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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
- Sir John Arundell of Lanherne alias John Fitzalan, 1st Baron Arundel (died 1379), naval commander and Lord Marshal of England
- Sir John Arundell, admiral, known as 'Jack of Tilbury'
- William Bligh, captain of HMS Bounty, botanist, governor of New South Wales, Royal Navy admiral
- Edward Boscawen, Royal Navy admiral
- Sir Frederick Edward-Collins, Admiral RN; Acting Governor and Commander in Chief of the Fortress of Gibraltar
- Sir Frank Hopkins, Royal Navy Admiral, a former captain of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal
- Vice-Admiral Charles Trelawny Jago
- Rear-Admiral Bartholomew James (1752 – 1828), naval officer and writer
- Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, Royal Navy admiral
- Admiral Barrington Reynolds, RN, notable for an anti-slavery expedition
- Rear-Admiral Robert Carthew Reynolds, RN
- Sir Bartholomew Sulivan, Royal Navy admiral and hydrographer
- Rear-Admiral Thomas Ball Sulivan, Royal Navy officer
- Richard Darton Thomas, Royal Navy admiral
- Sir John Forster "Sandy" Woodward, Royal Navy admiral
See also
References
- Harry Billinge: Cornwall D-Day veteran dies aged 96; 5 April 2022
- Teach Yourself To Fly; by Squadron Leader Nigel Tangye, R.A.F.O. (1941) (Reprinted by Hodder, 2008; ISBN 978-0-340-96614-3)
- Tangye began his service career in the Royal Navy.
- Who Was Who
- The Dictionary of National Biography; the Concise Dictionary from the beginnings to 1930. London: Oxford University Press, 1939; p. 1313
- Charles Trelawny Jago; Dreadnought Project
- Reynolds, Robert Carthew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, J. K. Laughton, Retrieved 29 March 2008