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Nick Cowley
Nick Cowley (Nicholas David Guise Cowley, born 1978) is a British Army major general, GOC Army Individual Training Command and Commandant RMAS; ex-Queen's Royal Hussars and 16 Air Assault Brigade commander, OBE, founder of The Talent Tap.
Orde Wingate
Orde Charles Wingate (1903–1944), British major general and DSO with two bars, founded the Special Night Squads in Palestine, led Gideon Force in Ethiopia, and commanded the Chindits in Burma, dying in a B-25 crash on 24 March 1944.
Paddy Mayne
Robert Blair 'Paddy' Mayne (1915–1955) was a Northern Irish rugby international and solicitor who became a founding SAS officer, destroyed over 100 aircraft in North Africa, commanded 1 SAS from 1943, won the DSO with three bars, and was controversially denied the Victoria Cross.
Patrick Ferguson
Patrick Ferguson (1744-1780), Scottish British Army officer, inventor of the Ferguson breech-loading rifle patented 1776, and Loyalist commander killed by Overmountain Men at Kings Mountain, 7 October 1780.
Peregrine Maitland
Sir Peregrine Maitland (1777–1854), British general and colonial governor. Commander of the 1st Brigade of Guards at Waterloo; lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada 1818–1828 and Nova Scotia 1828–1834; Cape governor 1844–1847.
Peter Blunt
Major-General Peter John Blunt (1923–2003) was a British Army officer and businessman who served as Transport Officer-in-Chief and won the George Medal for a 1959 tanker rescue in Germany.
Peter Cosgrove
Sir Peter Cosgrove (born 1947, Sydney) is a retired Australian Army general, Military Cross recipient from Vietnam, INTERFET commander in East Timor 1999–2000, Chief of the Defence Force 2002–2005, Australian of the Year 2001, and Australia's 26th Governor-General 2014–2019.
Peter Inge, Baron Inge
Peter Inge, Baron Inge (1935-2022), British Army field marshal; last Chief of the Defence Staff appointed at five-star rank, Chief of the General Staff 1992, life peer 2001, Butler Inquiry member.
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850–1942), third son of Queen Victoria, British field marshal, and first royal Governor General of Canada (1911–1916), veteran of Egypt 1882 and India.
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany
Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (Frederick Augustus, 1763–1827), second son of George III, commanded the 1793–95 Flanders campaign and reformed the British Army as Commander-in-Chief until the 1809 Mary Anne Clarke promotion scandal; distinct from the later Dukes of York.
Prince George, Duke of Cambridge
Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (1819-1904), cousin of Queen Victoria, commanded the British Army as Commander-in-Chief for 39 years (1856-1895), opposed Cardwell's reforms, and was succeeded by Lord Wolseley.
Prince Rupert of the Rhine
Prince Rupert of the Rhine (Ruprecht, 1619–1682), Count Palatine and Duke of Bavaria, nephew of Charles I, commanded Royalist cavalry in the English Civil War (Powick Bridge, Edgehill, Marston Moor, Naseby), later an admiral, Royal Society founder, mezzotint pioneer, and Hudson's Bay Company governor.
Prince William, Duke of Cumberland
Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1721-1765), second surviving son of George II, British captain-general who crushed the Jacobites at Culloden in 1746, earning the nickname 'the Butcher', and briefly brokered the 1765 Rockingham ministry.
Ralph Abercromby
Sir Ralph Abercromby (1734–1801), British lieutenant-general of the French Revolutionary Wars, led the West Indies, Ireland, Helder, and Egyptian campaigns; mortally wounded at Alexandria, 21 March 1801.
Ramji Sakpal
Ramji Maloji Sakpal (Ramnak Malnak in army records), Mahar soldier and regimental school headmaster in the Bombay Army, retired as subhedar in 1893, and father of B. R. Ambedkar.
Reginald Dyer
Reginald Dyer (1864–1927), British Indian Army brigadier-general, ordered the 13 April 1919 Jallianwala Bagh (Amritsar) massacre, firing 1,650 rounds without warning; censured by the Commons in 1920 and forced to retire.
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857–1941), British Army officer and founder of the Scout Movement; defended Mafeking for 217 days, ran the 1907 Brownsea Island camp, and wrote Scouting for Boys (1908).
Robert Clive
Robert Clive, Baron Clive of Plassey (1725-1774), "Clive of India", East India Company officer and Governor of Bengal; victor of Plassey 1757, obtained the diwani in 1765, died after parliamentary inquiry, probably by suicide.
Robert Rogers (British Army officer)
Robert Rogers (1731–1795) was a colonial American British Army officer who raised and led Rogers' Rangers in the French and Indian War and wrote the 28 Rules of Ranging, still issued to U.S. Army Rangers.
Robert Venables
Robert Venables (1612/13 – July 1687) was an English Parliamentarian soldier and general of the land forces in Cromwell's Western Design of 1654–1655, which failed to take Hispaniola but captured Jamaica.
Roméo Dallaire
Roméo Dallaire (born 1946), retired Canadian lieutenant-general and senator, commanded UNAMIR in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide; later author, PTSD advocate, and founder of the Dallaire Institute against child soldiers.
Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill
Rowland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, known as "Daddy Hill," was a British general, a trusted commander under Wellington in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo.
Samuel Gibbs
Sir Samuel Gibbs (1770-1815) was an English British Army major-general who served in Corsica, Ostend, the West Indies, Cape of Good Hope, Travancore, and Java, then died of wounds leading a column at the Battle of New Orleans on 8 January 1815.
Simon Hamilton (British Army officer)
Lieutenant General Sir Simon Peter Hamilton, KBE, is a British Army officer and Deputy Chief of the General Staff since April 2026, formerly interim CEO and Director General Land at Defence Equipment & Support.
Straubenzee family
Van Straubenzee family, Dutch-origin British family founded by Philip William Casimir van Straubenzee (c.1745); produced generals including Sir Charles Thomas van Straubenzee and politician Sir William van Straubenzee, MP for Wokingham.
Thomas Gage
Thomas Gage (1719/1720–1787), British general, commander-in-chief in North America 1763–1775 and royal governor of Massachusetts 1774–1775; ordered the Concord expedition and the costly Battle of Bunker Hill.
Thomas Picton
Sir Thomas Picton (1758–1815) was a Welsh soldier and first British governor of Trinidad, convicted of torture in 1806 and killed at Waterloo in 1815.
Tim Collins (British Army officer)
Tim Collins OBE, Belfast-born retired British Army colonel who commanded the 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment in Iraq in 2003; famous for the eve-of-battle speech reportedly hung in the Oval Office, cleared of war-crimes allegations, later co-founded defence contractor New Century.
Tom Bewick
Tom Bewick is a British Army Major General and skills policy specialist. He served in Afghanistan on Operation HERRICK and currently commands British Forces in Cyprus.
William Birdwood
Field Marshal William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood of Anzac and Totnes (1865-1951), British Indian Army general who commanded the ANZAC Corps at Gallipoli, led the AIF on the Western Front, and became Commander-in-Chief, India.