List of Cornish soldiers, commanders and sailors

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 (R09)
 * 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