| FLEETAIRARM | Flying forces in the Royal Navy (5,3,3) |
| MARLBOROUGH | The Duke of --was commander of British forces in the War of the Spanish Succession (11) |
| REARADMIRAL | Flag officer in the Royal Navy |
| CONCERTINAS | Currently, notices are seen in the Royal Navy about such instruments |
| SEALTEAMSIX | Navy special force in the bin Laden raid |
| AGENTORANGE | Highly poisonous herbicide used as a spray for defoliation by US forces in the Vietnam War (5,6) |
| VICEMARSHAL | Air --- ---, senior RAF officer of equivalent rank to a rear admiral in the Royal Navy (4-7) |
| SOLDIER | The American ___ community representing the U.S. forces in the Iraq War which was declared as the Time Person of the Year in 2003 |
| STAFF | The professional head of the armed forces in the UK holds the office of Chief of the Defence ... |
| MERRIMAC | An iron-clad vessel built by the Confederate forces in the hope of breaking the blockade imposed by the North. |
| DOODLEBUG | Nickname for the jet- propelled V-1 missile used by German forces in the Second World War, also known as the flying bomb (9) |
| SYMONDS | Surveyor of the Navy in the Royal Navy |
| MACARTHUR | General Douglas who was the supreme commander of the Allied forces in the southwest Pacific during W |
| REDS | The Bolshevik forces in the Russian civil war are often referred to as the ___ (4) |
| KITCHENER | Field marshal who in 1900 became overall commander of the British forces in the Second Boer War (9) |
| SPIONKOP | The Battle of ?, conflict in January 1900 between Boer and British forces in the Second Boer War |
| SPION | & 12D The Battle of -, conflict in January 1900 between Boer and British forces in the Second Boer War (5,3) |
| BARCELONA | Picasso's Spanish city which fell to the Nationalist forces in the Civil War in January 1939 |
| BADAJOZ | City in Extremadura, captured by British forces in the Peninsular War |
| ALFRESCO | The French returning with irregular forces in the open air (8) |
