Miss Townsend was the first of only four women to receive the Empire Gallantry Medal A medal awarded to a woman who tried to protect a child from being killed by his father at a Devon hospital has ...

The secret gallantry medals of a British commando who took part in one of the most audacious raids of the Second World War are being sold for £80,000. Maj Ronald “Taffy” Morris was one of 14 ...

A tree surgeon who pulled a woman from the wreckage of a burning car has been awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal at Buckingham Palace. Luke Ridley, 30, from Amesbury, Wiltshire, climbed through ...

3. (c) January 26, 1950 The prestigious Vir Chakra Gallantry Medal was instituted by the President of India on January 26, 1950. It is the third-highest wartime medal which is presented for the ...

Haryana has received any police medal for gallantry this year on Independence Day amid the controversy over the state government recommending six officers who handled the farmers’ agitation on ...