Military
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Military
Edward de Faye, a tank commander killed at the Battle of Cambrai
Follow these links to biographies of some of Jersey's most
important soldiers, sailors and airmen
The list of Jerseymen who have left the island to achieve fame and high rank in Britain's armed forces is extensive. Here are links to the biographies of some of the more renowned.
Army
- Brigadier General Thomas Anquetil
- Sir Harry Burrard, Lieut-General
- Major-General James Dauvergne
- Edward de Faye, a tank commander killed at the Battle of Cambrai
- Sir Gedeon Philippes de Gorrequer, French descendant who fought Napoleon and helped detain him in St Helena
- Francis de Gruchy, Indian Army and Foreign Legion officer; military historian
- Louis Dutot, Major (Quartermaster) Louis Charles Marcel Dutot MBE (1954), The Dorset Regiment and at Dunkirk
- Thomas Charles Foster MC NEW
- Brigadier General John William Godfray
- Major General Sir William Gosset
- Major General James William Gosset
- George Francis Robert Henderson, soldier and military author
- George Heriot, Major-General in the Canadian army
- Major-General Neville Hind Indian Army officer and Jersey politician
- Francis John Joslin, Major killed at Ypres
- Leo Le Boutillier DCM, Canadian soldier
- Captain Oliver Le Boutillier, Great War flying ace
- Charles Philip Le Cornu, aide-de-camp to three British monarchs
- Lieut-General John Le Couteur, career soldier, politician, Brigade-Major of the Militia
- Sir John Le Couteur, Colonel, aide-de-camp to William IV and Victoria
- Philip Walter Jules Le Gallais, cavalry leader
- Charles William Le Geyt, army officer who fought in the Battle of Minden; Jersey`s first Postmaster
- Thomas Lempriere Militia Colonel
- Philip Janvrin Marett, Army surgeon and medical researcher
- Colonel Nathaniel Meserve, grandson of a Jersey emigrant at the seige of Louisbourg
- Brigadier John Anquetil Norman
- Brigadier Roy Osborne-Smith
- General Helier Touzel
- Lieutenant Clifford Henry Mecham: A young officer who was educated in Jersey and was at the Siege of Lucknow in the Indian Mutiny
- Edward Thompson Dickson: Early 20th century General
- Florence Puddicombe, medal-winning army nurse
- Rear-Admiral Charles Bertram
- Admiral of the Fleet Sir Cecil Burney
- Philippe Carteret Lieutenant RN, killed in battle
- Rear-Admiral Philip de Carteret, twice circumnavigated the globe
- Corbet James Dauvergne Commander RN and Governor of Heligoland
- Philip d'Auvergne Vice-Admiral
- Vice-Admiral Philip Durell
- Thomas Durell Captain RN
- Rear-Admiral Henry Gosset
- Lt-Cdr Ronald John Hanson, WW2 destroyer captain
- Valentine Joyce, leader of Spithead mutiny
- Vice-Admiral George Le Geyt
- Admiral Sir Thomas Le Hardy
- Admiral Sir Charles Le Hardy
- James Lempriere, Captain RN
- John Luce, mariner Commander RN
- John Pakenham Pipon, Captain RN
- Vice Admiral Edward de Faye Renouf, distinguished Royal Navy officer and inventor
- Captain Philippe Vibert, a gallant Jerseyman who died in a naval battle off Canada
- Henry Felix Woods, Admiral in the Ottoman Navy
- Capt Thomas Philip Durell
RAF
- Air Marshal Alick Charles Stevens
- Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Alcock, Old Victorian
- Charles Stanley Mossop and Henry Charles Biard, two Old Victorian World War One pilots
- Air Commodore Harold Fenton, Battle of Britain hero
- Jack Bedford Ball, airship pilot in WW1
Victoria Cross recipients
- William Arthur McCrae Bruce
- George Henry Ingouville
- Ferdinand Simeon Le Quesne
- Allastair Malcolm Cluny McReady-Diarmid
- Henry William Pitcher
- Euston Henry Sartorius
- Reginald William Sartorius
- Jack Counter
- Patrick Roddy Added 2016
- Harold Ackroyd Added 2016
- Lieutenant Samuel Hill Lawrence: His mother lived in Jersey when he won his VC during the Siege of Lucknow
- Lieut Alfred Gibaut: Two local papers said that he was awarded the VC posthumously during the Indian Mutiny
