Armed Forces

Bowater, William
1897
Lt-Col, RAMC; son of Sir William Bowater (1871).

Bradfield, Ernest W C
1898
Kt; Lieutenant-General; Director-General of the Indian Medical Service, Honorary Physician to the King

Conolly, John
1847
Lieut-Col; a boarder in Prince Lee's house; with the 49th Foot in the Crimea, fought at the Battle of the Alma, at Sebastopol, and won the VC on 26 October 1854, the day after Balaclava; later Major and then Lt-Col in the Coldstream Guards. After leaving the army, he was an assistant police commissioner and then a magistrate in Ireland.

Cowie, A
1958
Military Attaché, Budapest.

Dauncey, Michael D K
1937
DSO; Brigadier; Military Attaché in Madrid (1974- ), Colonel of the Cheshire Regiment (1978).

Downes, John Alfred
1935
Soldier, ultimately Brevet Colonel; fought at El Alamein and won the MC at Alam el Halfa.

Godfrey, John H
1902
Naval Officer, Director of Naval Intelligence 1939-1943; Ian Fleming, who worked in his department, used him as the model for 'M' in the James Bond novels.

Guest, Charles Edward Neville
1916
Kt; KBE; CB; Air Marshal.

Hands, Charles
19th C
War correspondent for the Daily Mail, wounded while with the relieving forces on their way to Mafeking.

Johnson, T W M
1916
Colonel.

Johnstone, James
19th C
Kt; soldier, serving in the Indian Mutiny, eventually Major-General, remembered in connection with Kohima Relief Expedition; KCSI.

Kekewich, R G
1867
CB; Major-General; Defender of Kimberley in Boer War; died of wounds 5 Nov 1914.

Lycett, Cyril Vernon Lechmere
1912
Brigadier, Director of Signals and Intelligence, India and South East Asia, 1945-46, serving under Lord Mountbatten.

Manifold, J F
19th C
Soldier, fought in the Boer War, in Ladysmith during the siege; ultimately Lt-Col.

Perry-Keene, Allan LA
1916
Air Vice Marshal; Air Commander, Royal Pakistan Air Force (1947-49).

Roberts, C K
1936
DSO; Rear Admiral, Royal Navy (1967)

Sanders, H J
1905
Colonel.

Saundby, Robert
1914
Kt; Air Marshal; KBE, KCB; awarded the MC in 1917 for destroying a German Airship off Harwich, and the DFC in 1926 for services in Aden; Deputy AOC in C, Bomber Command (1943-1945).

Slim, William
1910
Viscount: KG; GCB; GCMG; GCVO; GBE; DSO; MC; Field - Marshal; Victor of Burma (as Commander in Chief of the Allied Land Forces in South East Asia); Governor-General of Australia (1953-1960)

Smallwood, Denis Graham
1936
Kt; GBE; KCB; DSO; DFC; Air Chief Marshal; C-in-C RAF Strike Command (1974); C-in-C RAF in the UK (1975-1976).

Vyse, Richard
1762
Commander of the 1st Dragoon Guards in Flanders (1784);

Major-General (1794); General (1812);

Controller to the Duke of Cumberland.

Wansbrough, R C
1912
Air Commodore, RAF.