Military Medal - Notable Recipients of The Military Medal

Notable Recipients of The Military Medal

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Over 135,000 people have been awarded the Military Medal. Among the more notable recipients are:

  • Walter Bingham Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who served in Normandy and subsequently in Counter Intelligence
  • Ian Bailey, who was awarded the medal as a Corporal in The Parachute Regiment during the Falklands War, and went on to become a Captain.
  • Billy Bennett, British comedian
  • Geoffrey Bingham, Australian theologian and author
  • Joe Cassidy, Scottish footballer
  • Mairi Chisholm, British volunteer ambulance driver
  • Douglas Clark, British rugby league footballer and wrestler
  • Jack Cock, British footballer
  • William Coltman, who was also awarded the Victoria Cross, and was the most highly decorated NCO of the First World War
  • Ernest Albert Corey, the only person to be awarded the MM four times
  • Dorothie Feilding, first woman to be awarded the MM
  • Barney F. Hajiro, Japanese American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, awarded for his actions in the Second World War
  • Billy Hanna, Northern Irish loyalist and commander of the Ulster Volunteer Force's Mid-Ulster Brigade. For gallantry in the Korean War
  • William Hutt, Canadian actor
  • Fred 'Buck' Kite, the only British soldier to be awarded the MM and two Bars in the Second World War
  • Elsie Knocker, British volunteer nurse and ambulance driver
  • Norman Washington Manley, former First Minister of Jamaica; sergeant in the British Army during the First World War
  • John McAleese, former British Special Air Service soldier who helped end the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980
  • James McCudden, the most highly decorated British pilot of the First World War
  • Andy McNab (pseudonym), former Special Air Service soldier and author
  • Tommy Prince, Devil's Brigade, Canadian Aboriginal Veteran, Canada's most decorated aboriginal soldier of the Second World War. Also received the US Silver Star
  • Bob Quinn, leading Australian rules footballer
  • Charles Rutherford, awarded the Military Cross, Military Medal and Victoria Cross
  • Chris Ryan (pseudonym), British Special Air Service sergeant and author
  • Wilfred Sénéchal, New Brunswick, Canada lawyer, politician
  • Al Slater, appeared on British documentary The Paras
  • Randall Swingler, British poet
  • Willie Thornton, Rangers and Scotland footballer
  • Karl Vernon, Olympic medallist oarsman and coach
  • Arthur Wesley Wheen, translator of All Quiet on the Western Front (
  • Major-General F. F. Worthington was awarded the Military Medal for actions near Vimy Ridge

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