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This is a list of Cornish people who were notable soldiers, seamen or airmen.

Army and Air Force officers and other ranks

  • Major Arthur Agar-Robartes, British Army officer and cricketer
  • Captain Thomas Agar-Robartes, British Army officer and MP
  • Harold "Harry" Billinge (died 2022), sapper, D-Day veteran
  • Colonel James Carne VC DSO, British Army officer
  • John Gilbert "Jack" Cock DCM MM, soldier and footballer
  • Horace Augustus Curtis VC, British soldier
  • Robert Davies, Lieutenant of the Royal Engineers awarded the G.C. for bomb-disposal in 1940 saving St. Paul's Cathedral.
  • John Enys, British soldier during the American Revolution.
  • James Fynn VC, British soldier
  • Lieutenant Colonel Sidney Godolphin, soldier and Member of Parliament
  • Captain Albert Jacka VC, MC and Bar, the first Australian to win the VC at Gallipoli (his family migrated to Victoria from St Buryan)
  • Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Arthur Olver, British army officer and expert on animal husbandry
  • Rick Rescorla, U.S. war hero and 9/11 victim (1939–2001)
  • Sergeant Steven Roberts, the first soldier to die in the invasion of Iraq
  • Captain George Symons VC, DCM, artillery officer
  • Sir John Trelawny, 1st Baronet, soldier in the English Civil War
  • Captain Arthur Tremayne, soldier in the Crimean War; MP for Truro
  • Captain Robert Walling, Royal Garrison Artillery
Airmen
  • Wing Commander Guy Gibson of The Dambusters.
  • Charles Reep, airman and inventor of the long ball in soccer
  • Nigel Tangye, airman, author and hotelier at Newquay
  • Geoffrey Wellum, DFC, fighter pilot and author

Commanders

  • Sir John Arundell, Cornish Royalist commander
  • Colonel Edward Bolitho, British Army officer
  • Major-General Charles Edward-Collins, British Indian Army officer.
  • Major-General Sir Wyndham Childs, British Army officer and Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis
  • Sir Walter Gilbert, 1st Baronet, general
  • Bevil Grenville, Cornish Royalist commander
  • Sir Richard Grenville, 1st Baronet (or Granville) (1600–1658), Cornish Royalist leader during the English Civil War
  • Major General Sir Gerald Kitson, British Army officer
  • Philip Melvill, Governor of Pendennis Castle, Falmouth
  • William Scawen, Royalist commander in the English Civil War
  • Major-General Sir William Penn Symons KCB, British Army officer
  • Richard Trant (d. 2007), general in the British army
  • John Trevanion, Cornish Royalist commander
  • John Johns Trigg, officer in the Virginia militia, American Civil War
  • Stephen Trigg, brother of John, politician and officer in the Virginia militia, American Civil War
  • David Tyacke, GOC Singapore District, last Commanding Officer of the DCLI
  • James Howard Williams (Elephant Bill), lieutenant-colonel in the British Indian Army and elephant expert
  • Sir Charles Wills, British Army general and politician
Airmen
  • Air Chief Marshal Sir Alec Coryton, Royal Air Force officer
  • Air Commodore John Grigson DSO, DFC, Royal Air Force

Seamen

  • John Eliot, captain in the Royal Navy and Governor of West Florida
  • James Erisey, privateer
  • Captain William Hennah, RN
  • Robert Peverell Hichens, DSO, DSC, lieutenant commander, RNVR
  • William Hicks, Lieut. RN
  • Sir Edward Nicholl, commander, RNR
  • William Odgers, VC, sailor in New Zealand
  • Ernest Herbert Pitcher, VC, petty officer in the Royal Navy
  • Spry family, of St Anthony in Roseland: several members of the family were commanders in the Royal Navy
  • John St Aubyn, 4th Baron St Levan, hereditary peer and decorated Royal Navy officer
  • Walter Tremenheere KH (1761-1855), colonel of marines
  • James Trevenen, captain in the Russian Navy; officer in the Royal Navy
  • Joseph Trewavas, VC, seaman in the Royal Navy
  • Mark Versallion, lieutenant, RNR
  • Samuel Wallis, commander in the Royal Navy and explorer of the Pacific
  • Charles Bampfield Yule, lieutenant, RN

Admirals

See also

  • Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry officers
  • Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry soldiers
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