Chesney Gold Medal

The Chesney Gold Medal is an award given by the Royal United Services Institute awarded to "any especially eminent work calculated to advance the military sciences and knowledge".

List of Medallists

The following people have received the Chesney Gold Medal:

1900: Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan USN

1907: Major General Sir John Frederick Maurice

1909: The Hon J.W. Fortescue

1910: Sir John Knox Laughton

1911: Professor C.W.C. Oman

1913: Colonel Sir Lonsdale Augustus Hale

1914: Sir Julian Corbett

1919: Major General E.D. Swinton

1921: Major General Sir Charles Callwell

1924: Professor G.A.R. Callender

1925: Captain Sir George Arthur

1926: Vice Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond

1927: Brigadier-General Sir James E. Edmonds

1928: L.G. Carr-Laughton

1929: Colonel H.C. Wylly

1930: C.E.W. Bean

1931: Commander C.N. Robinson

1932: Colonel C. de W. Crookshank MP

1936: Professor Spenser Wilkinson

1950: The Rt Hon Winston Churchill

1955: Sir Arthur Bryant

1963: Major General J.F.C. Fuller and Captain Basil Liddell Hart

1965: Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John Slessor

1968: Professor Arthur J. Marder

1973: Professor Michael Howard

1975: Captain Stephen W. Roskill RN

1981: John Terraine and Ronald Lewin

1985: General Sir John Hackett

1991: Correlli Barnett

1997: Henry Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey

2000: Baroness Thatcher

2006: Sir Lawrence Freedman

2013: General David H. Petraeus

References

British science and technology awards