category: MILITARY
Life stories are listed by date of birth.
Jack, John. Born 1780. (22 pages). Soldier who fought in the Battle of Waterloo.
Burgoyne, John Fox. Born 1782. (11 pages). Field Marshal.
Bell, William. Born 1792. (7 pages). A military life in the East India Company.
Trelawny, Clarence. Born 1826. (5 pages). Officer in the Radetsky Hussars.
Luckock, Russell. Born 1877. (19 pages). Army officer in Boer and First World Wars.
Smith, Eddie. Born 1890. (236 pages). A Royal Engineer in the First World War.
Stanier, Alexander. Born 1899. (73 pages). Decorated officer in two world wars.
Melville, John Murray. Born 1914. (150 pages). Life as a prisoner of war.
Anckorn, Fergus. Born 1918. (8 pages). Soldier, conjurer, and prisoner of war.
Hines, Gordon. Born 1918. (42 pages). Soldier, engineer and prisoner of war.
Watts, Gordon. Born 1918. (28 pages). Army officer.
Neres, Philip. Born 1922. (19 pages). Special Operations agent.
Cross, John. Born 1925. (18 pages). Soldier and author.
Phillips, Winifred. Born 1926. (9 pages). First female Chelsea Pensioner.