- 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. - Prince William Of Wales
Prince William of Wales (William Arthur Philip Louis; born 21 June 1982) is the elder son of Charles, Prince of Wales and the late Diana, Princess of Wales. He is second in the line of succession to the British throne and thrones of each of the other Commonwealth Realms. As the son of the Prince of Wales and grandson of Queen Elizabeth II, Prince William is a member of the British Royal Family. The prince, who is 6 ft 3 inch (191cm) tall, … - Gwynne Dyer
Gwynne Dyer, Ph.D, MA, BA (born April 17, 1943) is a London-based independent Canadian journalist, syndicated columnist and military historian. He was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and joined the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve at the age of sixteen. While still in the naval reserve, he obtained a BA in History from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1963; an MA in Military History from Rice University, Houston, Texas, … - Devon Harris
Devon Harris (born 1964 in Kingston, Jamaica) was one of the members of the first Jamaican Bobsled Team, which first competed in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta. Nicknamed "Pele" after the famous football star, Harris went on to compete in the 1992 Winter Olympics and the 1998 Winter Olympics. Harris grew up in the Kingston ghetto of Sunrise Drive in Olympic Gardens (known as "Waterhouse," or "Firehouse," because it was a volatile area). - Mark Phillips
Captain Mark Phillips, CVO, (born 22 September 1948) is a former Olympic gold-medal-winning horseman and first husband of Anne, Princess Royal. - Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin
Duli Yang Maha Mulia Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin ibni Almarhum Tuanku Syed Putra Jamalullail is the second of ten children of HRH Almarhum Tuanku Syed Putra Jamalullail and HRH Tengku Budriah binti Almarhum ]]Tengku Ismail]]. He was born in Arau, Perlis on 17 May 1943. Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin studied at the Arau Malay School until standard two, … - Antony Beevor
Antony James Beevor (born December 14 1946) is a British historian, educated at Winchester College and Sandhurst. He studied under the famous historian of World War II, John Keegan. Beevor is a former officer with the 11th Hussars, who has published several popular histories on the Second World War and 20th century in general. - Iskander Mirza
Iskander Ali Mirza (Urdu: اسکندر مرزا was the first President of Pakistan and held that position from 1956 until 1958. He was also the fourth Governor-General of Pakistan before it was replaced by the Presidency. - Gary Sheffield
Dr Gary Sheffield is a British academic and military historian. He has published widely, especially on the First World War, and contributes to many newspapers, journals and magazines. He frequently broadcasts on television and radio. He is variously credited as "Gary Sheffield", "G. Sheffield" and "G. D. Sheffield". Sheffield is currently Professor of War Studies at University of Birmingham. - Christopher Pugsley
New Zealander, Christopher Pugsley, is a former career army officer - an infantry lieutenant-colonel - who became a full-time military historian in 1987. In 1994, he became Writing Fellow at the Victoria University of Wellington. He then taught at University of New England, Australia from 1996 to 1999. He is currently Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and Adjunct Senior Fellow at New Zealand's University of Canterbury. - John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer
(Edward) John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (24 January 1924-29 March 1992) was born at 24 Sussex Square, London, England. He was the son of Albert Edward John Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer and his wife the former Lady Cynthia Elinor Beatrix Hamilton, a daughter of James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn. Lord Spencer was educated in Eton College, in the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, and in the Royal Agricultural College. - Gordon Corrigan
Gordon Corrigan MBE is a British solider and historian. Corrigan was educated at the Royal School, Armagh, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He is formerly a regular officer in the British Army's Royal Gurkha Rifles; following his retirement in 1998, he became a freelance military historian. Author of" Mud, Blood and Poppycock", a history of the First World War which challenges a number of popular cultural beliefs about that conflict. - 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. - Peter Hunt
General Sir Peter Hunt GCB, DSO, OBE (1916 - 1988) was Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army. In 1966 Peter Hunt was appointed Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and in 1968 went on to be Commander of Far East Land Forces. In 1970 he became Commander of the British Army of the Rhine. He served as Chief of the General Staff from 1973 to 1976 when he retired from the British Army. - George Tupou V
King George Tupou V is the current King of Tonga. He is the eldest son of the late King Tāufaāhau Tupou IV, and was appointed as Crown Prince on 4 May 1966. In daily life, he was better known by one of his traditional, chiefly titles Tupoutoa. The new king attended primary school in Switzerland and secondary school at King's College in Auckland, and went on to study at Oxford University and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in England. - John Blashford-Snell
Colonel John Nicholas Blashford-Snell OBE (born 22 October 1936) is a British army officer and explorer. John Blashford-Snell was educated at Victoria College, Jersey and at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, then commissioned into the Royal Engineers. - Rupert Smith
General Sir Rupert Smith KCB DSO OBE QGM (with a bar on his DSO) (born 1943) was an officer in the British Army until his retirement in 2002. He was educated at the Haileybury and Imperial Service College and later at Sandhurst. Smith enlisted in 1962 and was commissioned into the Parachute Regiment in 1964. He has served in East and South Africa, Arabia, the Caribbean, Europe and Malaysia. - Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke Of Luxembourg
William, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg ("Guillaume Jean Joseph Marie") born November 11, 1981, is the eldest child of Grand Duke Henri and his wife Maria Teresa Mestre. A descendant of the House of Nassau, founded in 1093, which has ruled Luxembourg since 1890, Guillaume has been Heir Apparent to the throne of Luxembourg since his father's accession in 2000. He is styled "HRH The Hereditary Grand Duke", … - Augustus Pitt Rivers
Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers was an English officer, ethnologist, and archaeologist. He was noted for his innovations in archaeological methods, and in the museum display of archaeological and collections. Born Augustus Henry Lane Fox at Bramham cum Oglethorpe, Yorkshire on 14th April 1827, he was the son of William Lane Fox and Lady Caroline Douglas, a Scottish noblewoman. - Mohammad bin Zayed al Nahyan
Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan is the Crown Prince of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. His position is next in line for the presidency of the country. Sheikh Mohammad is currenty the Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces and frequently meets with heads of state on trips abroad to fulfill his diplomatic duties. Sheikh Mohammad also serves as a Special Advisor to the President of the UAE, his older brother, … - Lynette Nusbacher
Dr Lynette Nusbacher is a Canadian military historian, a Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and a talking head for many historical documentaries. Born in New York City, she grew up on the shores of Lake Ontario. She went to school in Rochester, and took a BA Honours in history and economics at the University of Toronto in 1988, working there in a variety of administrative posts for 6 years. She holds graduate degrees from the Royal Military College of Canada and Oxford. - Josh Lewsey
Owen Joshua Lewsey MBE (born 30 November 1976) is an English rugby union footballer who plays fullback, wing or centre for Wasps and England. Lewsey was born in Bromley in Kent and grew up in Watford in Hertfordshire, where he attended Watford Grammar School for Boys. He played for the Amersham and Chiltern Rugby Football Club. He joined Wasps at eighteen and played for their Colts side and was under-21 captain. - John Ridgway
John Ridgway, MBE, (born 1938), is a British yachtsman and rower. Ridgway was educated at Pangbourne Nautical College and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. In 1966, whilst a Captain in the Parachute Regiment, Ridgway, together with Chay Blyth, rowed across the North Atlantic in a 20ft open dory called English Rose III. They successfully completed this in 92 days. He entered the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race in 1968, … - Darren Jordon
Darren Jordon (born November 23 1960 in London, England) is a British journalist working for the Al-Jazeera 24 hour English language news and current affairs channel, Al Jazeera English. Born in London to Jamaican parents, Jordon was brought up in the West Indies. Educated at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, he spent eight years in the Jamaica Regiment, and was part of the 1983 American led force in the invasion of Grenada. - Talal Of Jordan
Talal I bin Abdullah, King of Jordan was King of Jordan from July 20, 1951 until forced to abdicate due to health reasons (he suffered from schizophrenia) on August 11, 1952. Talal had ascended the Jordanian throne after the assassination in Jerusalem of his father Abdullah I. His son, Hussein, (who was accompanying his grandfather at Friday prayers) was also a near victim. Hussein formally succeeded his father in 1952 (but did not begin his personal rule immediately, … - John Baron
John Charles Baron (born June 21, 1959) British politician and is the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Billericay. - Crispin Blunt
Crispin Jeremy Rupert Blunt (born 15 July 1960) is the Conservative Member of Parliament for the English constituency of Reigate. He replaced rebel Eurosceptic George Gardiner in 1997. Crispin Blunt was born in 1960 and is married with two children. His niece is Golden Globe-award winning actress Emily Blunt. He was educated at Wellington College, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where he won the Queen's Medal, gaining a Regular Commission, … - John Gaspard Le Marchant
John Gaspard le Marchant (1766 - 1812), English major-general, was the son of an officer of dragoons, John Le Marchant, a member of an old Guernsey family. After a somewhat wild youth, Le Marchant, who entered the army in 1781, attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1797. - Stewart Menzies
Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, KCB, KCMG, DSO, MC (pronounce "mingis", with a hard 'g') (January 30, 1890 – May 29, 1968) was Chief of MI6, British Secret Intelligence Service, during and after World War II. Born in London into a wealthy family, Menzies was reputed to be the illegitimate son of the future King Edward VII. He joined the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and later the Life Guards (British Army). During World War I he served in France, … - Patrick Leigh Fermor
Sir Patrick 'Paddy' Michael Leigh Fermor DSO (born 11 February 1915, London) is a British author, scholar and soldier, who played a prominent role behind the lines in the Battle of Crete during World War II. He is famous for his travel writing and is widely regarded as "Britain's greatest living travel writer". - Charles Fergusson
General Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet GCMG, KCB, DSO, MVO (1865-1951) was a Governor-General of New Zealand. Sir Charles was educated at Eton and Sandhurst. Sir Charles' father Sir James Fergusson was a Governor of New Zealand and his son Bernard was also Governor-General of New Zealand. Sir Charles was Lord Lieutenant of Ayrshire from 1937 until his death in 1951. - Khalid bin Sultan
"'Khalid bin Sultan (1949-), eldest son of Saudi Crown Prince Sultan, attended the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst and the US Army's Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. He is also a graduate of the Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. After a lengthy tenure in different branches of Saudi Arabia's armed forces, Prince-General Khalid, … - Gerald Brenan
Gerald Brenan, CBE was a British writer who spent much of his life in Spain. He is best known for "The Spanish Labyrinth", a work of history on the background to the Spanish Civil War, and for "South From Granada: Seven Years in an Andalusian Village". He was awarded a CBE in 1982, and was much honoured in Spain. - Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad al Thani
Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani is the current Heir Apparent of Qatar. He was born on 3 July 1980. He is the son of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of the State of Qatar, and his second wife, Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned. He was educated in Sherborne High School, UK (and Harrow School, UK, for one year, 1995-6) in 1997 receiving his A Levels. He then went on to Sandhurst Military Academy, UK, graduating in 1998. - Colin Clive
Colin Clive (20 January 1900 - 25 June 1937) was an English stage and screen actor most famous for portraying Dr. Frankenstein in James Whale's two Universal Frankenstein films "Frankenstein" and "Bride of Frankenstein". Clive was born in St. Malo, France to a British colonel and attended Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where an injured knee disqualified him from military service and contributed to his becoming a stage actor. - Timothy Granville-Chapman
General Sir Timothy Granville-Chapman, GBE, KCB, ADC Gen (born 5 January 1947) is currently Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff of the British Armed Forces. After education at Charterhouse and the University of Cambridge, Granville-Chapman was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1968 and served at regimental duty until 1973. - Hugh McManners
Hugh McManners is an author, television producer and presenter, journalist, and musician. He was born into an academic family in Oxford, the son of historian The Rev. Professor John McManners FBA, and was brought up in Australia. He was educated at Sydney Church of England Grammar School – Shore - Magdalen College School Oxford, and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He read Geography at St Edmund Hall Oxford. Hugh spent 18 years in the British Army, … - Peter Clarke
Peter Clarke (7 October 1948, Llandudno, Wales - 21 January 2007) was a prominent child welfare activist in Wales. His early life included military training at Sandhurst, from which he moved on to social work in London and Brighton, studying philosophy (BA & MA) at Sussex University. Clarke worked first at the Stamford House Remand Home in London. In 1985 he became community care advisor for the Spastics Society (now named Scope). - Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu
Patrick Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu was born in the Northern Region’s capital of Kaduna to Igbo immigrant parents from the Mid-Western Region. He was an infantry and intelligence officer of the Nigerian Army. Such was his family’s affinity to the city of Nzeogwu’s birth that they and his military colleagues called him “Kaduna”. Nzeogwu was a devout Roman Catholic and a teetotaler. - George Arthur French
Sir George Arthur French, KCMG (19 June 1841 - 7 July 1921) served as the second Commissioner of the North West Mounted Police, from October 18, 1873, to July 21, 1876. George Arthur French was born at Roscommon, Ireland. He was educated at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and Woolwich and commissioned in the Royal Artillery in 1860. In 1871, at the request of the Canadian government, he was sent to Canada as a military inspector, …
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