page_title: Lists of Canadians
section_title: Military figures
hierarchical_section_title: Lists of Canadians / Military figures
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of John McCrae, author of "In Flanders Fields"
context_page_description: This is a list of Canadians, people who are identified with Canada through residential, legal, historical, or cultural means, grouped by their area of notability.
context_section_description: General Maurice Baril OMM CD (born 1943) – Military Advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General, head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations, and Chief of the Defence Staff
  Gustave Biéler DSO MBE (1904–1944) – Special Operations Executive agent, executed by the Nazis
  Air Commodore Leonard Birchall CM OBE DFC OOnt CD DMSc (hc) LLD (hc) (1915–2004) – war hero
  Air Marshall Billy Bishop VC CB DSO* MC DFC ED (1894–1956) (commonly known as Billy Bishop)  –World War I flying ace
  Brigadier-General Jean Boyle CMM CD (born 1947) – fighter pilot, and businessman
  Major General Sir Isaac Brock KB (1769–1812) – War of 1812 general
  Captain Roy Brown DSC* RNAS (1893–1944) – World War I fighter pilot officially credited with shooting down the Red Baron
  Colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave DSO* (1890–1971) – Canadian signatory to the Japanese Instrument of Surrender
  General Harry Crerar CH CB DSO CD PC (1888–1965) – "leading field commander" in World War II
  Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Currie KCB GCMG (1875–1933) – first Canadian commander of the Canadian Expeditionary Force
  Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire OC CMM GOQ MSC CD LLD (hc) ScDHum (hc) DHL (hc) (born 1946) – UN peacekeeping General, attempted to prevent the Rwandan genocide
  Guy D'Artois DSO GM (1917–1999) – SOE agent, recipient of the Croix de Guerre
  General John de Chastelain CH OC CMM CD LLD (hc) ScDMil (hc) FLMH (born 1937) – head of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning
  Peter Dmytruk (1920–1943) – WWII Flight Sergeant and member of the French Resistance
  Brigadier-General Dury, Charles PC OC QC CBE DSO (1912–1991) – soldier, businessman, and politician
  John Weir Foote VC CD (1904–1988) – military chaplain, Ontario cabinet minister, and recipient of the Victoria Cross
  Captain Nichola Goddard MSM (1980–2006) – first female Canadian soldier killed in combat
  William Hall VC (1827–1904) – first Nova Scotian recipient of the Victoria Cross
  John Kenneth Macalister (1914–1944) – SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
  Vice-Admiral Bruce MacLean CMM, CD – Chief of the Maritime Staff from 2004 to 2006
  Captain Simon Mailloux (born 1983) – first Canadian soldier with an amputation to deploy on a combat mission; recipient of the Sacrifice Medal
  Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae (1872–1918) – soldier, poet, author of In Flanders' Fields
  Alan Arnett McLeod VC (1899–1918) – fighter pilot, youngest Canadian-born winner of the Victoria Cross
  General Andrew McNaughton CH CB CMG DSO CD PC (1887–1966) – Co-Minister of Defence during World War II
  Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Meighen (1905–1979) – lawyer and philanthropist
  Lieutenant Colonel Charles Merritt VC (1908–2000) – recipient of the Victoria Cross
  Major General Sydney Chilton Mewburn PC (1863–1956) – lawyer and politician, Minister of Militia and Defence
  Minnie "Jerri" Mumford (1909–2002) – serving member of the Canadian Women's Army Corps (CWAC) during World War II
  Rear Admiral Leonard W. Murray (1896–1971) – Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Northwest Atlantic during World War II
  Henry Norwest MM & Bar (1884–1918) – sniper in World War I
  Lieutenant-Colonel George Pearkes VC PC CC CB DSO MC CD (1888–1984) – recipient of the Victoria Cross, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
  Francis Pegahmagabow MM** (1891–1952) – the most highly decorated aboriginal Canadian soldier of World War I
  Frank Pickersgill (1915–1944) – SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
  Rear Admiral Desmond Piers CM DSC CD ScDMil (hc) (1913–2005) – war hero
  George Lawrence Price (1898–1918) – last soldier killed in World War I
  Tommy Prince MM (1915–1977) – one of Canada's most decorated soldiers, member of the Devil's Brigade
  James Ralston PC (1881–1948) – Co-Minister of Defence during World War II
  Thomas Ricketts VC (1901–1967) – recipient of the Victoria Cross (Newfoundlander at the time of his award)
  Harold A. Rogers OC OBE (1889–1994) – founder of Kin Canada
  Roméo Sabourin (1923–1944) – SOE agent, executed by the Nazis
  General Guy Simonds CC CB CBE DSO CD (1903–1974) – commander of the II Canadian Corps
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caption: John McCrae
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