Lt. Hilary Aidan Saint George Saunders, a British author, was commissioned into the Welsh Guards and served with 1st battalion on the Western Front during World War I. He was awarded the Military Cross for an action on 6 November 1918 near Bavay in northern France. [Source: Wikipedia]
Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (born Prince Louis of Battenberg)—known informally as Lord Mountbatten—was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II. During the Second World War, he was Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command (1943-46).