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Abstract: For over 100 years the Distinguished Conduct Medal - the DCM - was the second highest medal that could be awarded for gallantry to the other ranks of the British army and in some cases also the RAF and Royal Navy, yet the holders of this major award have rarely been given the recognition they deserve. And while the heroic exploits of recipients of the Victoria Cross have been the subject of repeated accounts, DCM holders have largely been ignored in print.But now in this graphic narrative history Matthew Richardson sets the record straight by describing the conspicuous courage of men who have been awarded the DCM in the Crimean and the colonial wars, in the two world wars, and during recent conflicts in the Falklands and the Gulf. Told often in their own words, their extraordinary acts of bravery and selfsacrifice are the central focus of his book. Characters such as Frank Bourne, who received the award for his conduct at Rorkes Drift, are celebrated here, as is John Brown who received his DCM for work inside a German prisoner of war camp in the Second World War, John Meredith who was awarded his DCM for leadership while a prisoner of the Japanese on the Burma railway, and Peter Ratcliffe who was given the DCM for an SAS mission in the Gulf. But alongside these famous names are the many, many other DCM holders of equal gallantry whom history has overlooked.Profusely illustrated with photographs from the authors collection including DCM holders from the Boer War, Gallipoli, the Western Front, and the battlefields of the Second World War, Matthew Richardsons book will appeal to everyone who is interested in British military history
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Allan, James, No Citation, Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1955
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Clift, Ken , The Soldier Who Never Grew Up, Sydney, 1976
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Farquharson, R S, Crimean Campaigning and Russian Imprisonment , W. & D. C. Thompson, Dundee, 1889
Feebery, David, Guardsman and Commando, Pen and Sword Military, Barnsley, 2008
Franki, George, Mad Harry, Kangaroo Press, Sydney, 2003
Gravel, Michel, Tough As Nails, CEF Books, 2005
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Lloyd, Brian , A Gallant Life, the story of an old soldier, Melbourne, 1998
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McCormac, C , You ll Die In Singapore, Robert Hale, 1954
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McNab, Andy, Bravo Two Zero, Corgi, 1994
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Moore, William , Panzer Bait, Leo Cooper, London 1991
Nabarro, D , Wait For The Dawn, Cassell & Co, London 1952
Ratcliffe, Peter , Eye of the Storm, Twenty-Five Years in Action with the SAS, Michael OMara Books Ltd, London, 2000
Richards, Frank, Old Soldiers Never Die, Faber and Faber, London 1933
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Williamson, Howard, The Great War Medal Collectors Companion , Anne Williamson, 2011
Wilson, Heather, Blue Bonnets, Boers & Biscuits, Heather Wilson, London 1998
Wong Sue, Jack , Blood on Borneo, Jack Wong Sue, Perth, Australia 2001
The Times , 27.12.1854
House of Commons Debates, 19 December 1854 vol 136 cc505-7
Ibid
London Gazette (LG), 12.12.1854
WO 97 (quoted DNW archive 29.06.2006)
Border Regiment archives (quoted DNW archive 06.07.2004)
Kinglake, Alexander William, The Invasion of the Crimea, volume VI (1880), p348
Farquharson, R S, Reminiscences of Crimean Campaigning and Russian Imprisonment (Quoted DNW archive 02.04.2004)
DNW archive 2.04.2004
Quoted in Tyrell, Henry, The History of the War With Russia Vol I , (nd) p333
George Loy Smith, A Victorian R.S.M. (1987)
Ibid
Charles Rathbone Lo, A Memoir of Lieutenant-General Sir Garnet J Wolseley , R Bentley: 1878, pp. 57-176
DNW archive 22.09.2006
DNW archive 04.07.2001
The Listener, British Broadcasting Corporation, December 1936
Hensman, Howard , The Afghan War of 1879-80, Allen & Co, London, 1882, p208
WO 97 (quoted DNW archive 01.12.2004)
G.G.O. 383/2 July 1880 (quoted DNW archive 27.06.2007)
DNW archive 27.06.2007
DNW archive 05.12.1995
LG, 03.12.1880
Grant, James, Cassells History of the War in the Soudan Vol 2, (nd), p130
Punch , 15 March 1884
DNW archive 09.12.1999
DNW archive 17.09.1999
WO 97 (quoted DNW archive)
St Georges Gazette , June 1899
St Georges Gazette , December 1899
LG, 24.01.1899
ADM 159/24
Downham, John, Red Roses on the Veldt (2000), p46
LG, 19.04.1901
LG, 08.02.1901
Wilson, Heather, Blue Bonnets Boers and Biscuits (1998), pp28-31
Morning Post, 22.05.1900
Churchill, Winston S, Letter 10.12.1913 (quoted DNW archive 07.07.2010)
Greenhill-Gardyne, C, The Life of a Regiment: The History of the Gordon Highlanders Vol 2 (1929)
Gretton , George Le Mesurier, Campaigns and History of the Royal Irish Regiment 1694-1902 (1911), p363
Gretton, op cit, pp364-365
DNW archive 17.09.1999
Witton, George, Scapegoats of the Empire (1907), ch 15
Witton, op cit, ch 20
LG, 11.12.1900
Ibid
The Antelope, May 1908
London Gazette (LG), 17.12.1914
LG, 19.08.1916
Charman, Alfred. Information printed on commercial postcard (authors collection)
LG, 16.01.1915
War Diary, 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment 09.11.1914 (http://www.bedfordregiment.org.uk/1stbn/1stbtn1914diary.html)
Chambers, Arthur, Manuscript diary 11.11.1914 (by permission of Leeds University Library)
LG, 16.01.1915
LG, 01.04.1915
Ibid
Shepherd, Frederick W Letter DNW archive 13.12.2007
LG, 05.08.1915
Humphries, Edward tape-recorded recollections 1972 (by permission of Leeds University Library)
Mossley and Saddleworth Reporter 01.08.1915
Irvine, William (junior), recollections as given to author (authors collection)
Daily Mirror 24.04.1915
LG, 05.08.1915
Ibid
LG, 05.08.1915
LG, 06.09.1915
Evans, Reginald, manuscript recollections (by permission of Leeds University Library)
LG, 25.01.1916
LG, 25.01.1916
Richards, Frank, Old Soldiers Never Die (1933), p153
Richards, op cit, pp142-3
Richards, op cit, pp152-3
McClintock, Alexander, Best OLuck (1917), pp70, 80-82
McCormock, op cit, pp83-85
McCormock, op cit, p88
LG, 22.09.1916
Vlok, Nicholas. South Africa magazine/ Rollcall (by permission of Ian Uys)
LG, 22.09.1916
LG, 14.11.1916
LG, 14.11.1916
LG, 05.08.1915
LG 21.10.1918
Gerrard, James, manuscript recollections (by permission of Leeds University Library)
LG, 03.09.1918
Ibid
DNW archive, 21.09.2007
LG, 5.12.1918
DNW archive, 20.09.2002
Curran, John, service papers WO 363
Ibid
Ibid
Ibid
Ibid
Melbourne Herald, 30.05 . 1915
LG, 15.09.1915
LG, 05.08.1915
LG, 01.05.1918
LG, 01.03.1918
LG, 15.03.1916
LG, 27.07.1916
LG, 05.11.1915
LG, 15.07.1919
LG, 15.07.1919
WO 363
LG, 06.11.1936
Moore, Maj Geoffrey MBE, Just As Good As The Rest (1976)
Ibid
The Green Tiger, August 1939
Sheppard, John, typescript recollections (authors collection)
DNW archive, 21.09.2007
Ibid
DNW archive, 2.03.2005
Ibid
Journal of the Orders and Medals Research Society, September 2006, Volume 45, Number 3 (272)
WO 344
WO 344
WO 344
Allan, James, No Citation (1955), p27
Allan, op cit, p28
Allan, op cit, p29
Allan, op cit , pp170-171
WO 373/93
Nabarro, Derrick, Wait For The Dawn (1952), pp5,10
Nabbarro, op cit , p68
Nabaro, op cit, p74
Nabaro, op cit , pp87-88
http://www.thesoutheastecho.co.uk/Pilots2/Wareing_P.htm
WO 344
WO 373/17
Richardson, Tom, mss letter (authors collection)
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