Talk:Military Medal

message: Cpl Bob Chinn MM Who served in the 1st Bn The Royal Sussex Regt. What did he do to receive this award, and where was he at the time?
I read bravo two zero and McNab did'nt metion either he or chris ryan getting the MM but id did say that Steve "legs" Lane, and Bob Cosiglio did get MM's
"The obverse bears the crowned effigy of the reigning monarch." In the image, the King isn't wearing a crown, so this needs correction.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 135.245.72.35 (talk) 14:09, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

message: I edited the script because he was a Sergeant, maybe he was a corporal DURING the time, so if need be, return it back to what it was.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.58.106.2 (talk) 05:35, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
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message: For the centenary of the institution of the Military Medal I've taken a look at various of the documents held at The National Archives (United Kingdom) relating to its creation, and published a post here http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/centenary-military-medal/ (I'm leading a workstream within our First World War Centenary programme covering the theme of Bravery and Courage).  Our principal military specialist, William Spencer, also checked over the post before publication.  I think some of the points could usefully be added to this article, but obviously someone else should really make that decision. David Underdown (talk) 14:40, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
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message: In the latter stages of WW1 a lot of officers were commissioned from the ranks to make up the shortages, and casualties continued to be huge: iirc a third of Britain's war deaths occurred in the intensive fighting of 1918 (the German Spring Offensives and then the Hundred Days). I'm told there are a significant number of captains, majors and even lt-colonels in the cemeteries with "MM" after their name, showing that they were former NCOs. Might be worth posting if somebody has a source. (My Dad "earned his commission the hard way" in WW2, but was never sent anywhere near the front line.)Paulturtle (talk) 00:56, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
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message: The statement that after the MM was instituted ‘for every DCM awarded there were fifty Military Medals’ is an exaggeration. I will write a short article in an appropriate online forum which can then be quoted. I have the complete Australian figures which indicate from March 1916 for every DCM awarded to the Australian Army, six not 50 MMs were awarded. I would delete that phase that the MC ‘was the other ranks' equivalent’. The VC, MC, DCM and MM are strictly gallantry awards and the guidelines were tightened up during the First World War to ensure the criteria was gallantry in action. The DSO was for distinguished leadership and although about one in six awards were to junior officers awards for gallantry it was not equivalent to the DCM for NCOs and other ranks where 100% of awards were for gallantry. Anthony Staunton (talk) 06:52, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: No worries, Anthony, thanks for raising this. It should be possible to work in your information to contrast the information attributed to Richards. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 07:35, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  For every DCM awarded there were fifty Military Medals exaggeration 

message: Very confusing, pls clarify. One can possibly read between the lines that soldiers from territories outside the UK might have been the recipients, but guessing is not a good thing when reading an encyclopedia. Arminden (talk) 21:11, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Erm, discontinued in 1993...
Ian Dalziel (talk) 17:26, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discontinued in 1933, but awarded in WWII??!!