military Cross, DFC, Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame…World War I Victoria Cross recipient, World War I flying ace, FirstWorldWar
Air Marshal William Avery "Billy" Bishop VC CB DSO & Bar MC DFC ED (8 February 1894 - 11 September 1956) was a Canadian First World War flying ace,...