The commander of the Royal Navy in the latter half of the Great War grew a reputation as one of the great leaders in the history of the service, although his actions at Jutland in 1916 were not without their critics.

The first non-posthumous winner of the Victoria Cross in the First World War, Private Sidney Godley manned a machine gun alone to cover the retreat of his unit from the Mons Canal in 1914. Grievously wounded, he was captured by the Germans and presumed dead.

The controversial head of RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War, and architect of the strategic bombing campaign that laid waste to German cities.