38 Peacemakers Who Were Soldiers Click here for return to worldwide list of notable peacemakers (& for meaning of symbols). Click here for conscientious objectors.

1075-1115 - Magnus Erlendsson - First Earl of Orkney. Saint Magnus. Refused to fight in a Viking raid on Anglesey, stayed on board ship singing psalms. First CO?

1584-1647 - Prince Frederick-Henry - Warrior, "Bringer of Peace" & founder of the Golden Age. Surrounded by peace symbols in paintings of Oranjezaal/Orange Hall, The Hague.

1800

1832-1913 - Jacobus Catharinus Cornelis den Beer Poortugael - General & statesman. Authority on laws of war. Attended many conferences including 1st Hague Peace Conf in 1899. Conf

1847-1898 - Christoph Moritz von Egidy - Prussian officer, pacifist, Christian reformer & moral philosopher. Wrote "I Have Dared It." Memorial in Potsdam. P

1850

1857-1941 - Robert Baden-Powell - Army officer. Founded the Scout Movement in 1907. See Juliette Gordon Low.

1879-1958 - Lionel Charlton - Air Commodore in Royal Air Force (RAF). Objected to bombing of Iraqi villages in 1923. CO

1881-1920 - Hans Paasche - Navy officer, politician, big game hunter & "combative pacifist." Attempted to change the Prussian Deutschland-über-alles military mindset. P
1881-1940 - Smedley D. Butler - US Marine Corps major general. Became outspoken critic of wars. Exposed the "Business Plot" (a purported plan to overthrow the US government) in 1933.

1883-1963 - Rudolf Gunst - Lieutenant on Western Front in WW-I, then a municipal official. Catholic peace movement activist. Persecuted by Nazis. P Named by Gerard Lössbroek.

1886-1967 - Siegfried Sassoon - Author & soldier. A leading poet of WW-I. Described horrors of trenches. Satirised those responsible for a vainglorious war.
1886-1978 - Armin T. Wegner - Soldier & medic in WW-I. Prolific author & human rights activist. "Core witness of the Armenian Genocide." P Named by Gerard Lössbroek.

1891-1916 - Harry Farr - British soldier. Executed for cowardice at age 25 during World War I. "Shot at Dawn" memorial unveiled by his daughter in 2001.
1893-1918 - Wilfred Owen - Soldier. Leading poet of WW-I. Wrote on horrors of trenches & gas warfare.
1893-1939 - Ernst Toller - Anarchist & playwright. 13 months on Western Front. Briefly president of Bravarian Soviet Republic. Exiled in 1933. Committed suicide in NYC.
1893-1966 - Steven King-Hall - Naval officer, writer, politician & playwright. Named by Peter van den Dungen.

1895-1985 - Robert Graves - Poet, soldier, novelist & scholar/translator/writer of antiquity. Wrote "Goodbye to All That," a memoire about his role in WW-I.

1896-1978 - Truus Wijsmuller-Meijer - War hero & resistance fighter. Probably 2nd greatest savior of Jews (after Raoul Wallenberg).

1898-1970 - Erich Maria Remarque - Wrote anti-war "All Quiet on the Western Front" in 1929 & Three Comrades in 1936.

1900

1907-1944 - Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg - Army officer. Central figure of Resistance movement within the Wehrmacht.
1907-1945 - Helmuth James Graf von Moltke - As a draftee acted to subvert German human-rights abuses. Jurist. Resisted Hitler. Home is now Conf Ctr for European Understanding.

1916-1945 - George Maduro - Born in Curaçao. Student & army officer. Nazi resister. Madurodam Miniature City in The Hague is named for him.

1917-1997 - Michael Harbottle - Brigadier. Chief of Staff of UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus 1966-68. Peace campaigner. Named by Peter van den Dungen.

1923-1992 - Gert Bastian - Military officer Politician with German Green Party. Partner of Petra Kelly (qv). Named by Peter van den Dungen.

1926-Alive - Charles (Chuck) Overby - US Air Force in Korean War. Professor at Ohio University. Founded Article 9 Society in the USA re Japanese constitution. Named by Peter van den Dungen.

1937-Alive - Edward W. Lollis - Commissioned US Army Reserve 1959. Active duty 1st Infantry Division 1961-63. US Foreign Service 1963-87. Author of THIS website.

1941-Alive - S. Brian Wilson - US Air Force Captain in Vietnam, peace activist & attorney-at-law. Received Courage of Conscience Award from the Peace Abbey in 1992.

1946-Alive - Roméo Dellaire - General, senator & humanitarian. UN peacekeeper in Rwanda. Ordered not to stop Hutu/Tutsi genocide in 1994.

1947-2007 - David Cline - Soldier in Vietnam 1967-68. Joined Vietnam Veterans Against the War in 1970. National President of Veterans For Peace (VFP) 2000-06.

1950

c1960-Alive - Robert Green - Commander in Royal Navy (UK) 1962-82. Co-Director, Disarmament and Security Centre in New Zealand. Husband of Kate Dewes (qv). Named by Peter van den Dungen.

1964-Alive - Daniel L. Davis - US Army Lt. Colonel & whistleblower. Led one-man campaign to show Afganistan war going disastrously & senior military leaders not leveling with US public.

1977-Alive - Ben Griffin - British SAS soldier 1997-2007. Refused to return to Iraq, citing "illegal" tactics of US troops. Founded Veterans for Peace UK.

1979-2014 - Tomas Young - Soldier. Enlisted right after 9/11. Paralyzed by bullet in Iraq. One of first vets to oppose the War in Iraq. Subject of documentary "Body of War."

1980-Alive - Paul K. Chappell - Peace advocate. US Army officer 2002-09. Wrote "Will War Ever End?" & "The End of War."

1983-Alive - Kimberly Rivera - Iraq War resister. First female US military deserter to flee to Canada. Deported in 2012. Designated a Prisoner of Conscience by Amnesty International. CO

1987-Alive - Chelsea Manning - US Army. Né Bradley. Leaked largest ever set of classified documents to WikiLeaks (pub. Apr-Nov 2010). Received IPB & USPM peace prizes in 2013.

1993-Alive - Matt Young - Enlisted in US Army after 9/11, but his Anabaptist religion drove him to become a pacifist. P