The Chesney Gold Medal is an award given by the
Royal United Services Institute
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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:
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* 1900: Captain
Alfred Thayer Mahan
Alfred Thayer Mahan (; September 27, 1840 – December 1, 1914) was a United States naval officer and historian, whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century." His book '' The Influence of Sea Power ...
USN
* 1907: Major General Sir
John Frederick Maurice
Major-General Sir John Frederick Maurice (24 May 1841 – 12 January 1912) was a senior British Army officer, chiefly remembered for his military writings.
Family and early life
Maurice was born in Southwark, London in 1841, the eldest son of R ...
* 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
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* 1926: Vice Admiral Sir
Herbert Richmond
Admiral Sir Herbert William Richmond, (15 September 1871 – 15 December 1946) was a prominent Royal Navy officer, described as "perhaps the most brilliant naval officer of his generation." He was also a top naval historian, known as the "Briti ...
* 1927: Brigadier-General Sir
James E. Edmonds
* 1928:
L.G. Carr-Laughton
* 1929: Colonel
H.C. Wylly
* 1930: Dr
C.E.W. Bean
* 1931: Commander
C.N. Robinson
* 1932: Colonel
C. de W. Crookshank MP
* 1936: Professor
Spenser Wilkinson
Henry Spenser Wilkinson (1 May 1853 in Hulme, Manchester – 31 January 1937 in Oxford) was the first Chichele Professor of Military History at Oxford University. While he was an English writer known primarily for his work on military subjects, he ...
* 1950: The Rt Hon
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 Winston Churchill in the Second World War, dur ...
* 1955: Sir
Arthur Bryant
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* 1963: Major General
J.F.C. Fuller
Major-General John Frederick Charles "Boney" Fuller (1 September 1878 – 10 February 1966) was a senior British Army officer, military historian, and strategist, known as an early theorist of modern armoured warfare, including categorising pr ...
and Captain
Basil Liddell Hart
* 1965: Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir
John Slessor
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Cotesworth Slessor, (3 June 1897 – 12 July 1979) was a senior commander in the Royal Air Force (RAF), serving as Chief of the Air Staff from 1950 to 1952. As a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps du ...
* 1968: Professor
Arthur J. Marder
* 1973: Professor
Michael Howard
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* 1975: Captain
Stephen W. Roskill RN
* 1981:
John Terraine
John Alfred Terraine (15 January 1921 – 28 December 2003
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and
Ronald Lewin
George Ronald Lewin CBE (11 October 1914 – 6 January 1984), later known as Ronald Lewin, was a British officer, publishing editor, radio producer and military historian.
Education
Lewin attended University of Oxford at The Queens College on an ...
* 1985: General Sir
John Hackett
* 1991:
Correlli Barnett
Correlli Douglas Barnett CBE FRHistS FRSL FRSA (28 June 1927 – 10 July 2022) was an English military historian, who also wrote works of economic history, particularly on the United Kingdom's post-war "industrial decline".
Early life
Barnett ...
* 1997:
Henry Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey
George Charles Henry Victor Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey (8 October 1922 – 13 July 2013), styled Earl of Uxbridge until 1947, was a British peer and a military historian.
Biography
Henry Paget was the son of Charles Paget, 6th Marquess ...
* 2000:
Baroness Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (; 13 October 19258 April 2013) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the first female British prime ...
* 2006: Sir
Lawrence Freedman
Sir Lawrence David Freedman, (born 7 December 1948) is a British academic, historian and author with specialising in foreign policy, international relations and strategy. He has been described as the "dean of British strategic studies" and wa ...
* 2013: General
David H. Petraeus
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References
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