List of New Zealand military personnel

The following is a list of notable New Zealand people associated with the military, including those who saw active service in New Zealand.

New Zealand Wars

• Duncan Alexander Cameron - British General in the Second Taranaki War
• Hone Heke - Ngapuhi tribal chief
• Hongi Hika - first military leader of the Musket Wars
• William Odgers VC - first man to win the Victoria Cross in the New Zealand land wars
• Thomas Simson Pratt - British commander in the First Taranaki War
• Kepa Te Rangihiwinui - Maori leader on British side in the Taranaki Wars
• Beauchamp Seymour, 1st Baron Alcester - British naval commander in New Zealand, 1860-1861

Boer War

• Edward Chaytor - commanded Second and Eighth Contingents
• William James Hardham - awarded Victoria Cross
• Alfred William Robin - commanded First Contingent

World War I

• Leslie Cecil Lloyd Averill - Platoon Commander and first New Zealander to scale the walls of Le Quesnoy
• Ronald Bannerman - World War I fighter ace
• Harold Beamish DSC - World War I fighter ace
• Charles Henry Brown - officer who served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front
• Thomas Culling - the first New Zealand fighter ace of World War I
• James Lloyd Findlay - soldier and fighter pilot
• Herbert Ernest Hart - officer who served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front
• Francis Earl Johnston - officer who served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front
• George Napier Johnston - Commander Royal Artillery of the New Zealand Division
• George Augustus King - officer who served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front
• William George Malone - officer who was killed in action at Gallipoli
• Charles Melvill - officer who served on the Western Front, later Commandant of New Zealand Military Forces
• Arthur Plugge - officer who served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front
• Alfred William Robin - Commandant, New Zealand Military Forces
• Andrew Hamilton Russell - Commander, New Zealand Division
• William Sinclair-Burgess - New Zealand officer serving with Australian forces
• James Waddell - New Zealand soldier serving with the French Foreign Legion
• Bright Williams - last surviving New Zealand Soldier of the First World War
• William Thomas Beck - First New Zealand soldier ashore at Gallipoli

World War II

(some served also in World War I)

• Fred Baker - Commander, 28th Maori Battalion
• Harold Eric Barrowclough - Commander, 3rd New Zealand Division
• Sir Roderick Carr - RAF Bomber Command and Chief of the Indian Air Force
• Sir Arthur Coningham - RAF Second Tactical Air Force commander
• Bill Crawford-Crompton - RAF Fighter ace
• Dan Davin - 2NZEF officer and author of war history
• John Evelyn Duigan - Chief of General Staff, New Zealand Military Forces, from 1937 to 1941
• Geoffrey Bryson Fisken - RNZAF Fighter ace, initially on Brewster Buffalo
• Baron Freyberg of Wellington - Commander, 2NZEF and 2nd New Zealand Division; later Governor-General of New Zealand
• Colin Falkland Gray - RAF Fighter ace
• Thomas W. Horton - Commander of No 105 RAF Pathfinder squadron
• Alfred Hulme - awarded the Victoria Cross
• Lindsay Merritt Inglis - senior officer who served with the 2NZEF in Greece, Crete, North Africa and Italy
• Edgar James "Cobber" Kain - RAF fighter ace (first pilot to win a DFC in World War II)
• Howard Karl "Kip" Kippenberger - Commander, 2nd New Zealand Division
• Owen Mead - senior officer who served with the 2NZEF
• Reginald Miles - senior officer who served with the 2NZEF in Greece and North Africa
• Sir Keith Park - No. 11 Group RAF commander during the Battle of Britain; later commanded in Malta and Southeast Asia
• Graham Beresford Parkinson - senior officer who served with the 2NZEF in Greece, North Africa and Italy
• John Pattison - RAF Fighter pilot
• Sir Peter Phipps - founding Chief of Defence Staff
• Edward Puttick - senior officer who served with the 2NZEF in Greece and Crete' later Chief of General Staff, New Zealand Military Forces, from 1941 to 1945
• William George Stevens - senior officer who served with the 2NZEF
• Keith Lindsay Stewart - senior officer who served with the 2NZEF in Greece, Crete and Italy
• Leonard Trent - World War II pilot, Victoria Cross recipient
• Lloyd Alan Trigg - World War II pilot, only person awarded the VC solely on recommendation of the enemy
• Charles Upham - World War II soldier, one of three awarded the Victoria Cross twice but the only combat soldier to receive it twice
• Nancy Wake - the most decorated servicewoman of World War II
• James Allen Ward - VC-winning sergeant pilot of 75 Squadron RNZAF
• Norman Weir - senior officer who served with the 2NZEF;later Chief of General Staff, New Zealand Military Forces, from 1946 to 1949

Post-WWII

• Denis Barnett - Commander, British Forces Cyprus
• Sir William Gentry - Chief of Staff of New Zealand services

See also

• List of World War II aces from New Zealand
• Military history of New Zealand
• New Zealand Defence Force#Previous Chiefs