Billy Bishop was a leading ace of the First World War, won the Victoria Cross and helped to create the Canadian Flying Corps.
Charles Merritt was a lawyer and militia officer who won the Victoria Cross at Dieppe during the Second World War.
John de Chastelain was twice Chief of Defence Staff and helped to monitor the Peace Accords in Northern Ireland.
[1] During the Convocation Ceremony on Wednesday 14 May, H24263 Dr. John S. Cowan said to the Class of 2008 "Of the first 170 cadets who entered RMC from 1876 to 1883 eight received knightships for feats of leadership in many fields of endeavor on at least four continents."
Kate Armstrong, CD OBE in 1942 for his bravery during World War II while serving with the besieged forces in Singapore; spent 31⁄2 years in a Japanese POW camp; owned a Gothic Revival stone mansion named Ker Cavan c. 1850 in Guelph, Ontario as a summer home 1945–48; listed on the Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute Wall of Fame Shown with college numbers.