Operational Honours and Awards List : October 2013
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Operational Honours and Awards List : October 2013
Many congratulations to all 117 recipients 
A total of 117 members of the Armed Forces have received honours and awards in the latest Operational Honours and Awards List
23 Royal Air Force personnel are honoured for their bravery and service including ...
Distinguished Flying Cross
Flight Lieutenant Timothy Edward TROTT - RAF Odiham
Queen's Commendation for Bravery in the Air
Flight Lieutenant Christopher GENT - RAF Odiham
MOD RAF : Chinook Pilot Commended
A total of 117 members of the Armed Forces have received honours and awards in the latest Operational Honours and Awards List
23 Royal Air Force personnel are honoured for their bravery and service including ...
Distinguished Flying Cross
Flight Lieutenant Timothy Edward TROTT - RAF Odiham
Queen's Commendation for Bravery in the Air
Flight Lieutenant Christopher GENT - RAF Odiham
MOD RAF : Chinook Pilot Commended
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Air Force Cross (AFC)
Flight Lieutenant Christian John WILKINS, Royal Air Force
Queen’s Gallantry Medal (QGM)
Sergeant Rachael Louise ROBINSON, Royal Air Force
British army heroes honoured
Congratulations all round, I read the Gurkha story a while back and I believe they were pushing for a higher award at the time.
Nice to see a Bar awarded to an MC
Corporal John Matthew WATSON MC, Royal Marines
Flight Lieutenant Christian John WILKINS, Royal Air Force
Queen’s Gallantry Medal (QGM)
Sergeant Rachael Louise ROBINSON, Royal Air Force
British army heroes honoured
Congratulations all round, I read the Gurkha story a while back and I believe they were pushing for a higher award at the time.
Nice to see a Bar awarded to an MC
Corporal John Matthew WATSON MC, Royal Marines
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Not many female recipients of the QGM I'd reckon. Congratulations to Sgt Robinson for her award for her part in getting an injured French fisherman off a trawler in very high seas. Here's the link:
RAF Benson - News and Weather
I'm ashamed to say I didnt even know we had winchwomen (if that's the correct term) on SAR. Fantastic job!
RAF Benson - News and Weather
I'm ashamed to say I didnt even know we had winchwomen (if that's the correct term) on SAR. Fantastic job!
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Queen’s Gallantry Medal (QGM)
Sergeant Rachael Louise ROBINSON, Royal Air Force
Sergeant Rachael Louise ROBINSON, Royal Air Force
The Master's Medal 2013
Sergeant Rachael Robinson RAF
Sergeant Rachael Robinson RAF
Citation:
Winch woman Sergeant Rachael Robinson was a member of the crew of Rescue 169, the duty RAF search and rescue helicopter from A Flight, 22 Squadron, called to rescue a crewman from a 25 metre French fishing vessel, “Alf” in the Irish Sea on Thursday 21st March 2013. The crewman had serious head injuries and his condition was deteriorating.
The Alf was pitching and rolling violently, climbing and descending vertically 40 feet with each swell and rolling violently. The 35 knot wind whipped up spray and the sheeting rain further hampered visibility. The Alf’s captain spoke very little English, so a 3 way translation service was arranged via satellite phone involving English and French Coastguards and the crew of Rescue 169 to brief the French captain about how the RAF helicopter crew intended to get the crewman off the fishing boat.
Winch woman Robinson made 6 separate, hazardous descents on the winch-wire in an attempt to reach the Alf’s tiny deck. So violent were the seas that Rachael was repeatedly snatched from the heaving deck as the boat plunged into wave troughs faster than the winch cable could be paid out.
After three winching attempts, the Sea King was running out of fuel, so a swift refuel was arranged at Haverfordwest to prepare for a second attempt. It took three further attempts before Flight Lieutenant ‘Taff’ Wilkins – the Sea King’s captain – eventually calculated the lift to the optimum second, climbing his Sea King as the Alf reached the top of a swell, plucking Rachael and the casualty clear of the deck. The casualty was treated en-route for head injuries and hypothermia and was taken to Swansea Moriston Hospital. It was entirely due to the actions of the crew of rescue 169 and Rachael Robinson’s incredible fortitude that the injured crewman survived.
The Alf was pitching and rolling violently, climbing and descending vertically 40 feet with each swell and rolling violently. The 35 knot wind whipped up spray and the sheeting rain further hampered visibility. The Alf’s captain spoke very little English, so a 3 way translation service was arranged via satellite phone involving English and French Coastguards and the crew of Rescue 169 to brief the French captain about how the RAF helicopter crew intended to get the crewman off the fishing boat.
Winch woman Robinson made 6 separate, hazardous descents on the winch-wire in an attempt to reach the Alf’s tiny deck. So violent were the seas that Rachael was repeatedly snatched from the heaving deck as the boat plunged into wave troughs faster than the winch cable could be paid out.
After three winching attempts, the Sea King was running out of fuel, so a swift refuel was arranged at Haverfordwest to prepare for a second attempt. It took three further attempts before Flight Lieutenant ‘Taff’ Wilkins – the Sea King’s captain – eventually calculated the lift to the optimum second, climbing his Sea King as the Alf reached the top of a swell, plucking Rachael and the casualty clear of the deck. The casualty was treated en-route for head injuries and hypothermia and was taken to Swansea Moriston Hospital. It was entirely due to the actions of the crew of rescue 169 and Rachael Robinson’s incredible fortitude that the injured crewman survived.
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It does not say, but there are 164 only, mind you might not be upto date
Category:Recipients of the Military Cross and Bar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blimey, some guys had 3 bars on their MC's
Military Cross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Category:Recipients of the Military Cross and Bar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blimey, some guys had 3 bars on their MC's
During World War I, Acting Captain Francis Victor Wallington of the Royal Field Artillery was the first person to be awarded the MC and three bars when he was invested with his third bar on 10 July 1918 (gazetted 13 September 1918: he had obtained the first three awards as a second lieutenant).[5][6] Three other officers were subsequently awarded a third bar, Percy Bentley, Humphrey Arthur Gilkes and Charles Gordon Timms, all of whose awards were gazetted in a supplement to the London Gazette of 31 January 1919.[5][7]
Nutloose - I'm afraid you have misread the Wiki entry on the Military Cross, that number only refers to those holders of the MC and bar for which there is a Wikipedia entry
The numbers taken from British Gallantry Awards by Abbott and Tamplin (1971) are as follows:
World War One :
2,983 1st bars
168 2nd bars
4 3rd bars
Inter war years :
31 1st bars
World War Two :
482 1st bars
24 2nd bars
(Flight Lieutenant, later Wing Commander, F.E.E.Yeo Thomas, GC, MC* is the only RAF recipient of a bar to the Military Cross)
Post-war years up to 1969 :
28, the last one being awarded for Borneo in 1967. I'm not aware of any since then, up to the present award (there were none for the Falklands War), so I'm guessing this is the first one since 1967
Many years ago I had the pleasure of meeting two gentlemen who both held the MC and bar (WW1 awards) I photographed them and their medals - one of them had won his with the Camel Corps!
The numbers taken from British Gallantry Awards by Abbott and Tamplin (1971) are as follows:
World War One :
2,983 1st bars
168 2nd bars
4 3rd bars
Inter war years :
31 1st bars
World War Two :
482 1st bars
24 2nd bars
(Flight Lieutenant, later Wing Commander, F.E.E.Yeo Thomas, GC, MC* is the only RAF recipient of a bar to the Military Cross)
Post-war years up to 1969 :
28, the last one being awarded for Borneo in 1967. I'm not aware of any since then, up to the present award (there were none for the Falklands War), so I'm guessing this is the first one since 1967
Many years ago I had the pleasure of meeting two gentlemen who both held the MC and bar (WW1 awards) I photographed them and their medals - one of them had won his with the Camel Corps!
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Have you actually read the citation for the Gurkha MC????
Get on the MOD website and read it, it is a good use of your time.
Hit on the helmet by a bullet, dazed and throwing a grenade out of his sangar which exploded and blew him over. Getting up to see a bloke in front of him and drawing his kukri, fighting hand to hand, then to top it all they fell out of the sangar still fighting.
Sounds like a rambo film........ Is an MC enough???
Get on the MOD website and read it, it is a good use of your time.
Hit on the helmet by a bullet, dazed and throwing a grenade out of his sangar which exploded and blew him over. Getting up to see a bloke in front of him and drawing his kukri, fighting hand to hand, then to top it all they fell out of the sangar still fighting.
Sounds like a rambo film........ Is an MC enough???
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Someone forgot the first rule never ever get a Gurkha angry, nicest guys in the world.
Someone forgot the first rule never ever get a Gurkha angry, nicest guys in the world.
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Congratulations all round, I read the Gurkha story a while back and I believe they were pushing for a higher award at the time.
Gurkha who fought off Taliban awarded Gallantry Cross | Mail Online
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/t...urs-recipients
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Sergeant Rachael Robinson received a standing ovation from the 670+ people present at the Guild of Air Pilots' Trophies & Awards Banquet held at London's Guildhall on Wednesday evening.
Honourable Company of Air Pilots
Rachel received her Master's Medal and Certificate from Captain Jim Lovell
and HH Judge Tudor Owen, Master of the Guild
Rachel being congratulated by HRH The Duke of York, Grand Master
Honourable Company of Air Pilots
Rachel received her Master's Medal and Certificate from Captain Jim Lovell
and HH Judge Tudor Owen, Master of the Guild
Rachel being congratulated by HRH The Duke of York, Grand Master
The Guild became the Honourable Company of Air Pilots in February 2014.
Sergeant Rachael Robinson received a standing ovation from the 670+ people present at the Guild of Air Pilots' Trophies & Awards Banquet held at London's Guildhall on Wednesday evening.
Enough frivolity - well done Sgt Robinson.
LJ
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