Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | 1st United States Congress | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | brigade | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham | Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister | Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell | John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon | Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux | Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset | Charge of the Light Brigade | Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester | Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom) | Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester | Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley | Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig | George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle | Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg | Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon | Brigade | William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim | Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet |
Operation Husky began on the night of 9 July with an airborne assault by 1st Airlanding Brigade and 1st Parachute Brigade of 1st Airborne Division, and elements of the American 82nd Airborne Division with both divisions suffering heavy losses in men and equipment as they carried out their objectives.