Old Sedgwickians, RJT Digby-Jones at Wagon Hill in 1900 in the Boer War, George Ward Gunn at Sidi Rezegh in 1941 and Kenneth Campbell over Brest Harbour, also in 1941. Four Battle of Britain pilots attended the school. Pilot Officer Desmond Kay DFC & Bar, Pilot Officer Noel Benson were killed during the war, but Flt Lt Kenneth Stoddart AE, and Flying Officer Alec Worthington survived. Headmasters Notable Old Sedberghians Military Major General Henry Templer Alexander CB CBE DSO, Army Commander Lt-Colonel John William Balfour Paul, DSO, Scottish Officer of Arms Major General "Jock" Campbell VC DSO and Bar MC, a commander of the 7th Armoured Division and recipient of the Victoria Cross Flying Officer Kenneth Campbell VC, Royal Air Force pilot and recipient of the Victoria Cross General Sir Robert Archibald Cassels, GCB GCSI DSO, Indian Army officer Colonel Freddie Spencer Chapman DSO and Bar ED, naturalist, mountaineer, explorer, war hero Group Captain Walter Myers Churchill DSO DFC, Royal Air Force, Second World War Air Commodore Duncan le Geyt Pitcher CMG, CBE, DSO, RAF, Army and Royal Air Force Lieutenant Robert James Thomas Digby-Jones VC, Royal Engineers Officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross Lieutenant-General Sir Andrew Richard Gregory KBE CB, British Army officer Second Lieutenant George Ward Gunn VC MC, Royal Horse Artillery Officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross Major David F. O. Russell MC FRSE, 20th century businessman, philanthropist and noted war hero Major-General Jonathan David Shaw CB CBE, British Army officer and Assistant Chief of Defence Staff Admiral Sir Jock Slater GCB LVO DL, First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff General Sir John Stuart Mackenzie Shea GCB KCMG DSO, British Army officer Wing Commander Sir Kenneth Stoddart KCVO KStJ AE JP LLD, Battle of Britain pilot Major General Michael Walsh CB DSO, British Army Officer and Chief Scout Politics and law William George Ainslie, ironmaster and MP for North Lonsdale 1885–1892 Glencairn Balfour Paul CMG, British Ambassador to Iraq, Jordan and Tunisia Thomas Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill, Senior Law Lord, former Master of the Rolls and Lord Chief Justice Brendan Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken, Politician, businessman and associate of Winston Churchill. Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart, OBE, Chairman of the Local Government Association Sir Alan Chambré, English judge Sir Hugh Cortazzi, Author, diplomat and prominent Japanologist Sir Maurice Dorman, Governor-General of Sierra Leone and Colonial Governor of Malta Richard Bostock Dorman CBE, Diplomat