Introduction

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

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

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