Sir Ian David Macfadyen,is a senior Royal Air Force officer,a former Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man (2000–05) and Constable and Governor of Windsor Castle (2009–14).
General Sir Phillip Harvey Bennett,was a senior officer of the Australian Army who served as Chief of the Australian Defence Force from 1984 to 1987,and later as Governor of Tasmania from 1987 to 1995.
Lieutenant General Sir Robert Alan Fry,served as a Royal Marine for over 30 years and was involved in military operations in Northern Ireland,the Gulf,Kosovo,Iraq and Afghanistan. After retirement from military service he went into private business and,in 2007,became CEO of Hewlett Packard's defence and security business in Europe,the Middle East and Africa. In 2010 he was appointed chairman of McKinney Rogers International and subsequently,in 2011,Albany Associates.
Lieutenant General Sir Andrew Peter Ridgway,is a former British Army officer and Lieutenant Governor of Jersey. He was appointed to the latter role for a 5-year term on 14 June 2006 after a long military career.
General Sir Francis George Hassett was an Australian general who rose to the position of Chief of the Defence Force Staff,the professional head of the Australian Defence Force,serving in this capacity from November 1975 until April 1977. Hassett joined the Australian Army in 1935 upon gaining entrance into the Royal Military College,Duntroon. Serving with distinction in the early stages of the Second World War,he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1942 at the age of 23,and posted as a staff officer for the remainder of the war.
Vice Admiral Sir Adrian James Johns,is a former senior officer in the Royal Navy,serving as Second Sea Lord between 2005 and 2008. He was the Governor of Gibraltar between 2009 and 2013.
Major General Sir John Jeremy Moore,was a British senior Royal Marine officer who served as the commander of the British land forces during the Falklands War in 1982. Moore received the surrender of the Argentine forces on the islands.
General Sir William Godfrey Fothergill Jackson,was a British Army officer,military historian,author and Governor of Gibraltar.
Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope,is a retired Royal Navy officer. After serving as a submarine commander,he commanded a frigate and then commanded an aircraft carrier on operational patrol off Sierra Leone. He went on to be Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Transformation and then Commander-in-Chief Fleet. He served as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval staff,the professional head of the Royal Navy,from July 2009 to April 2013. In this role he advised the British Government on the deployment of naval forces during operations around Libya. He was succeeded by Admiral Sir George Zambellas in April 2013.
General Sir Gordon Kenneth Messenger,is a retired senior Royal Marines officer who served as Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff from May 2016 to May 2019. As a colonel he commanded 40 Commando during the Iraq War,and led the Commando in the assault on the Al-Faw Peninsula. He served as British Commander of Task Force Helmand,during the 3 Commando Brigade deployment to Helmand Province,Afghanistan on Operation Herrick IX from 2008 to 2009. After his retirement,Messenger has held ceremonial positions,including Lord High Steward at the coronation of King Charles III in 2023.
Admiral Sir Trevor Alan Soar,is a retired Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief Fleet from 2009 to 2012.
Lieutenant General Sir Gary Robert Coward,is a retired senior British Army officer,who served as Chief of Materiél (Land) and Quartermaster-General to the Forces from September 2009 until his retirement in May 2012.
Vice Admiral Sir David George Steel,is a retired senior Royal Navy officer who served as Second Sea Lord between 2012 and 2015. He assumed the office of Governor of Gibraltar on 11 June 2020.
Lieutenant General Sir James Benjamin "Jim" Dutton,is a retired Royal Marines officer and former Governor of Gibraltar. He held various staff positions in his early career,before commanding 40 Commando. As a brigadier,he held two high-level staff posts—the first at the Ministry of Defence in London,as Director of NATO policy,and the second as a British liaison to The Pentagon shortly after the September 11 attacks,where he was involved in the planning for the subsequent invasion of Afghanistan.
Lieutenant General Edward Grant Martin Davis,is a former senior Royal Marines officer. He was Commandant General Royal Marines from December 2011 to June 2014,and the Deputy Commander of NATO's Allied Land Command in Izmir,Turkey,from 2014 to 2015. He was Governor of Gibraltar from 2016 to 2020.
General Sir Campbell Richard Hardy,was a Royal Marines officer who served as Commandant General Royal Marines from 1955 to 1959.
Lieutenant General Sir David Andrew Capewell,is a retired Royal Marines officer who served as Chief of Joint Operations from 2011 to 2015.
Lieutenant General Robert Andrew Magowan,is a senior Royal Marines officer who serves as the Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff since May 2022. He previously served as Commandant General Royal Marines from 2016 to 2017 and again from 2021 to 2022.
General Gwyn Jenkins,is a senior Royal Marines officer,serving as Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff since August 2022. He was concurrently appointed Commandant General Royal Marines in November 2022.
Major General Matthew John Holmes,was a British senior Royal Marines officer who served for more than three decades in the armed forces. After studying economics at the University of Exeter,he joined the Royal Marines and undertook early tours of duty to Norway,the Far East,Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe. After being deployed to Kosovo and Afghanistan,he commanded 42 Commando Royal Marines from 2006 to 2008 and was awarded a Distinguished Service Order for his leadership in Afghanistan. Holmes served as Commandant General Royal Marines from 2019 to 2021.
