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Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis
Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891–1969), British field marshal; commanded the Dunkirk rearguard, North Africa, Sicily and Italy, was last British Governor General of Canada 1946–52 and Minister of Defence 1952–54.
Hector Munro, 8th Laird of Novar
Hector Munro, 8th Laird of Novar (1726-1805), Scottish general and MP who commanded the East India Company army at the Battle of Buxar in 1764, later led the Madras army, and spent about £120,000 improving the Novar estate in Ross-shire.
Henry Hozier
Sir Henry Montague Hozier (1838–1907), British colonel, Times war correspondent, military author (The Seven Weeks' War, The Russo-Turkish War), Secretary of Lloyd's 1874–1890, and father of Clementine Churchill.
Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson
Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson (1864-1925), British general, son of the Assyriologist H. C. Rawlinson; commanded IV Corps at Ypres and Neuve Chapelle, the Fourth Army on the Somme 1916 and at Amiens 1918, then British forces in India until his death.
Henry Worsley (explorer)
Henry Worsley (1960–2016), British Army lieutenant colonel and polar explorer, distantly related to Frank Worsley; died of peritonitis 30 miles short of completing the first solo, unsupported, unassisted crossing of Antarctica.
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916), British field marshal who conquered the Sudan at Omdurman in 1898, commanded in the Boer War and India, and as Secretary of State for War raised the New Armies of 1914 before drowning on HMS Hampshire.
Hubert Gough
General Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough (1870-1963), British cavalry officer and Fifth Army commander in the First World War; central figure of the 1914 Curragh incident, led early Passchendaele, dismissed after the March 1918 German offensive.
Isaac Brock
Sir Isaac Brock was a British major-general born in Guernsey who commanded Upper Canada's forces, captured Detroit in August 1812, and was killed at Queenston Heights eight weeks later.
J. H. Morgan
J. H. Morgan (John Hartman Morgan, 1876–1955) was a British brigadier-general and barrister who investigated German atrocities in 1914 and advised the Nuremberg war crimes commission.
James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan
James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797-1868), British lieutenant-general, colonel of the 11th Hussars, commander of the Light Brigade at Balaclava 1854; also tried by the House of Lords over the 1840 Black Bottle duel.
James Wolfe
James Wolfe (1727-1759), British major-general, commanded the 1759 Quebec expedition and died at the Plains of Abraham after defeating Montcalm, securing the fall of New France and posthumous fame as Britain's heroic martyr of Quebec.
Jan Smuts
Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870–1950), South African statesman, soldier, and philosopher; twice prime minister (1919–24, 1939–48), founder-figure of the League of Nations, Commonwealth, and United Nations, and author of the holism philosophy.
Jez Bennett
Jez Bennett is a British Army Royal Artillery lieutenant general, Deputy Commander and from 2026 acting commander of NATO's Allied Land Command in İzmir, former ARRC Chief of Staff, Director Capability, CB and CBE.
Jock Lewes
Jock Lewes (John Steel Lewes, 1913-1941), British Army officer and co-founder of the SAS with David Stirling; its first training officer at Kabrit, inventor of the Lewes Bomb, killed in Libya 30 December 1941.
John Burgoyne
John Burgoyne, nicknamed "Gentleman Johnny," was a British general, politician, and playwright whose 1777 surrender at Saratoga helped bring France into the American Revolutionary War.
John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun
John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun (1705–1782), Scottish soldier and peer; raised Highlanders in the 1745 rising and was British commander-in-chief in North America 1756–1757, recalled after the failed Louisbourg expedition.
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough (1650–1722), English general and Captain-General of allied forces in the War of the Spanish Succession; victor of Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenaarde, and Malplaquet; ancestor of the Spencer-Churchill dukes.
John French, 1st Earl of Ypres
John French, 1st Earl of Ypres (John Denton Pinkstone French, 1852–1925), British field marshal who commanded the British Expeditionary Force 1914–15, resigned after Loos, and served as last Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1918–21, surviving an IRA ambush.
John Frost (British Army officer)
Major-General John Dutton Frost (1912-1993), British airborne officer of the Cameronians and Parachute Regiment, led the Bruneval Raid and 2nd Parachute Battalion at Arnhem; the Arnhem bridge was renamed John Frost Bridge.
John Henry Patterson (author)
John Henry Patterson (1867–1947), Anglo-Irish soldier, hunter, author, and Zionist, wrote The Man-Eaters of Tsavo (1907) about the lions he killed in 1898, and commanded the Zion Mule Corps and Jewish Legion.
John Hunt, Baron Hunt
John Hunt, Baron Hunt (Henry Cecil John Hunt, 1910–1998), British Army officer and mountaineer who led the 1953 British Everest expedition; first DofE Award director; life peer 1966.
John Stanley (British Army officer)
Captain John Stanley (1750–1783) was a British Army officer who served as aide-de-camp to General John Burgoyne and was wounded and captured at Freeman's Farm in 1777.
John Swinton of Kimmerghame
Major-General Sir John Swinton of Kimmerghame was a British Army officer who commanded the Household Division and London District from 1976 to 1979, and the father of actress Tilda Swinton.
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886-1946), British field marshal nicknamed Tiger, Victoria Cross winner at Canal du Nord, commanded the BEF in 1939-1940 and ordered the Dunkirk withdrawal, later Governor of Gibraltar and Malta.
Johnny Cooper (British Army officer)
Johnny Cooper (John Murdoch Cooper, 6 June 1922 – 12 July 2002), British Army officer and founding member of the Special Air Service, one of 'The Originals'; DCM 1942, escaped after Stirling's 1943 capture, served Malaya, Jebel Akhdar, and Oman's Muscat Regiment.
Louis Botha
Louis Botha (1862–1919), Boer general and statesman; victor of Colenso, signatory of Vereeniging, first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa 1910–1919, suppressor of the 1914 rebellion, conqueror of German South-West Africa.
Mark Carleton-Smith
Mark Carleton-Smith (born 1964) is a retired British Army general, Chief of the General Staff 2018–2022, former Director Special Forces and 22 SAS commander, later Senior Advisor to CT Group and director of SafeLane Global.
Michael Wright (Canadian Army officer)
Lieutenant-General Michael Charles Wright, CMM, MMV, MSM and Bar, CD, Canadian Army officer and Commander of the Canadian Army since 12 July 2024; former commander of CFINTCOM and Chief of Defence Intelligence; announced the 2026 Manoeuvre Division transformation plan.
Mike Jackson (British Army officer)
General Sir Mike Jackson (Michael David Jackson, 1944-2024), 'Jacko', British Army officer; KFOR commander who refused Wesley Clark's order at Pristina airport in 1999, and Chief of the General Staff 2003-2006 during the Iraq invasion.
Nick Carter (British Army officer)
General Sir Nick Carter (Nicholas Patrick Carter) is a retired British Army officer who led the Army 2020 restructuring, served as Chief of the General Staff 2014 to 2018, and was Chief of the Defence Staff from June 2018 to November 2021.