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| Chesney Gold Medal | 1/1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesney_Gold_Medal | reference | science, encyclopedia | 2026-05-05T11:21:25.108004+00:00 | kb-cron |
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 ==