“MilitaryHistoryNow.com is kicking off a month of Tweets from some of history’s best-known ‘staches with this montage.”

MHN IS MARKING Movember this year with a salute to the most famous (and infamous) moustaches in military history.

Now in its 12^th year, Movember is an annual international fundraising phenomenon that aims to “change the face’ of men’s health” by drawing attention to everything from prostate and testicular cancer to depression and mental health. Men are encouraged to grow moustaches and fundraise during the month of November to support the cause. Since 2004, Movember has collected an estimated $174-million worldwide.

MilitaryHistoryNow.com is kicking off a month of Tweets from some of history’s best-known ‘staches with this montage.

If you’d like to put your money where your mouth is this Movember, here’s how to donate in your country.

Australia – https://au.movember.com/
Canada – https://ca.movember.com/
Great Britain – https://uk.movember.com/
Ireland – http://www.cancer.ie/get-involved/fundraise/major-fundraising-drives/movember
New Zealand – https://nz.movember.com/
South Africa – https://za.movember.com/
The United States – https://us.movember.com/about/foundation

John Joseph “Black Jack” Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Force in France during World War One. (Image source: WikiCommons)

Charles de Gaulle. (Image source: WikiCommons)

Hernan Cortes looking every inch the villain. (Image source: WikiCommons)

Hideki Tojo, commander of the Imperial Japanese Army and prime minister. (Image source: WikiCommons)

You could knit a sweater from the Earl of Caridgan’s whiskers. Lieutenant-General James Thomas Brudenell is perhaps best known for leading the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War. (Image source: WikiCommons)

Killer hat! Anton Ludwig August von Mackensen in his famous Death’s Head Hussar uniform. (Image source: WikiCommons)

Prussia’s Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher was nicknamed “Marshal Forward” by his troops because of his aggressive style of fighting. (Image source: WikiCommons)

The always dashing P.G.T. Beauregard of the Confederate States Army. (Image source: WikiCommons)

Austria Hungary’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand. (Image source: WikiCommons)

Jo Stalin. (Image source: German Federal Archive)

George “Little Mac” McClellan, commander of the Union Army 1861-62. (Image source: WikiCommons)

When 20-year-old Galusha Pennypacker was promoted to brigadier in 1864, he became the youngest general in American history. The moustache made him look older. (Image source: WikiCommons)

Eric von Falkenhayn, the Kaiser’s chief of the General Staff in 1914. (Image source: WikiCommons)

Ho Chi Minh. (Image source: WikiCommons)

Lord Kitchener.

Gavrila Princip, 19, was barely old enough to shave when he shot the Archduke Franz Ferdinand touching off the First World War. (Image source: WikiCommons)

Che Guevara, that face that launched a thousand shirts. (Image source: WikiCommons)

Whether he was a lion or a donkey, BEF commander General Sir Douglas Haig had a smashing set of whiskers. (Image source: WikiCommons)

Heinrich Himmler. (Image source: German Federal Archive)

Lawrence Chamberlain of the 20th Maine is best known for his defence of Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg. (Image source: WikiCommons)

Henri Philippe Pétain was known as the Lion of Verdun. He later became a Vichy turncoat. (Image source: WikiCommons)

The flamboyant George Armstrong Custer. (Image source: WikiCommons)

Genghis Khan. (Image source: WikiCommons)

Vercingetorix’s moustache had a lot of Gaul! (Image source: WikiCommons)

The last French emperor, Napoleon III. (Image source: WikiCommons)

Ambrose P. Burnside’s sideburns took on a life of their own. (Image source: WikiCommons)

William of Normandy. (Image source: WikiCommons)

Hitler’s iconic moustache was often called a Rotzbremse or ‘snot brake’. (Image source: WikiCommons)

Kaiser Wilhelm II. (Image source: WikiCommons)