The Chesney Gold Medal is an award given by the Royal United Services Institute awarded to "any especially eminent work calculated to advance the military sciences and knowledge".
List of Medallists 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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