Sentences with phrase «gallantry award»
In November 2013 — on Armistice Day — Lord Ashcroft unveiled a new website giving details of his collection of Victoria Crosses (VCs), Britain and the Commonwealth's most prestigious gallantry award for bravery in the face of the enemy.
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Two West Yorkshire Police officers, Pc Craig Nicholls and Pc Jonathan Wright, who arrested Mair have been awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal.
The book also provides an insight into how the VC, Britain's most prestigious award for gallantry, was created in January 1856, towards the end of the Crimean War.
Trump today awarded his first Medal of Honor as president to Vietnam veteran James McCloughan of the US Army for «conspicuous gallantry during the Vietnam War.»
The book tells the remarkable stories behind the world's largest private collection of medals for gallantry in the air that were awarded to more than 80 British, Commonwealth and other Allied airmen.
He disclosed that there was little or non-issue with indiscipline in the theatre as 15,000 soldiers had been awarded medals of excellence in the theatre of operation for patriotism and gallantry.
Washington (CNN)- President Obama will award the Medal of Honor to U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert J. Miller for «conspicuous gallantry» and «heroic actions» in Afghanistan in January 2008, the White House announced Thursday.
Jade Village Restaurant in Chestnut Ridge, Rockland County was the place of choice for the Medal of Honor Delegation for MSG Juan E. Negron, posthumously awarded this unique combat decoration after 67 years, for gallantry above and beyond the call of duty after he answered his country's call for citizen...
This last act of heroism has been memorialized for eternity by awarding Gander the Dickin Medal for «acts of conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in wartime.»