List of Old Etonians in the Military
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Thirty-seven Old Etonians have been awarded the Victoria Cross, and the conflicts in which they performed those acts range from the Crimean War to the Falklands War. There have also been four Old Etonians eligible for the George Cross, although one of those eligible did not convert his Empire Gallantry Medal to a George Cross. [1]
- Victoria Cross
- Crimean War
- Lieutenant-General Lord Henry Percy VC, (1817–1877)
- Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Russell, VC (1826–1883) and politician
- Gerald Goodlake VC, (1832–1890)
- Robert James Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage, VC (1832–1901), and politician
- Indian Mutiny
- Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Fraser VC, (1829–1895)
- Clement Walker Heneage, VC (1831–1901)
- Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts VC, (1832–1914), Commander-in-Chief, Madras, 1881–1885, India, 1885–1893, Ireland, 1895–1899, and South Africa, 1899–1900, Commander-in-Chief, 1901–1904,
- Umbeyla Expedition
- George Fosbery (1832–1907), VC and firearms expert
- Zulu War
- General Sir Redvers Buller, VC (1839–1908), Adjutant General, 1890–1897, General Officer Commanding Natal, 1899–1900, and I Corps, 1901–1906,
- Lord William Beresford, VC (1847–1900)
- Sudan Campaign
- Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson VC, (1842–1921), Third Sea Lord, 1897–1901, Flag Officer Commanding Channel Squadron, 1901–1908, and Home Fleet, 1903–1907, First Sea Lord, 1909–1912
- William Edwards VC, (1855–1912)
- Brigadier General Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, VC (1872–1955), Governor of South Australia, 1928–1934, and New South Wales, 1935–1936, Governor-General of Australia, 1936–1944.
- Malakand Campaign
- Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore VC, (1871–1962)
- Boer War
- Charles FitzClarence, VC (1865–1914)
- Frederick Roberts, VC (1872–1899)
- Somaliland Campaign
- Major-General Sir John Gough VC, (1871–1915)
- First World War
- Brigadier-General John Campbell VC, (1876–1944)
- George Boyd-Rochfort VC, (1880–1940)
- Francis Grenfell VC, (1880–1915)
- Arthur Batten-Pooll VC, (1891–1971),
- William Congreve VC, (1891–1916)
- Sir John Graham VC, (1892–1980)
- John Dunville VC, (1896–1917)
- Julian Royds Gribble VC, (1897–1918)
- Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pugh Evans VC, (1881–1962)
- Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Borton VC, (1883–1933)
- Lieutenant-Colonel Neville Elliott-Cooper VC, (1889–1918)
- Lieutenant Geoffrey Drummond VC, RNVR (1886–1941)
- Captain Percy Hansen VC, (1890–1951)
- North West Frontier
- Godfrey Meynell VC, (1904–1935)
- Second World War
- William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle VC, (1909–1991)
- Christopher Furness VC, (1912–1940)
- Charles Anthony Lyell, 2nd Baron Lyell VC, (1913–1943)
- Geoffrey Keyes VC, (1917–1941)
- David Jamieson VC, (1920–2001)
- Falklands War
- Crimean War
- George Cross
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- Squadron Leader G. C. N. Close GC RAF
- Cadet D.G.M. Hay GC RNR (later 12th Marquess of Tweeddale)
- Squadron Leader A. H. H. Tollemache GC, R.Aux.A.F.
- Eligible but did not convert Empire Gallantry Medal
- Flying Officer G. R. Branch, RAF
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