List of Cornish soldiers, commanders and sailors

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

Army and Air Force officers and other ranks

• 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
• Captain Albert Jacka VC, MC and Bar, the first Australian to win the VC at Gallipoli (his family migrated to Victoria from St Buryan)
• Rick Rescorla, U.S. war hero and 9/11 victim (1939–2001)
• Sergeant Steven Roberts, the first solder 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
• Arthur Tremayne, soldier in the Crimean War
• 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
• Geoffrey Wellum, DFC, fighter pilot and author

Commanders

• Sir John Arundell, Cornish Royalist commander
• 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
• Philip Melvill, Governor of Pendennis Castle, Falmouth
• William Scawen, Royalist commander in the English Civil War
• 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

Seamen

• James Erisey, privateer
• Captain William Hennah, RN
• Robert Peverell Hichens, DSO, DSC, lieutenant commander, RNVR
• Sir Edward Nicholl, commander, RNR
• William Odgers, VC, sailor in New Zealand
• Spry family, of St Antony in Roseland: several members of the family were commanders in the Royal Navy
• James Trevenen, captain in the Russian Navy
• Joseph Trewavas, VC, seaman in the Royal Navy
• Mark Versallion, lieutenant, RNR

Admirals

• 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 Frank Hopkins, a former captain of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal
• Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, Royal Navy admiral
• Admiral Barrington Reynolds, RN, notable for an anti-slavery expedition
• Rear-Admiral Robert Carthew Reynolds, RN^[1]
• Sir Bartholomew Sulivan, Royal Navy admiral and hydrographer

See also

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

References

1. ^ Reynolds, Robert Carthew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, J. K. Laughton, Retrieved 29 March 2008