Military Cross
R. H. 'Mike' Stockbridge: intelligence officer
...betrayed and evacuated to Egypt. There his service on Crete was recognised by the award of his first Military Cross. He was insistent that he could re-establish himself on Crete and, in...
Brigadier Donald Fletcher
...who has died aged 87, was awarded a Military Cross in Burma in 1945 for rescuing wounded comrades under fire. Published: 6:04PM GMT 14 Mar 2010 In February 1945 Fletcher, then a...
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ROBERT WINSTON: the dark side of the inventions that changed the world
...of man's conflicts. Reilly himself was also a casualty of his own success - after being awarded the Military Cross in 1919, he was eventually arrested in the Soviet Union and executed...
Did You Really Shoot the Television? A Family Fable, By Max Hastings
...from his Catholic boarding school, great-uncle Lewis lit off for South Africa on a sailing ship, later earning a Military Cross in the First World War and reporting overseas for the BBC...
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Ceremony for medal recipient
City holds ceremony for Military Cross sailor Kate Nesbitt tended a soldier's wounds for 30 minutes in a battle A sailor from Plymouth, who was the first woman in the Royal Navy to be...
Gallantry awards to mark brutality of Afghan combat
...be recognised. Among the men they lost last summer was Sergeant Michael Lockett, 29, who was awarded the Military Cross for "selfless commitment and unshakable bravery" rescuing wounded...
Navy sex scandal fears as women are set to be allowed to serve in submarines
...than continue fighting the enemy. However, last November Royal Navy medic Kate Nesbitt was awarded the Military Cross after saving the life of a wounded marine under enemy fire in...
Colonel John Watts
...who has died aged 96, commanded an airborne field surgical unit in Normandy and was awarded a Military Cross. Published: 5:44PM GMT 07 Mar 2010 In March 1944 Watts, then a major, was...
An MoD spokesman said: "Lieutenant Walter Tull was awarded a Mention in Dispatches for his actions in the First World War, when the Military Cross could not be given posthumously. "The British honours system does not allow for retrospective awards because to do so would bring into question the decisions of the commanders at the time, who were faced with the challenge of selecting those they wished to be honoured from the many deserving cases that existed. "
Football's real heroes - remember the wartime stars that died in battle Sunday Mirror | 4 months ago
What the English have, as they showed last Saturday, is guts. But it is often witless guts
...of all nations between 1939-45 was Irish? Moreover, the grandfather of Ireland's hero, Tommy Bowe, won a Military Cross in the Normandy Landings: how many of the English team could...
Gammell steps out of Stokes's shadow
...regiment that landed at Anzac Cove in 1915, the Cameron Highlanders and later in the war won the Military Cross. As head of the Edinburgh-based fund manager Ivory and Sime,...
The most inspiring female of the past century - place your vote now
...Association and her work smashed sex education taboos. Michelle Norris The first woman to be awarded the Military Cross, Michelle showed outstanding bravery in Iraq in 2006 when she...
Captain Doug Beattie: We owe our guys for their courage
...in the Royal Irish Regiment, completed two tours of Afghanistan in 2006 and 2008, and was awarded the Military Cross for his heroics in defending the town of Garsmir. 'During my tours,...
