page_title: List of Durham University people
section_title: Military personnel
hierarchical_section_title: List of Durham University people / Military personnel
caption_attribution_description: English: Close-up of General Sir Richard Dannatt at an Armed Forces Day parade in Southend, Essex, England
context_page_description: This is a list of people associated with Durham University, divided for user convenience into multiple subcategories. This includes alumni, those who have taught there, conducted research there or played a part in its founding. Durham is a collegiate university, so where known and if applicable, they are shown alongside their associated college. For reasons of brevity, alumni of University College, St Cuthbert's Society and Trevelyan College are written with the shorter, more informal names of Castle, Cuths and Trevs respectively.
  Note that college membership was not always compulsory. From Epiphany term of 1871 the university, as a way of lowering the cost of studying at Durham, began to admit students without the need to join a college or hall – an innovation that may have been influenced by Oxford's decision to admit non-collegiate students in 1868. This change proved popular, and between 1870/71 and 1890/91 the 'Unattached Members' were 28% of entrants. Some students who read for higher degrees, like the geologist Gillian Foulger, did not join a college either. Alumni who did not take up membership of a college or society are therefore listed as Unattached.
context_section_description: Major-General Harold Henry Blake (Armstrong) – senior officer, Royal Army Medical Corps
  Rear Admiral Andrew Burns (Hatfield) – currently Commander United Kingdom Maritime Forces
  Rear Admiral Alex Burton – (Castle) Commander United Kingdom Maritime Forces (2016–2017)
  General Mark Carleton-Smith (Hatfield) – Chief of the General Staff
  Air Vice Marshall Jonathan Chaffey (St Chad's/St John's) – Anglican priest and military chaplain, formerly Chaplain-in-Chief of the Royal Air Force Chaplains Branch
  Captain Hugh Clark (King's) – won Military Cross for actions during Operation Varsity
  General Sir Richard Dannatt, Baron Dannatt (Hatfield) – current Constable of the Tower; former Chief of General Staff of the British Army
  Major-General Felix Gedney – Commanding officer, Operation Inherent Resolve task force
  Group Captain Campbell Hoy (Armstrong) – flying ace, 11 aerial victories
  Rear Admiral Amjad Hussain (Collingwood) – British Royal Navy (first Admiral from an ethnic-minority group and the highest ranking ethnic-minority officer in the UK armed forces)
  Vice Admiral Sir Richard Jeffrey Ibbotson (Grey) – former Naval Secretary and Deputy Commander-in-Chief Fleet
  Rear Admiral Clive Johnstone (Hild Bede) – Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff
  Vice Admiral Tony Johnstone-Burt (Van Mildert) – Chief of Staff to NATO's Supreme Allied Command Transformation
  Flight Lieutenant Thomas Kerr (Castle) – Pilot, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve; later Director of Royal Aircraft Establishment, 1980–1984
  Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence (Castle) – Vice-Admiral of the Royal Navy, husband of Princess Anne
  Major-General John Craig Lawrence (Castle) – former Chief of Staff at Directorate of Joint Warfare
  Lieutenant General Richard Nugee (Grey) – currently Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff
  Rear Admiral Matthew John Parr (Hatfield) – Commander Operations (Royal Navy)
  Alan Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland – army officer
  Major-General Peter Grant Peterkin (Hatfield) – former Sergeant at Arms and Military Secretary
  Lieutenant-General Timothy Radford (St Chad's) – Commander Allied Rapid Reaction Corps and former Chief of Staff, International Security Assistance Force HQ (Afghanistan)
  Air Chief Marshal Sir James Milne Robb – senior Royal Air Force commander; former Air Chief Marshal; Vice-Chief of the Air Staff; Inspector-General of the RAF
  Air Vice Marshal Adam Henry Robson (Armstrong) – officer in the Royal Air Force and Director of Educational Services for the RAF
  Vice Admiral Sir David George Steel (Grey) – former Second Sea Lord
  Major-General John Christopher Blake Sutherell (Grey) – former Director Special Forces
  Major-General Robert Talbot Rice – Director Land Equipment, Defence Equipment and Support, 2016–2017
  Air Commodore Joy Tamblin – Director of the Women's Royal Air Force
  Air Vice Marshal Garry Tunnicliffe – Defence Services Secretary, 2016–2019
  John Vane, 11th Baron Barnard – army officer, Lord Lieutenant of Durham
  Michael Osborne Waddell – army officer, won Military Cross for his actions during Operation Husky
  Air Marshal Peter Brett Walker (Hatfield) – former assistant Chief of Staff at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe; current Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey
caption: Baron Dannatt, Constable of the Tower of London
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