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

 * Captain Thomas Agar-Robartes, British Army officer and MP
 * Colonel James Carne VC DSO, British Army officer
 * John Gilbert "Jack" Cock DCM MM, soldier and footballer
 * 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.
 * Air Commodore John Grigson DSO, DFC, Royal Air Force
 * 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
 * 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

 * 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
 * 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
 * James Trevenen, captain in the Russian Navy
 * Joseph Trewavas, VC, seaman in the Royal Navy
 * Mark Versallion, lieutenant, RNR

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 Frank Hopkins, Royal Navy Admiral, a former captain of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal (R09)
 * 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
 * Richard Darton Thomas, Royal Navy admiral
 * Sir John Forster "Sandy" Woodward, Royal Navy admiral