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    The Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct, formerly the King's Commendation for Brave Conduct, acknowledged brave acts by both civilians and members of...
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    Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct and the Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air were discontinued. The two awards are granted for...
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    the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct and the Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air were discontinued. A King’s Commendation for Valuable...
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    gallantry. The award of the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct was ended and replaced with the Queen's Commendation for Bravery for other non-operational...
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    been awarded the George Medal for bravery in 1973, and was subsequently awarded the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct. Daniel Hellings, a 19-year-old...
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  • Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct, awarded 1939-1994 King's and Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air, awarded 1942-1994 Queen's Commendation...
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  • The Commendation for Brave Conduct is a bravery decoration awarded to Australians. It is awarded for an act of bravery that is worthy of recognition. The...
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    Edward Gene Kerr, Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct Chief Petty Officer Peter Frank Still, Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct Tijdelijke Vereniging...
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    The Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air, formerly the King's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air, was a merit award for flying...
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  • Order of Saint John Union of South Africa Queen's Medal for Bravery, Gold Kings African Rifles Distinguished Conduct Medal DCM Indian Distinguished Service...
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    John Cobb (racing driver) (category Recipients of the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct)
    estate. British Empire Trophy (1932). Segrave Trophy (1947). Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct (1953). Citations "John Rhodes Cobb - The Elmbridge Hundred"...
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  • As part of the British honours system, Special Honours are issued at the Monarch's pleasure at any given time. The Special Honours refer to the awards...
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    Archie Duncan (actor) (category Recipients of the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct)
    fractured kneecap and cuts and bruises. He received the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct and £1,360 in damages from Sapphire films. He also played...
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    the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct) Sergeant Michael Hawcroft, 1981 (stabbed; posthumously awarded the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct) Inspector...
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    New Order". The Times. 25 August 1917. p. 7. "The Monarch of the Today > Queen Ann arbor to the new one w public > Honours > Companions of Honour". Royal...
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  • times. Chief Inspector Peter Howse was later awarded the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct for his role in apprehending Hughes and saving the life of...
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  • Hugh Hind (category Recipients of the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct)
    the British SAS during the 1960s. He was awarded the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct for rescuing a young child from the River Wye in Hereford...
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    George Cross, George Medal, Queen's Gallantry Medal or the Queen's Commendation for Bravery. On 11 March 2022 the Queen approved amendments to the Royal...
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    The Distinguished Conduct Medal was a decoration established in 1854 by Queen Victoria for gallantry in the field by other ranks of the British Army. It...
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    Jan Kubiš (category Recipients of the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct)
    1945), King's Commendation for Brave Conduct (1947), Czechoslovak Military Order for Liberty (1949), Military Order of the White Lion "For Victory" 1st...
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    award of the Mention in Despatches, the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct, and Queen's Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air. Orders, decorations...
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  • instituted to recognise civilian gallantry in the face of enemy bombing, and brave deeds more generally. Announcing the new awards, the King said In order...
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  • Tom Patey (category Recipients of the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct)
    outside broadcast on 8–9 July 1967. In 1966 he received a Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct, after assisting in an incident where two climbers were...
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  • ISBN 978-0-7478-0516-8. "British (Imperial) Mention in Despatches and Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct". Vietnam Veterans Association of Australia. Retrieved 2009-04-24...
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    Eliane Plewman (category Recipients of the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct)
    named in her honour. King's Commendation for Brave Conduct awarded posthumously in the London Gazette 20 August 1946. "For services in France during the...
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  • Butler, The Queen's Regiment. RM 23000 Corporal Keith Callaghan, The Corps of Royal Marines. 23697027 Corporal Carl Robert Chinn, The Queen's Regiment....
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    Madeleine Damerment (category Recipients of the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct)
    Guerre, the Médaille de la Résistance, and by the British King's Commendation for Brave Conduct. She is recorded on the FANY memorial at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge...
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    Vera Leigh (category Recipients of the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct)
    13 years in prison. Leigh posthumously received the King's Commendation for Brave Conduct. The concentration camp where she died is a now a French government...
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  • Donald Campbell (category Recipients of the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct)
    January 1967, Campbell was posthumously awarded the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct "for courage and determination in attacking the world water...
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    Geoffrey Dear, Baron Dear (category Recipients of the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct)
    Command Training. In September 1979, he was awarded the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct for his arrest of an armed and "mentally deranged" man who...
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