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Military Personnel Records
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Military Honours and Awards
Gallantry & Campaign Medals
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These pages provide information about the Gallantry
Awards and Medals awarded to members of the Fleet Air Arm, for gallantry and
during campaigns or military service in time of war.
This site is dedicated
to the memory of all those who received honours and awards in the Fleet Air
Arm. The page is especially dedicated to the families of Esmonde and Gray
 
List
of all Fleet Air Arm Honours and awards
In July 1999, the Fleet Air Archive began to
list the names of as many Fleet Air Arm
personnel who had received honours and awards. In August, 2000 the list has
been completed as best as could be with available resources, for the
Commanding Officers, and TAGs. Future phases will concentrate on the other
aircrew and their awards. It certain that there are a few awards may have
been over looked, but not intentionally. The task was long and difficult not
to mention extremely time consuming.
The FAA Archive would like to complete the
Medal Roster list by adding the other Commonwealth naval aviator names to the
Honour rolls. If you know any missing names please contact the FAA Archive.
Meanwhile we will be undertaking further research and consultation with veteran
and veteran associations to ensure that this list will become as complete as
possible so as to ensure that the dedication, bravery and effort of these men
is never forgotten.
These pages provide information about the Gallantry Awards and Medals awarded
to members of the Fleet Air Arm, for gallantry during campaigns or military
service in time of war. Two types of award were made during WWII: immediate,
for single acts of bravery, etc. and non-immediate, normally given at the
conclusion of a tour of duty of between 25 and 30 operations. Citations
for immediate awards were published in the London Gazette.
 Description of the
Honours and Awards
Fleet Air Arm and the
Victoria Cross
Honours/Awards to Commanding
Officers
Honours and Awards
to Officers [coming soon]
Honours and
Awards to TAGs
Honours and Awards
to other non-commissioned officers and men
Fleet Air Arm Campaign
Rolls of Honour
Fleet Air Arm
Air Aces and U-boat killers
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
For information on campaign medal rolls and
individual awards contact the relevant Armed Services Medal Offices. Note
that awards to Fleet Air Arm personnel by the RAF will only be held under the
RAF records and that British awards to Dominion,
Commonwealth and Dependent Territory
personnel will only be held in the relevant British records and not of the
country from which the overseas Fleet Air Arm personnel originated.
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Navy:
Ministry of Defence, NPP Acs 3 (b) 4, HMS
Centurion, Grange Road, Gosport, Hampshire PO13 9XA, UK
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Royal
Air Force: Ministry of Defence, CS Sec 1d, Room F93, Building 256, HQ RAF
PTC, RAF Innsworth, Gloucestershire GL3 1EZ, UK
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Royal
Marines: Ministry of Defence, Drafting and Record Office, Royal Marines, HMS
Centurion; Grange Road, Gosport, Hampshire PO13 9XA, UK
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Merchant
Navy: Maritime & Coastguard Agency, Spring Place, 105 Commercial Road, Southampton SO15 1EG.
Royal Navy Ministry of Defence
Website Royal
Navy: Sources of Information
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Online information: How to obtain
Royal Navy Service Records & Medals
For further information about
Gallantry Records awarded to Fleet Air Arm personnel, and a list of gallantry
medals with records (and which services and ranks were eligible for them),
see the excellent online
leaflet series of the British official archive "The Public Records
Office" notably:
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"Armed
Services: Gallantry Medals, Further Information" Military Records Information
78 Leaflet. Which explains Who Was Eligible for Which Medal?, Alphabetical Table of Gallantry Medals, Foreign Awards,
and British Awards to Foreigners.
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"Armed
Services: Campaign Medals, and other Service Medals". Military Records Information
76 Leaflet.
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Armed
Services: Gallantry Medals. Military Records Information
77 Leaflet
Website Directories and Databases
with FAA Honours an Awards information
Medals. Military Records
Information 51.Public Records Office
http://www.pro.gov.uk/leaflets/ri2051.htm
The Association of the Officers of the Fleet Air Arm, in London.
Includes a section on History including about all the squadrons of the Fleet
Air Arm, with an outline of their Battle
honours.
http://www.fleetairarmoa.org
Sturtivant, R & Ballance, T (1994). 'The
Squadrons of the Fleet Air Arm' Published by Air Britain
(Historians) Ltd, 1994 ISBN: 0 85130 223 8
 Australian Medals and
Awards (VetNet Australia).
Australian Veterans Network presented by Veterans' Independent Consultation
Group Inc.
http://www.onthenet.com.au/~vetnet/frames21.htm
 Canadian
Military Medals and Decorations by Veterans Affairs
Canada
http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=collections/cmdp/mainmenu
List
of Canadian
medals and link to Canadian
honours of the Veterans
affairs
Additional information and a list of qualifing areas of service area available from the
Honours and Awards Section, Veterans Affairs Canada, 66 Slater Street,
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0P4
First World War Honours
and Awards to Canadians in British
Flying Services RCAF Personnel -
Honours and Awards - 1939-1949
Honours and Awards
to Canadian Forces Personnel - Post War
Canadian Air Aces:
Medals
http://www.accessweb.com/users/mconstab/medals.htm
 Guide to the New
Zealand Royal Honours System
http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/honours/intro/more.html
Rhodesian
Honours and Awards (1975)
http://www.geocities.com:0080/Athens/4795/rhodesia.htm
Government of South
Africa
http://www.gov.za/
Decorartion and
Medals of the South African Defence Force
http://www.sun.ac.za//library/john/army/medals.htm
Foreign Medals
Medals of the
world listed by country links
US Marine Corps awards
http://www.marzone.com/Art/USMC-MD.htm
Aviation Congressional
Medal of Honor by Battery Corporal Willis S. Cole Military Museum
http://www.ww1.org/
Created: 3-04-2001, Last Modified 3-04-2005
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