27 English military personnel stubs

Sqn Ldr Anthony Richard Henry Barton was an English Royal Air Force officer who played an important part in the Battle of Britain and in the defence of Malta during the siege by the Axis powers in the Second World War.

Major Thomas Arthur Bird DSO, MC & Bar was a distinguished British soldier and architect whose inspirational command of the anti-tank company of 2nd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, at Outpost Snipe during the Second Battle of El Alamein helped destroy the armoured counter-attack of General Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps. He later became a noted architect working in collaboration with Richard Tyler from 1955–85.

Edwyn Sherard Burnaby was a major-general and Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicestershire North from 1880 until his death. He served in the Crimean War.

John Henry Carless was a British recipient of the Victoria Cross during the First World War.

Diana Spencer-Churchill was the eldest daughter of British statesman Sir Winston Churchill and Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill.

John Coleman VC 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 a native of Norwich.

Sir Thomas Dagworth was an English knight and soldier, who led English armies in Brittany during the Hundred Years' War.

Robert James Elliott, was an English naval officer, Captain in the Royal Navy, and known as a topographical draughtsman from 1822 to 1824.

Lewis Lawrence Golden OBE was a British accountant, war veteran, and a founder of Everest Home Improvement. He was present at the Battle of Arnhem in 1944.

Lt. Col. Gideon Gorrequer KH was an Anglo-French soldier who is best known for serving as the aide-de-camp and acting military secretary to Sir Hudson Lowe during the exile of Napoleon upon St. Helena, and the diary that he kept whilst in this position.

John William Harper VC 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.

Colonel John Oliver Brook Hitch was an English architect and a British Army officer who was awarded the Military Cross.

Sir Otho Holand was an English soldier and a founder Knight of the Garter. He was alternatively called Otes or Eton Holand or Holland.

Major-General Gwyn Jenkins is a Royal Marines officer.

Sir Joseph Jordan was a naval officer and admiral. From a Thames shipowning family, he is initially recorded as importing tobacco from Nevis and Barbados aboard the Amity.

Cornet George Joyce was a low ranking officer in the Parliamentary New Model Army during the English Civil War.

Leonard James Keyworth VC 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.

James Kirk VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy.

Henry Langtry (1841–1912) was an Irish-born war hero of English descent who served as a lieutenant with the 3rd Dragoon Guards in the Abyssinian campaign in 1868 and was present at the storming and capture of Magdala. By 1883 he was commanding officer of the 8th Hussars and became Brevet Colonel in 1885.

Sir John Lawson was an English naval officer and republican.

Admiral Sir Raymond Derek Lygo, was a Royal Navy officer who served as Vice Chief of the Naval Staff from 1975 to 1978.

Commander Herbert Roff Newton OBE DL JP (1900-1973), was a senior officer in the Royal Navy, a Deputy Lieutenant for Bedfordshire and for many years a Justice of the Peace.

Thomas Skinner, was a British soldier and author. He commanded the 31st Foot in the First Anglo-Afghan War in 1842 and 1843. While there he was made a C.B. and brevet lieutenant-colonel. In 1832 he had published Excursions in India and four years later Adventures during a Journey Overland to India.

Edmund Soame was an English soldier and politician. He served in the English Army where he attained the rank of colonel, and was member of Parliament for Thetford from 1701 to 1705.

Sir Thomas Tyldesley was a supporter of Charles I and a Royalist commander during the English Civil War.

Sir Dick Goldsmith White, was a British intelligence officer. He was Director General (DG) of MI5 from 1953 to 1956, and Head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1956 to 1968.

Charles Worsley was an English soldier and politician. He was an ardent supporter of Oliver Cromwell and was an officer in the Parliamentary army during the English Civil War and the Commonwealth of England. He sat in the House of Commons in 1654 and governed a district during the Rule of the Major-Generals.