From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of currently serving members House of Commons, House of Lords, Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales, Northern Ireland Assembly, Police and Crime Commissioner who are military veterans.
Name
|
Party
|
Service & Branch
|
Rank
|
Notes
|
Euan Geddes, 3rd Baron Geddes
|
|
Conservative
|
Royal Naval Reserve
|
Lieutenant Commander
|
|
John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles
|
|
Conservative
|
King's Royal Rifle Corps
|
Lieutenant
|
|
Simon Arthur, 4th Baron Glenarthur
|
|
Conservative
|
The Royal Hussars (1976 – 1980)
|
Major
|
|
Robin Bridgeman, 3rd Viscount Bridgeman
|
|
Conservative
|
Royal Green Jackets (1950 – 1953)
|
Lieutenant
|
|
Arthur Gore, 9th Earl of Arran
|
|
Conservative
|
Grenadier Guards
|
Lieutenant
|
|
Rupert Ponsonby, 7th Baron de Mauley
|
|
Conservative
|
Royal Wessex Yeomanry (1976 – 2005)
|
Lieutenant Colonel
|
TD (1988)
|
Hugh Trenchard, 3rd Viscount Trenchard
|
|
Conservative
|
Household Cavalry (1973 – 1983)
|
Captain
|
|
Charles Cathcart, 7th Earl Cathcart
|
|
Conservative
|
Scots Guards (1973 – 1975)
|
Lieutenant
|
|
Thomas Ashton, 4th Baron Ashton of Hyde
|
|
Conservative
|
Royal Wessex Yeomanry
|
Lieutenant
|
|
Alan Brooke, 3rd Viscount Brookeborough
|
|
Crossbench
|
17th/21st Lancers (1971 – 1977) Ulster Defence Regiment / Royal Irish Regiment (1977 – 1997)
|
Colonel
|
|
Merlin Hay, 24th Earl of Erroll
|
|
Crossbench
|
Atholl Highlanders (1974 – 1997)
|
Colonel
|
|
Patrick Boyle, 10th Earl of Glasgow
|
|
Liberal Democrats
|
Royal Naval Reserve (1960 – 1963)
|
Sub-Lieutenant
|
|
Jeffrey Sterling, Baron Sterling of Plaistow
|
|
Conservative
|
Royal Naval Reserve
|
Rear Admiral
|
|
David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead
|
|
Crossbench
|
Seaforth Highlanders (1957 – 1959)
|
Lieutenant
|
|
Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking
|
|
Conservative
|
British Army
|
Lieutenant
|
|
Tony Christopher, Baron Christopher
|
|
Labour
|
Royal Air Force (1944 – 1948)
|
|
|
Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater
|
|
Conservative
|
King's African Rifles
|
Lieutenant
|
|
Michael Heseltine, Baron Heseltine
|
|
Non-affiliated
|
Welsh Guards (1959)
|
Lieutenant
|
|
Ken Maginnis, Baron Maginnis of Drumglass
|
|
Independent Ulster Unionist
|
Ulster Defence Regiment (1971 – 1981)
|
Major
|
|
John Burnett, Baron Burnett
|
|
Liberal Democrats
|
Royal Marines
|
Commando
|
|
Richard Harries, Baron Harries of Pentregarth
|
|
Crossbench
|
Royal Corps of Signals (1955 – 1958)
|
Lieutenant
|
|
Michael Walker, Baron Walker of Aldringham
|
|
Crossbench
|
British Army (1966 – 2006)
|
Field Marshal
|
Chief of the Defence Staff (2003 – 2006)
|
Alan West, Baron West of Spithead
|
|
Labour
|
Royal Navy (1965 – 2006)
|
Admiral
|
DSC (1983) First Sea Lord (2002 – 2006)
|
Robin Janvrin, Baron Janvrin
|
|
Crossbench
|
Royal Navy (1964 – 1975)
|
Lieutenant
|
|
Richard Dannatt, Baron Dannatt
|
|
Crossbench
|
British Army (1971 – 2009)
|
General
|
MC (1972) Chief of the General Staff (2006 – 2009)
|
Jock Stirrup, Baron Stirrup
|
|
Crossbench
|
Royal Air Force (1968 – 2011)
|
Marshal of the Royal Air Force
|
Chief of the Defence Staff (2006 – 2010)
|
John Boyle, 15th Earl of Cork
|
|
Crossbench
|
Royal Navy (1963 – 1978)
|
Lieutenant Commander
|
|
Mark Lancaster, Baron Lancaster of Kimbolton
|
|
Conservative
|
Royal Engineers (1988 – present)
|
Major General
|
TD (2002) VRSM (2012)
|
Andrew Robathan, Baron Robathan
|
|
Conservative
|
Coldstream Guards Special Air Service (1974 – 1989)
|
Major
|
|
Richard Benyon, Baron Benyon
|
|
Conservative
|
Royal Green Jackets (1980 – 1985)
|
|
|
Thomas Coke, 8th Earl of Leicester
|
|
Conservative
|
Scots Guards (1987 – 1991)
|
|
|
Ruth Davidson, Baroness Davidson of Lundin Links
|
|
Conservative
|
Territorial Army (2003 – 2006)
|
Signaller
|
|
David Hacking, 3rd Baron Hacking
|
|
Labour
|
Royal Naval Reserve (1954 – 1964)
|
Lieutenant
|
|
Clifton Wrottesley, 6th Baron Wrottesley
|
|
Conservative
|
Grenadier Guards
|
Captain
|
|
Nicholas Soames, Baron Soames of Fletching
|
|
Conservative
|
11th Hussars / Royal Hussars Regular Army Reserve (1970 – 1975)
|
2nd Lieutenant
|
|
Hugo Swire, Baron Swire
|
|
Conservative
|
Grenadier Guards (1980 – 1983)
|
|
|
Michael Hintze, Baron Hintze
|
|
Conservative
|
Australian Army
|
Captain
|
|
Stuart Peach, Baron Peach
|
|
Crossbench
|
Royal Air Force (1974 – 2022)
|
Air Chief Marshall
|
Chief of the Defence Staff (2016 – 2018) Chair of the NATO Military Committee (2018 – 2021)
|
Name
|
Constituency
|
Party
|
Service & Branch
|
Rank
|
Notes
|
|
|
|
Conservative
|
|
|
|
See also[edit]
References[edit]