31 Royal Navy personnel of the Iraq War

Vice Admiral Paul Martin Bennett, is a senior Royal Navy officer and currently serves as Chief of Staff of NATO Allied Command Transformation.

Vice Admiral Keith Edward Blount, is a senior Royal Navy officer and pilot. He was Assistant Chief of Naval Staff and head of the Fleet Air Arm from 2015 to 2019. He serves as Commander Allied Maritime Command, NATO, since May 2019.

Rear Admiral Alexander J. Burton is a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander United Kingdom Maritime Forces and Rear Admiral Surface Ships.

Lieutenant General Sir David Andrew Capewell, is a retired Royal Marines officer who served as Chief of Joint Operations from 2011 to 2015.

Rear Admiral John Robert Hamilton Clink, is a former Royal Navy officer who retired from the Royal Navy in 2018.

Rear Admiral Martin John Connell, is a senior Royal Navy officer currently serving as Assistant Chief of Naval Staff and as Rear Admiral Fleet Air Arm and Director Force Generation.

Brigadier Mark William Dunham is a retired Royal Marines officer who served as the Deputy Commandant General. He was born in Lincolnshire in 1961.

Lieutenant General Sir James Benjamin "Jim" Dutton, is a retired Royal Marines officer and former Governor of Gibraltar. He held various staff positions in his early career, before commanding 40 Commando. As a brigadier, he held two high-level staff posts—the first at the Ministry of Defence in London, as Director of NATO policy, and the second as a British liaison to The Pentagon shortly after the September 11 attacks, where he was involved in the planning for the subsequent invasion of Afghanistan. A newspaper later pinpointed this as the moment when Dutton's career "took off".

Lieutenant General Sir Robert Alan Fry, served as a Royal Marine for over 30 years and was involved in military operations in Northern Ireland, the Gulf, Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan. After retirement from military service he went into private business and, in 2007, became CEO of Hewlett Packard's defence and security business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In 2010 he was appointed chairman of McKinney Rogers International and subsequently, in 2011, Albany Associates.

Rear Admiral Philip John Hally, is a Royal Navy officer who serves as Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff, People Transformation.

Vice Admiral Nicholas William Hine, is a Royal Navy officer. Since 2019, he has served as Second Sea Lord.

Rear Admiral Christopher John Hockley, is a retired Royal Navy officer who was Flag Officer Scotland, Northern England and Northern Ireland from September 2011 to November 2014.

Major General Francis Hedley Roberton "Buster" Howes, is a former Royal Marines officer who was Commandant General Royal Marines from February 2010 to December 2011.

Vice Admiral Sir Adrian James Johns, is a former senior officer in the Royal Navy, serving as Second Sea Lord between 2005 and 2008. He was the Governor of Gibraltar between 2009 and 2013.

Vice Admiral Sir Clive Charles Carruthers Johnstone, is a retired Royal Navy officer who served as Commander, Allied Maritime Command from 2015 to 2019.

Vice Admiral Sir Benjamin John Key, is a senior Royal Navy officer. He has commanded HM Ships Sandown, Iron Duke and Lancaster, and deployed on operations to Kosovo and Iraq. He was appointed Fleet Commander in 2016, Chief of Joint Operations in 2019, and is to become First Sea Lord in late 2021.

Lieutenant General Robert Andrew Magowan, is a senior Royal Marines officer who currently serves as both Deputy Commander of Strategic Command, and Commandant General Royal Marines.

Vice Admiral Sir Alan Michael Massey, KCB, CBE is a former senior officer in the Royal Navy who served as the Second Sea Lord.

General Sir Gordon Kenneth Messenger, is a retired senior Royal Marines officer who served as Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff from May 2016 to May 2019. As a colonel he commanded 40 Commando during the Iraq War, and led the Commando in the assault on the Al-Faw Peninsula. He served as British Commander of Task Force Helmand, during the 3 Commando Brigade deployment to Helmand Province, Afghanistan on Operation Herrick IX from 2008 to 2009.

Andrew William Murrison is a British doctor, naval officer and politician. After serving as the Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Westbury from 2001 to 2010, at the 2010 general election he was elected for the new seat of South West Wiltshire covering much of the same area, including the towns of Trowbridge, Warminster and Westbury.

Rear Admiral Jonathan Patrick Pentreath, is a retired senior officer of the Royal Navy. He commanded 845 Naval Air Squadron from 2001 to 2003, including during the Battle of Al Faw in the Iraq War, and later commanded Commando Helicopter Force (2009–11) and Royal Naval Air Station, Yeovilton (2015–17). He was Commander Joint Helicopter Command from April 2017 until March 2020 when he retired from the Royal Navy.

Vice Admiral Duncan Laurence Potts, is a retired senior Royal Navy officer. He served as Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Capability) and Controller of the Navy from 2013 to 2014, and as Director General of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom from September 2014 to 2018.

Admiral Sir Antony David Radakin, is a senior Royal Navy officer. He has served as First Sea Lord, the professional head of the Naval Service, since June 2019. He was Chief of Staff, Joint Forces Command, from 2016 to 2018, and the Second Sea Lord and Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff from 2018 to 2019. He will become Chief of the Defence Staff on 30 November 2021.

Major General Garry Stuart Robison, is a retired Royal Marines officer who served as Commandant-General Royal Marines and Commander United Kingdom Amphibious Forces from 2006 to 2009.

Major General Andrew Salmon, is a retired Royal Marines officer who served as Commandant General Royal Marines from 2009 to 2010.

Major General Martin Linn Smith, is a former senior Royal Marines officer who served as Commandant General Royal Marines from 2014 to 2016. He was previously commander of 3 Commando Brigade, and before that Commanding Officer of 30 Commando Information Exploitation Group and Deputy Commander of 3 Commando Brigade. Smith is currently a non-executive adviser of Texo Group.

Major General Charles Richard Stickland, is a senior Royal Marines officer who served as Commandant General Royal Marines from January 2018 until June 2019.

Surgeon Vice-Admiral Alasdair James Walker, was a British medical doctor and senior Royal Navy officer. He served as Surgeon-General of the British Armed Forces.

Rear Admiral John Stuart Weale, is a former Royal Navy officer who served as Flag Officer Scotland and Northern Ireland, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff Submarines and Rear Admiral Submarines.

Sarah West is a retired Royal Navy officer, the first woman to be appointed to command a major warship in the Royal Navy.

Admiral Sir George Michael Zambellas, is a retired Royal Navy officer. He was the First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from April 2013 until he handed over duties to Admiral Sir Philip Jones in April 2016.