Major General Sir Nevill Maskelyne Smyth, was a senior officer in the British Army and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Colonel John Gurwood, British Army was a successful cavalry officer wounded at many battles on several occasions, leaving long-term emotional and physical scars. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath for his duty to the service. After Waterloo, and the re-settlement of the army on a grateful nation, Gurwood became a writer and historian. A legacy of depression and loneliness led to a tragic and untimely death.
General Sir Robert Arbuthnot, KCB was a British military commander during the Napoleonic Wars. He was a General in the army, a colonel in the 76th Regiment. He was a Brigadier General in the Portuguese Service and was appointed a Knight of the Tower and Sword of Portugal (KTS).
Lieutenant General Richard Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian, known as Sir Hussey Vivian from 1815 to 1828 and Sir Hussey Vivian, Bt, from 1828 to 1841, was a British cavalry leader from the Vivian family.
Field Marshal Sir William Shearman Rowan, was a British Army officer. He served in the Peninsular War and then the Hundred Days, fighting at the Battle of Waterloo and taking part in an important charge led by Sir John Colborne against the Imperial Guard when he was wounded. He later assisted Colborne in Colborne's new role as Acting Governor General of British North America during the rebellions by the Patriote movement in 1837. Rowan returned to Canada as Commander-in-Chief, North America in which role he made an important conciliatory speech in response to the burning of the Parliament Buildings in Montreal by an angry mob in April 1849.
Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Campbell was a British Army officer and colonial governor.
General Sir Charles Whittingham Horsley Douglas, was a British Army officer who served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, the First Boer War, the Suakin Expedition, the Second Boer War and the First World War. He was Chief of the Imperial General Staff during the first three months of the First World War but died from strain and overwork without having any meaningful influence on the outcome of the war.
Kenneth Alexander Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham, was a British peer and soldier.
General Sir Thomas Montagu Steele was a British army officer.
General Sir Robert Cyril Ford was a British army general who was Adjutant-General to the Forces. The Bloody Sunday shootings occurred during his tenure as Commander Land Forces, Northern Ireland.
General Sir James Dawes Douglas was a British Army officer, who had a long and illustrious military career, which included commanding Portuguese troops in the Peninsular War.
General Sir George Bowles was a British general, colonel of the 1st West India Regiment, and lieutenant of the Tower of London.
Sir William Henry Elliott, (1792–1874), was a British Army general.
Lieutenant-General Sir Henry D'Urban Keary was a British Indian Army officer, who served in a number of colonial conflicts before commanding an Indian division during the First World War.
General Sir John Ormsby Vandeleur was a British Army officer who fought in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.
Lieutenant-General Sir John William Waters KCB was a Welsh officer in the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars.
General Sir James Archibald Hope, was a senior officer in the British Army.
General Sir James Vaughan Jackson, GCB, KH was an Irish officer in the British Army.
General William Neville Custance CB was a senior British Army officer, who served initially as an infantry officer; but mainly as cavalry officer. Seeing service in the Crimean War and the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
Thomas Harrison was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1728 to 1734.
