Cheltenham College is a public school in Cheltenham,Gloucestershire,England. The school opened in 1841 as a Church of England foundation and is known for its outstanding classical,military,and sporting traditions.
Lieutenant Colonel Wilfrith Elstob 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 Sir Percival Scrope Marling,3rd Baronet,VC,CB,DL was an English British Army officer and 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.
Lieutenant Frederic Brooks Dugdale VC was an English British Army officer and 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 Cabourn Hartley,known as Jock Hartley,was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
Colonel Alfred Digby Legard,CBE was an English Army officer and amateur first-class cricketer,who appeared in two matches for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC),and another four for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1904 and 1910.
Thomas Winter Sheppard was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
Lieutenant-Colonel Godfrey Christopher Firbank MC was an English cricketer. A left-arm orthodox spin bowler,he played first-class cricket for the Army and for the Combined Services in addition to international matches for Egypt.
Brigadier Robert George William Melsome MBE was a senior British Army officer and English cricketer. He saw active service during the Second World War,but spent much of the war as a prisoner of war in Germany.
Nesbit Willoughby Wallace was a Canadian officer and first-class cricketer. Wallace was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm slow underarm.
Colonel Arthur John Hamilton Luard,DSO was an English first-class cricketer. Luard was a right-handed batsman and an officer in the British Army.
Brigadier Adrian William Bay Becher was a British Army officer and first-class cricketer. Born in Gloucestershire he was educated at Repton School before entering the Royal Military College,Sandhurst. Becher was commissioned into the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (KOYLI) in the early months of the First World War. After serving as an aide-de-camp he was promoted to the acting rank of captain and command of a company. He received the Military Cross on 16 August 1917 for his actions in leading his company in an assault on an enemy position. He received a bar to this medal on 19 November 1917 for holding a position with his company whilst a new trenchline was dug. In 1918 Becher served briefly as an observer officer with the newly founded Royal Air Force.
Raymond Wodehouse Fox was a British Army officer and cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Oxford University from 1896 to 1898,for Sussex from 1896 to 1900,and occasional matches thereafter.
Major Arthur Houssemayne du Boulay was a British military officer and amateur cricketer. Born in Kent,he served in the Royal Engineers from 1897 and saw active service in the Second Boer War and First World War. He played first-class cricket for Kent County Cricket Club and Gloucestershire County Cricket Club and died in the 1918 flu pandemic whilst on active service in October 1918.
Lieutenant-Colonel Ferdinando Wallis Bennet was an English soldier who played in four first-class cricket matches between 1874 and 1878.
Lord Henry Francis Montagu-Douglas Scott was a Scottish first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
William Drysdale was a Scottish first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
George Henry Neale was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
Charles Deans Barrow was an English first-class cricketer,British Army officer and landowner.
Charles Napier Miles was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
