Actors
Sir Francis Robert Benson, Croix de Guerre (1858 – 1939) - British actor-manager (cousin of actor Basil Rathbone) - drove an ambulance in France during WW1
Basil Rathbone, MC (1892 – 1967) - South African-born English actor. Served as Private with the London Scottish Regiment. Commissioned Lieutenant in the 2/10th Battalion of the King's Liverpool Regiment (Liverpool Scottish), serving as an intelligence officer, eventually attaining the rank of Captain.
Poets and Writers
William Robert Fountaine Addison VC (1883 – 1962) – British Anglican Church Minister and poet
Gabriele d’Annunzio (Italian) OMS,GMG, MVM
Edmund Clerihew Bentley - Chevalier of the Belgian Order of the Crown
Paul Bewsher, DSC
Edmund Blunden MC
Lt. John Brown, MC
Charles Carrington, MC
Stanley Casson (1889 - 1944) - WW1 poet and amateur soldier - Mentioned in Despatches and Chevalier of the Greek Order of the Redeemer
Edouard Chiesa, Croix de Guerre (1887 - 1915) – French poet killed fighting at Gallipoli
Erskine Childers, DSC
2nd Lieutenant L. N. Cook, MC, GVR, Royal Lancaster Regiment
Noel Marcus Francis Corbett (1887 – 1962) – British Royal Naval officer and poet - French Croix de Guerre
Miles Jeffery Game Day, DSC
Owen Evans, MM (1888 – 1918) - Welsh poet – Bardic name Rhiwlas
John Orr Ewing, MC (1884 - 1961) – poet; Major in 16th Lancers
Denys Garstin MC, DSO, Order of St. Catherine of Russia (1890 - 1918) – British writer, poet, diplomat and soldier
Edward John Langford Garstin MC (1893 - 1955) – British poet
Henri Gervex (1852 - 1929) – French artist – French Croix de Guerre
The Hon. Julian G. Grenfell, DSO
Llewelyn Wyn Griffith (1890 - 1977) - poet and writer; Captain Rioyal Welch Fusiliers, O.B.E., French Croix de Guerre & three Mentions in Despatches
James Norman Hall (1887 – 1951) – American WW1 soldier, airman, writer and poet – awarded French Croix de Guerre with five palms, the Médaille Militaire, French Légion d'Honneur and the American Distinguished Service Cross.
Lt. Col. John Hay Maitland Hardyman DSO, MC
F.W. Harvey, DCM
Ivan Heald MC (1883 - 1916) - British writer, poet and journalist
Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961) – American writer - awarded the Italian War Merit Cross, the Croce al Merito di Guerra for service in the Red Cross in Italy during WW1
William Noel Hodgson, MC 1893 – 1916) – British soldier poet
Robert Jentzsch (1890 – 1918) – German poet and mathmetician - Iron Cross 2nd and 1st Class
Ernst Jünger (1895 – 1998) - German writer; served in German Army WW1. Awarded 1916 Iron Cross (1914) II. and I. Class; 1917 Prussian House Order of Hohenzollern Knight's Cross with Swords; 1918 Wound Badge (1918) in Gold; 1918 Pour le Mérite (Blue Max) - military class
Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy MC (1883 –1929) aka Woodbine Willy; Army Chaplain and poet
Joyce Kilmer (1886 - 1918) – French Croix de Guerre
Percy Hugh Beverley Lyon, MC – British poet known as PHBL
Donald Alxander Mackenzie MC (1889 - 1971) – British school teacher; served Royal Field Artillery, France
Ewart Alan Mackintosh, MC
John Charles Beech Masefield, MC
Charles Scott Moncrieff, MC
Armine Frank Gibson Norris MC
Wilfred Owen, MC
George Smith Patton Jr. (1885 - 1945) Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Service Medal and Purple Heart for his combat wounds after the decoration was created in 1932.
Vivian Telfer Pemberton MC,
Alexander Lancaster Pemberton, MC
Claude Quayle Penrose MC and Bar, MiD
Herbert Edward Read, MC, DSO, MiD
Frank Richards, DCM, MM, born Francis Philip Woodruff (1883 -1961) – Welsh soldier and writer
Edgell Rickword MC
Siegfried Sassoon, MC
William Maunsell Scanlan, MC, MM – Canadian
Gerald Caldwell Siordet, MC – British (Somme, 1st July 1916 kia Feb. 1917)
Francis W. Smith, MC Lieutenant, Leeds Rifles, West Yorks Regt. Reilly p 296
Captain James Sprent, MC (1883 - 1948) – Australian poet and doctor
Adrian Consett Stephen, MC – Australian writer
John Ebenezer Stewart MC
Patrick Shaw-Stewart was awarded the Chevalier of the Legion of Honour – Croix de Guerre (France) for his services as a Liaison Officer with the French Headquarters.
W.G. Thomas, MC (1883 - 1960) - Captain
Edward John Thompson, MC, MiD - Poet and Chaplain (1886 – 1946) – 7th Division, Mesopotamia
Arthur Walderne St. Clair Tisdall, VC (1890 - 1915) – British poet
Robert Bagster Wilson Vinter, MC (1896 – 1916) – British soldier and aspiring poet
Hugh Walpole (1884 - 1941) - awarded The Russian Cross of St. George, and the C.B.E. in WW1 and a knighthood in 1937
Richard Brereton Marriott Watson MC
Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavel MC (1883 - 1950) - awarded MC during 2nd Battle of Ypres
John Hunter Wickersham Congressional Medal of Honor (1890 - 1918) – American WW1 soldier poet
Eric Fitzwater Wilkinson, MC
Alice Williams Medaille de la Reconnaissance Française - Welsh Poet bardic name being Alys Meirion
Fabian Strachey Woodley, MC (1888 - 1957)
Geoffrey Harold Woolley, VC, OBE, MC (1892 – 1968) - British poet, writer, WW1 Army infantry officer, Anglican Priest & WW2 Military Chaplain – 1st British Territorial Army officer to be awarded the Victoria Cross
Robert Julian Yeatman MC (15 July 1897 – 13 July 1968) - British humorist wrote for “Punch” magazine.
Edward Hilton Young, GBE, DSO, DSC & Bar, PC
Geoffrey Winthrop Young (1876 - 1958) - British poet and mountaineer; served with the Friends Ambulance Unit,and later in command of the First British Ambulance for Italy. He was mentioned in British Despatches and awarded the Belgian Order of Leopold for exceptional courage and resource, and the Italian silver medal' for Valour'
Artists/Photographers, etc:
Joseph Marius Jean Avy (1871 - 1939)- French Croix de Guerre – French artist
Geoffrey de Gruchy Barkas, MC, artist/film maker
Hans Bartle (1880 - 1943) - Austrian official WW1 artist. Iron Cross; Silver Medal for Bravery; the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order
Alan Edmund Beeton, MC
John Warwick Brooke DCM – official WW1 war photographer
John Cosmo Clark, MC (1897 – 1967) – British artist and art teacher; served in Artists Rifles WW1
Philip Lindsey Clark, DSO, ARBS (1889–1977) - British sculptor. In December 1917, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O) for "...conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when in command of the left flank company of the battalion."
Helena Gleichen - awarded the Italian Bronze Medal of Military Valour
William Robert Gregory MC (1881 – 1918) - Irish-born, RFC/RAF British airman, artist and cricketer; France made him a Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur in 1917
Antony Gibbons Grinling, MC – artist and sculptor
Carl W Herman, MM (1888 – 1955) – artist
Christopher Wyndham Hughes MC (1881-1961) – British artist and teacher; served in7th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment
Charles Sargeant Jagger MC ARA (1885 – 1934) British sculptor
Richard Barrett Talbot Kelly MC (1896-1971), Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery
Henry Taylor Lamb MC (1883 - 1960) - Australian-born artist; Royal Army Medical Corps battalion medical officer with the 5th Battalion, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in Palestine & Western Front
Paul Maximilien Landowski, Croix de Guerre (1 June 1875 – 31 March 1961) – French Scultpor and WW1 camouflage artist
A. W. Lloyd, MC – Arthur Wynell Lloyd (1883 - 1933) – British cartoonist
Walter Marsden MC (1882–1969) – sculptor
John B. McDowell, MC, BEM (1877 – 1954) – British film maker, director and cameraman during WW1
Waldo Peirce (December 17, 1884 – March 8, 1970) was an American painter, who for many years reveled in living the life of a bohemian expatriate. Croix de Guerre
William Charles Penn MC
Geneste Penrose MM
Gerald Spencer Pryse MC (1882–1956) was a British artist and lithographer.
E. Claude Rowberry, MM, (1896 - 1962) – artist
Walter Westley Russell (1867–1949) - Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers; Mentioned in Dispatches.
E.H. Shepard, MC – artist
William George Storm, MC (1882 - 1917) – Canadian artist
Dents Wells, BEM (1881-1973) served in the Artists Rifles during WWI; awarded a B.E.M. for gallantry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire_Medal
Charles Arthur Wheeler, DCM (1880 - 1877) - New Zealand artist. Served in 22 Bn Royal Fusiliers; awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal (1916) for his actions at Vimy Ridge
Sir George Hubert Wilkins MC & Bar (31 October 1888 – 30 November 1958).
NOTE: James Miles Langstaff ( 1883 - 1917) was Mentioned in Despatches and recommended for a Military Cross.
Chaplains
Rev. W.R.F. Addison VC (1883 - 1962) - Army Chaplain AND poet also awarded the Order of St George-Russia.
The Rev. Elijah Cobham, MC (1880 – 1917) – British Army Chaplain with the King's African Rifles Regiment in East Africa.
Reverend Captain Herbert Butler Cowl, MC (1887-1971) – Wesleyan Army Chaplain to the 23rd Infantry Division, 68th Brigade, in the British Army during the First World War - known as the "Half-shilling Curate"
Walter Ernest Dexter DSO, MC, DCM, MiD Australian Army Chaplain - served at Gallipoli with the 5th Battalion AIF and on the Western Front.
The Reverend Theodore Bayley Hardy, VC, MC, DSO (1863 – 1918) – Anglican Church Minister and School teacher who served as a British Army Chaplain in WW1
Chaplain the Reverend Rupert Edward Inglis (1863 – 1916) - England international rugby player, Anglican Rector and Military Chaplain
Rev. Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy MC (1883 –1929) aka Woodbine Willy; Army Chaplain and poet
Rev. Noel Mellish VC, MC
Rev. Hon. Maurice Berkeley Peel, MC and Bar (1873 - 1917) - British Anglican Church Minister and WW1 Chaplain - killed by a sniper on 14 May 1917 at Bullecourt while going out to rescue a wounded man
Rev. Basil Pemberton Plumptre, MC (1883 - 1917) – British Army Chaplain
Rev. David Railton MC (1884 – 1955) - British Army Chaplain who had the idea for creating a British Unknown Warrior memorial
Edward John Thompson, MC, MiD - Poet and Chaplain (1886 – 1946) – 7th Division, Mesopotamia
Rev. Morgan Watcyn-Williams, MC
Sportspeople
Sir Arthur Frederick Blakiston, 7th Baronet, MC (1892 - 1974) - International Rugby Union player and WW1 soldier
Christopher Bushell VC, DSO (1888 – 1918) – English sportsman and soldier
Morgan Maddox Morgan-Owen, DSO (1877 – 1950) - Wales football international and captain - WW1 soldier
Adrian Dura Stoop, MC (1883 - 1957) – English Rugby Player and WW1 soldier
