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NSW POLICE FORCE. Bravery Medal 8 April 1982. ON 7 July 1980 AT CREMORNE NSW DETECTIVE COOK DISPLAYED CONSIDERABLE BRAVERY WHEN HE AND OTHER POLICE PURSUED AND APPREHENDED AN ARMED AND DANGEROUS MAN WHO WAS FIRING AT POLICE [277] 865504: COOPER, Eric Gordon: 5 September 1988: Tas: Kingston [278] 1139397: COOPER, Richard Anthony: 25 August 2008 ...
The Bravery Medal (BM) is a bravery decoration awarded to Australians. [1] It is awarded for acts of bravery in hazardous circumstances. [1] The BM was created in February 1975. [1] The decorations recognise acts of bravery by members of the community. They selflessly put themselves in jeopardy to protect the lives or property of others.
Several English-speaking nations have a medal called the "Medal of Bravery" or the "Medal of Valor", including Canada and Tanzania.The three Canadian Bravery Decorations were created in 1972, to recognize people who risked their lives to try to save or protect the lives of others: the Cross of Valour (C.V.) recognizes acts of the most conspicuous courage in circumstances of extreme peril; the ...
The George Medal is awarded by the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations for acts of great bravery; over 2,000 medals have been awarded since its inception in September 1940. Below are set out lists of recipients of the award. A person's presence in these lists does not suggest their award was more notable than any other award of the ...
The medal was originally established on 4 January 1952 as the "Ashoka Chakra, Class I" as the first step of a three-class sequence of non-combatant bravery decorations. In 1967, these decorations were removed from the "class-based" system and renamed as the Ashoka Chakra, Kirti Chakra, and Shaurya Chakra.
The decoration recognises acts of bravery by members of the community. [4] They selflessly put themselves in jeopardy to protect the lives or property of others. [1] It is ranked second in the Australian civil bravery decorations in the Australian Honours System. Recipients of the Star of Courage are entitled to use the post-nominal letters "SC ...
A medal awarded to a homing pigeon who helped the Dutch resistance during World War Two has been sold at auction for £30,000. Tommy, from Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria, was blown off course and ...
The Medal of Bravery is in the form of a 31.8 millimetres (1.25 in) diameter silver medal with, on the reverse, the Royal Cypher of the reigning monarch beneath a St. Edward's Crown, symbolizing the Canadian monarch's role as the fount of honour, [3] and the inscription BRAVERY • BRAVOURE.