Chris_Baker Posted 31 January , 2005 Share Posted 31 January , 2005 I've just added a page to the Long, Long Trail, dealing with the award of the Albert Medal. Click here. Hope you like it and find it useful. Please alert me to any errors or omissions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 31 January , 2005 Share Posted 31 January , 2005 A good contribution: I had no idea how many A Ms were awarded. A speed-read makes me wonder if the British Army ever killed any ENEMY with grenades, rather than the Home team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryBettsMCDCM Posted 31 January , 2005 Share Posted 31 January , 2005 makes me wonder if the British Army ever killed any ENEMY with grenades, rather than the Home team. Oddly the enlarging of the Scope of the MSM for "Gallantry in the Performance of Military Duty" usurped the Place of the Albert Medal as a Non Combattant Gallantry Award in Grenade Throwing Accidents & the like.,I know which one I'd have preferred! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_Hartley Posted 1 February , 2005 Share Posted 1 February , 2005 Chris On a related subject, any timescale for uploading, to the LLT, the Royal Humane Society awards I sent you? John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandyford Posted 2 February , 2005 Share Posted 2 February , 2005 Chris That new page of information and recipients is really interesting. I would really like to see an Albert Medal but it looks as though they were very rare indeed. Kate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Denham Posted 2 February , 2005 Share Posted 2 February , 2005 Chris Here is an omitted name from the Albert Medal list. This man's award was missing from CWGC's files but I got it added last year. His citation is below. His official citation can be read in LG of 01.01.18 page 143 Name: PLACE, Alfred Initials: A Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Petty Officer Regiment: Royal Navy Unit Text: 2nd Drake Bn. R.N. Div. Date of Death: 16/06/1916 Service No: J3080 Awards: AM Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: "U." 2967. Cemetery: LEEDS (HUNSLET OLD) CEMETERY Citation: An extract from the London Gazette dated the 1st January 1918, records the following : "The King has been graciously pleased to award the Decoration of the Albert Medal in recognition of the gallantry of Petty Officer Alfred Place, late of the Royal Navy." The circumstances are as follows : "At Blandford, on the 16th June, 1916, during grenade practice, a live bomb thrown by one of the men under instruction fell back into the trench. Petty Officer Place rushed forward, pulled back two men who were in front of him and attempted to reach the grenade with the intention of throwing it over the parapet. Unfortunately, the bomb exploded before he could reach it and inflicted fatal injuries. By his coolness and self-sacrifice Petty Officer Place probably saved the lives of three other men. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw Posted 2 February , 2005 Share Posted 2 February , 2005 I am pleased to say that one winner of the A.M (in Gold), Lt G de Leche is a local Leatherhead man commemorated on the Leatherhead War Memorial. He again hugged a grenade to himself to save his fellow men. A very gallant man indeed. Perhaps an A.M award like this is all the more impressive because it is not ,by definition, won in the heat of battle with the red mist before one's eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HERITAGE PLUS Posted 2 February , 2005 Share Posted 2 February , 2005 Kate Here is a pic. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Denham Posted 2 February , 2005 Share Posted 2 February , 2005 Dave's pic is of the Albert Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life on Land (2nd Class). There is another version for saving life at sea which has a blue enamelled background and with an anchor entwined in the design. The medal has also had a variety of ribbon changes starting out as blue with two white stripes for the gold medal (changed to four white stripes after the second class bronze medal was introduced - which kept the two white stripes). The ribbons were changed to red in 1904 and the ribbon width has also been varied at times. Quite a complicated little medal with fourteen different variations of design/ribbon/metal (I think!). The gold medal was abolished in 1949 and the last bronze medal was awarded in 1970 (having become a posthumous only award in 1949). In 1971 it was given equal status to the George Cross and all surviving recipients were entitled to exchange their medals for the GC. Of the 64 eligible, 49 did so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Baker Posted 2 February , 2005 Author Share Posted 2 February , 2005 Terry, I only listed army winners, so RN awards do not appear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Denham Posted 2 February , 2005 Share Posted 2 February , 2005 Chris I suspected that but, as this man was RND, I thought you may have made an exception. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandyford Posted 2 February , 2005 Share Posted 2 February , 2005 Dave Thanks very much for that picture. Do you know anything about the recipient or are the medals not personally inscribed? Terry. You haven't got a picture of the 'saving life at sea' version, have you? Kate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qahtan Posted 30 April , 2005 Share Posted 30 April , 2005 My Fathers Albert Medal has his name and number on the back. it is now at the Guards Museum, Birdcage Walk. London, UK. I have a set of miniatures of his medals including the AM. qahtan Dave Thanks very much for that picture. Do you know anything about the recipient or are the medals not personally inscribed? Terry. You haven't got a picture of the 'saving life at sea' version, have you? Kate <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD60 Posted 30 April , 2005 Share Posted 30 April , 2005 Interesting to read something about what was a quite mysterious medal for me. Here is a grave of one of the recipient : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/tanneguy.desplanqu...rps%20royal.htm This medal was also added after the name of the recipient I do not know why but the image of the medal posted before is no more available at least on my PC. Is something wrong ? Intersting to see also some details on the reasons AEM Horn postumesly received this medal. Thanks and Best Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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