User:David Underdown/VC warrants
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List of Royal Warrants pertaining to the Victoria Cross (based on http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/SearchResults.aspx?GeoType=London&st=adv&sb=date&all=warrant&exact=victoria%20cross&)
- 1867 London Gazette: no. 23212, pages 429–430, 25 January 1867. Retrieved on 2008-04-02. — extension to colonial troops
- 1920 London Gazette: no. 31946, pages 6702–6703, 18 June 1920. Retrieved on 2008-04-02. — Entirely new warrant
- 1931 London Gazette: no. 33700, pages 1886–1888, 20 March 1931. Retrieved on 2008-04-02. — Entirely new warrant, succeeding pages include new warrants for Royal Red Cross, Military Cross, Distinguished Conduct Medal, Military Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, and amendments to Distinguished Service Order
- 1956 London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 54840, pages 8395–8396, 21 July 1997. Retrieved on 2008-04-02.
- 1997 London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 54840, pages 8395–8396, 21 July 1997. Retrieved on 2008-04-02. — amends the twelth clause of the 1961 warrant, setting the UK pension to £1300 pa, backdated to 1995-08-17, or a one-off payment of £6000
Other "unusual" Gazette notifications relating to the VC:
- 1859 London Gazette: no. 22278, page 2420, 21 June 1859. Retrieved on 2008-04-02. — confirmation of direct award to Lieutenant Francis Edward Henry Farquharson
- 1860 London Gazette: no. 22357, page 557, 17 February 1860. Retrieved on 2008-04-02. — award to civilian, William Fraser M'Donell, of the Bengal Civil Service, Magistrate of Sarun, under terms of special warrant "13th of December, 1858, to declare that Non-Military Persons who, as Volunteers, have borne arms against the Mutineers, both at Lucknow and elsewhere, during the late operations in India, shall be considered as eligible to receive the decoration of the Victoria Cross, subject to the rules and ordinances already made and ordained for the government thereof, provided that it be established in any case that the person was serving under the orders of a General or other Officer in Command of Troops in the Field, when he performed the Act of Bravery for which it is proposed to confer the decoration"
- 1897 London Gazette: no. 26908, page 6143, 9 November 1897. Retrieved on 2008-04-02. — noted that Lieutenant Hector Lachlan Stewart MacLean would have been nominated had he survived.
- 1900 London Gazette: no. 27205, page 3964, 26 June 1900. Retrieved on 2008-04-02. — confirmation of direct award for action witnessed by Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, balloted under rule 13
- 1901 London Gazette: no. 27350, page 5737, 30 August 1901. Retrieved on 2008-04-02. — VC awarded to Captain H. N. Schofield, cancellation of DSO previously awarded for same action.
- 1956 London Gazette: no. 40818, page 3799, 29 June 1956. Retrieved on 2008-04-02. — text of speech given by Elizabeth II when reviewing holders of VC in Hyde Park on centenary of medal.
