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The Chesney Gold Medal is an award given by the Royal United Services Institute awarded to "any especially eminent work calculated to advance the military sciences and knowledge".


== List of Medallists ==
The following people have received the Chesney Gold Medal:

1900: Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan USN
1907: Major General Sir John Frederick Maurice
1909: The Hon J.W. Fortescue
1910: Sir John Knox Laughton
1911: Professor C.W.C. Oman
1913: Colonel Sir Lonsdale Augustus Hale
1914: Sir Julian Corbett
1919: Major General E.D. Swinton
1921: Major General Sir Charles Callwell
1924: Professor G.A.R. Callender
1925: Captain Sir George Arthur
1926: Vice Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond
1927: Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds
1928: L.G. Carr-Laughton
1929: Colonel H.C. Wylly
1930: C.E.W. Bean
1931: Commander C.N. Robinson
1932: Colonel C. de W. Crookshank MP
1936: Professor Spenser Wilkinson
1950: The Rt Hon Winston Churchill
1955: Sir Arthur Bryant
1963: Major General J.F.C. Fuller and Captain Basil Liddell Hart
1965: Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Slessor
1968: Professor Arthur J. Marder
1973: Professor Michael Howard
1975: Captain Stephen W. Roskill RN
1981: John Terraine and Ronald Lewin
1985: General Sir John Hackett
1991: Correlli Barnett
1997: Henry Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey
2000: Baroness Thatcher
2006: Sir Lawrence Freedman
2013: General David H. Petraeus


== References ==