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Adrian Carton de Wiart
Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart (1880–1963), Belgian-born British Army general and Victoria Cross recipient at La Boiselle 1916; fought the Boer War and both World Wars, wounded 11 times, lost an eye and a hand, escaped a POW camp, and wrote Happy Odyssey.
Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke
Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1883–1963), British field marshal and Chief of the Imperial General Staff 1941–46, Churchill's principal military adviser in World War II; shaped Allied strategy, delayed D-Day until 1944, and left famous wartime diaries.
Alan Cunningham
Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham (1887-1983), British general; conquered Italian East Africa in 1941, briefly commanded the Eighth Army during Operation Crusader, and was the last High Commissioner for Palestine, 1945-1948.
Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick
Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick (c.1528/1530–1590), Tudor nobleman, son of the Duke of Northumberland and brother of the Earl of Leicester; Master of the Ordnance, commander at Newhaven 1562–63, lieutenant against the 1569 Northern Rebellion, died childless after a leg amputation.
Andrew Parker Bowles
Andrew Parker Bowles (born 27 December 1939) is a retired British Army brigadier of the Household Cavalry and first husband of Queen Camilla; commanded the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment during the 1982 Hyde Park bombing.
Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell
Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883–1950), British field marshal and Viceroy of India: victor over the Italians in North and East Africa 1940–41 (130,000 prisoners), later ABDA commander, and author of Generals and Generalship and Other Men's Flowers.
Arthur Percival
Arthur Ernest Percival (1887–1966), British Army lieutenant-general and General Officer Commanding Malaya, surrendered Singapore with over 85,000 troops to Yamashita on 15 February 1942; later historians treat him partly as a scapegoat.
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, was an Anglo-Irish army officer and Tory statesman who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815 and served as prime minister from 1828 to 1830.
Banastre Tarleton
Banastre Tarleton (1754-1833), British cavalry commander of the Loyalist British Legion in the American Revolution's southern campaign; nicknamed "Bloody Ban" after the Waxhaws, defeated at Cowpens, later MP and author.
Benjamin Guinness II
Benjamin Guinness II, also known as Benjamin Lee Guinness, was an Irish-born British Army captain in the Royal Horse Guards, second son of the Dublin brewer Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness.
Bernard Montgomery
Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887-1976), British field marshal; Eighth Army commander at El Alamein 1942, Allied ground forces commander in Normandy 1944, and NATO's first DSACEUR 1951-1958.
Bill Stirling (British Army officer)
Bill Stirling, elder brother of SAS founder David Stirling, was a Scottish SOE officer who helped conceive the Special Air Service, raised 2 SAS in Algeria, and left its command in June 1944 in a dispute over the unit's use after D-Day.
Breaker Morant
Breaker Morant (Harry Harbord Morant, born Edwin Henry Murrant, 1864-1902), Australian drover, Bulletin balladist, and Bushveldt Carbineers lieutenant executed by firing squad on 27 February 1902 for murdering Boer prisoners in the Boer War.
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (1738–1805), British general and statesman; surrendered at Yorktown 1781, Governor-General of India 1786–1793 (Permanent Settlement, Third Mysore War), Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1798–1801, died at Ghazipur in 1805.
Charles George Gordon
Charles George Gordon (1833-1885), 'Chinese Gordon', British Royal Engineers officer who led the Ever Victorious Army against the Taiping Rebellion, governed the Sudan for Egypt, and died at the fall of Khartoum in January 1885.
Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey
Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey (1729–1807) was a British Army general nicknamed "No-flint Grey" who captured Martinique and other French West India islands in 1794.
Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank
Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank (1938-2025), Field Marshal and Blair-era Chief of the Defence Staff 1997-2001, known as 'Tony's General'; Welsh Guards and SAS officer, later crossbench peer and critic of defence underfunding.
Charles James Napier
Sir Charles James Napier (1782–1853), British general, conqueror and first governor of Sind after Miani and Hyderabad (1843); also Cephalonia resident, Chartist-era commander, and Indian commander-in-chief; not Admiral Sir Charles Napier.
Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry
Charles William Stewart, later Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (1778–1854): Anglo-Irish soldier, diplomat and coal owner; half-brother and client of Castlereagh, Peninsular adjutant general under Wellington, envoy to Prussia and ambassador to Vienna.
Claude Auchinleck
Claude Auchinleck (1884–1981), British field marshal nicknamed the Auk, commanded Middle East Forces 1941–42, defeated Rommel at Operation Crusader and First El Alamein, then led the Indian Army through Burma support and the 1947 partition.
David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark
David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark (1601–1682), Scottish Covenanter general; cavalry colonel under Gustavus Adolphus, victor of Philiphaugh 1645, commander defeated at Dunbar 1650, captured at Worcester, ennobled 1661.
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby
Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe (1861–1936), British field marshal known as 'the Bull'; EEF commander who took Beersheba, Jerusalem and won Megiddo (76,000 prisoners), then High Commissioner for Egypt 1919–1925.
Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside
Field Marshal William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880–1959), British Army officer, Royal Artillery, Chief of the Imperial General Staff 1939–40, Archangel commander, Persia 1920–21, C-in-C Home Forces 1940.
Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford
Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, was a British Army general who led the 1879 invasion of Zululand, suffering defeat at Isandlwana before winning at Ulundi.
Frederick Browning
Sir Frederick "Boy" Browning (1896-1965), British lieutenant-general, Grenadier Guards DSO winner, husband of Daphne du Maurier, builder of Britain's airborne forces and corps commander at Operation Market Garden.
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832–1914), 'Bobs', British field marshal; Victoria Cross winner in the Indian Mutiny, victor of Kandahar 1880, commander in the Boer War, and last Commander-in-Chief of the British Army.
Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley
Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1833-1913), Anglo-Irish field-marshal of Red River, Ashanti, Tel-el-Kebir, and Gordon relief fame; also the reformer behind the modern British Army and the phrase 'All Sir Garnet.'
Geoffrey Cardozo
Geoffrey Cardozo is a retired British Army colonel of the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards who organized the burial of Argentine war dead after the 1982 Falklands War.
Gerald Templer
Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer (1898–1979) was a British Army officer who led the campaign against the Malayan Emergency from 1952 and coined "hearts and minds".
Gordon Bennett (general)
Henry Gordon Bennett (1887–1962), Australian lieutenant general, commanded the 8th Division in Malaya and escaped Singapore after the 15 February 1942 surrender; postwar enquiries found the escape unjustified, ending his career.