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Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, was the navigator of the first successful non-stop transatlantic flight.

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Dominic Bruce, was a British Royal Air Force officer, known as the "Medium Sized Man." He has been described as "the most ingenious escaper" of the Second World War. He made seventeen attempts at escaping from POW camps, including several attempts to escape from Colditz Castle, a castle that housed prisoners of war "deemed incorrigible".

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Captain James Cook was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy, famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to Australia in particular. He made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.

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Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Henry Dacres Cunningham was a Royal Navy officer. A qualified senior navigator, he became Director of Plans at the Admiralty in 1930. He saw action as Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet during the Second World War with responsibility for the allied landings at Anzio and in the south of France. He served as First Sea Lord in the late 1940s: his focus was on implementing the Government's policy of scrapping many serviceable ships.

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Thomas Forrest was a Scottish navigator who worked for the British East India Company.

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Captain Tobias Furneaux was an English navigator and Royal Navy officer, who accompanied James Cook on his second voyage of exploration. He was one of the first men to circumnavigate the world in both directions, and later commanded a British vessel during the American Revolutionary War.

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Thomas John Jones was a Welsh officer in the British Merchant Navy from 1893 to, at the least, 1913. Much of his naval career involved the foreign-going steamship, the SS Knight Errant, where he served as an officer.

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Flight Lieutenant John Alan Quinton, GC, DFC was a British navigator and pilot who was posthumously awarded the George Cross for an act of outstanding bravery where he unselfishly saved a young air cadet whilst losing his own life after the aircraft he was in was involved in a mid-air collision over Yorkshire.

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Riley Anthony Winton Rudd was an English stockbroker who found success in the world of technology start-ups, but came under censure from the Department of Trade and Industry for his business practices. Among his children were the politician Amber Rudd and the public relations executive Roland Rudd.

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Wing Commander Rex Southern Sanders was a Royal Air Force navigator who won a DFC for his service during the Second World War and an AFC for his part in secret photographic and radar reconnaissance missions behind Soviet lines in the 1950s during the Cold War.

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Kenneth Tempest, was a Royal Air Force navigator with No. 139 Squadron RAF during the Second World War flying Mosquitos. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for his service. After the war he trained as a pilot and flew with BOAC in the Bristol Britannia and the VC10.