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A Pocket Guide to British Gallantry Awards
Author | : Peter Duckers |
Publisher | : Spink Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-07-11 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9781912667024 |
Over the ages and in all societies, gallantry in battle has been highly regarded, with the bravery of individuals and fighting forces being officially rewarded and publically recognised in a wide variety of ways, such as gifts of jewels or money, grants of land, promotions in rank or status etc. In Britain, it has been the practice since at least the mid-19C to award decorations - medals specifically conferred to reward bravery in action. With the growth of the British Empire in the late 19C, the waging of two World Wars, the campaigns that mark the end of Empire and a continuing UN and NATO role, Britain has produced a wide range of medals to reflect the gallantry of its own and Imperial fighting forces. Such rewards have been conferred upon men and women, in all theatres of war and amongst the whole range of its forces on the ground, in and under the sea, in the air and even "at home". This new Spink book offers an introductory guide to British and Imperial medals for gallantry which have appeared since 1854 and which continue to be awarded to this day, illustrating the type of action which has led to the award of the various medals over nearly 200 years.
British Military Medals
Author | : Peter Duckers |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2013-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473829836 |
Fully revised second edition of Peter Duckers best-selling guide to military medals. This second edition of Peter Duckers best-selling British Military Medals traces the history of medals and gallantry awards from Elizabethan times to the modern day, and it features an expert account of their design and production. Campaign and gallantry medals are a key to understanding - and exploring - British and imperial military history, and to uncovering the careers and exploits of individual soldiers. In a series of succinct and well-organized chapters he explains how medals originated, to whom they were awarded and how the practice of giving medals has developed over the centuries. His work is a guide for collectors and for local and family historians who want to learn how to use medals to discover the history of military units and the experiences of individuals who served in them.
British Gallantry Awards 1855-2000
Author | : Peter Duckers |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2011-10-20 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 074781175X |
British Gallantry Awards 1855-2000. This book surveys the British decorations and medals from the origins in the Crimean War of 1854-6 up to the end of the twentieth century.
Gallantry Medals & Decorations of the World
Author | : John D. Clarke |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2000-09-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473814510 |
This book is acknowledged as the only work dealing exclusively with the identification and description of international gallantry awards, past and present. The multitude of illustrations allows the reader to readily identify those awards most likely to be encountered. The work embraces forty-three countries and describes 270 decorations together with their various classes. A ten page ribbon chart shows 216 different world gallantry ribbons all in full colour.
British Gallantry Awards
Author | : P.E. Abbott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1981-09-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780903754255 |
For Bravery in the Field Great War British Army Recipients of the Military Medal 1914-1920 a Register
Author | : Peter Warrington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 2014-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781783311385 |
Instituted in March 1916 as an award for NCOs and men of the Army for acts of bravery. Later extended to women who showed bravery under fire. There was also a provision for the award of a bar for each further act of bravery. All MMs issued to British personnel are named, usually in impressed capitals, During the First World War some 115,000 awards were made, with 5,800 first bars and 180 second bars. There was one award of the MM and three bars. All issued MMs have a notification in the London Gazette. It is rare to find a citation for the Military Medal in the Gazettes It is possible that the reasons for the award will be found in the war diary of the man's unit. (available @ http: //www.nmarchive.com/ and on CD-ROM ). Also some details can appear in Regimental Histories and very rarely an original Divisional citation document that was given to the recipient will have survived. This register does NOT include Imperial troops, and Navy personnel.
British Concepts of Heroic "Gallantry" and the Sixties Transition
Author | : Matthew J. Lord |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 2021-05-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000382400 |
This book examines the relationship between concepts of heroic "gallantry," as projected by the British honours system, and the sociocultural, political, military and international transitions of the supposed Sixties "cultural revolution." In so doing, it considers how a conservative, hierarchical and state-orientated concept both evolved and endured during a period of immense change in which traditional assumptions of deference to elites were increasingly challenged. Covering the period often defined as "The Long Sixties," from 1955–79, this study concentrates on four distinct transitions undergone by both state and non-state gallantry awards, including developments within the welfare state, class and gender discrimination, counterinsurgency and decolonisation. It ultimately sheds fresh light upon the importance of postwar decades to the continued evolution of concepts of gallantry and heroism in British culture using a range of underexplored government and media archives. It will be of interest to scholars, students and general researchers of heroism in modern Britain, the Sixties revolution, postwar military history and both the social and political evolution of British honours, decorations and medals.
British Gallantry Awards, by P.E. Abbott & J.M.A. Tamplin
Author | : P. E. Abbott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Decorations of honour |
ISBN | : |
British Campaign Medals of the First World War
Author | : Peter Duckers |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 2011-10-20 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 0747811717 |
Britain has issued medals rewarding war service since at least the early nineteenth century, and increasingly through the period of its imperial expansion prior to 1914, but examples of many of the early types are now scarce. However, few families escaped some involvement with “the Great War” of 1914 18, and many still treasure the medals awarded to their ancestors for wartime service. Today, with a growing interest in British military history and particularly in family history and genealogy, more and more people want to trace their ancestors' past. This book looks in detail at the origin, types and varieties of the British medals awarded for general war service between 1914 and '18, and gives advice on researching the awards and their recipients.