Ammunition Technician - Operational Honours

Operational Honours

The trade of Ammunition Technician is one of the most highly decorated professions in the British Army. The trade has been awarded 231 British gallantry awards as follows:

• George Cross - 9
• George Medal - 80
• Conspicuous Gallantry Cross - 1
• Military Cross - 3
• Queen's Gallantry Medal - 100
• MBE for Gallantry - 14
• BEM for Gallantry - 23

In addition, Ammunition Technicians and Ammunition Technical Officers have also received almost 200 Mention in Dispatches, King's or Queen's Commendations for Bravery.

A further 100 awards of the MBE and BEM have been made to Ammunition Technicians for distinguished service within their trade.

These decorations have been awarded since 1940 and in places such as Aden, Afghanistan, Burma, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Great Britain, Greece, Hong Kong, Iraq, Italy, Malaya, Malta, Northern Ireland, Pacific, Sicily and Yugoslavia.

George Cross

• Staff Sergeant Sidney Rogerson GC. Royal Army Ordnance Corps. 11 October 1946.
• Warrant Officer Class 1 Barry Johnson GC Royal Army Ordnance Corps. 6 November 1990
• Staff Sergeant Olaf Sean Schmid GC Royal Logistic Corps 19 March 2010

George Medal

• Sergeant FW Pearce GM Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1944.
• Sergeant AT Taylor GM Royal Army Ordnance Corps 8 March 1957.
• Warrant Officer Class 2 BJC Reid GM Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1966.
• Sergeant AE Dedman GM Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1972.
• Warrant Officer Class 1 PES Gurney GM Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1973. Peter Gurney was later awarded a bar to his GM as a civilian.
• Sergeant JA Anderson GM Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1980.
• Warrant Officer Class 1 JRT Balding GM Royal Logistic Corps 1993, first GM awarded to member of the newly formed Royal Logistic Corps.
• Warrant Officer Class 1 NB Thomsen GM Royal Logistic Corps 1995.
• Warrant Officer Class 2 A Islam GM QGM Royal Logistic Corps 1997.
• Warrant Officer Class 2 G O'Donnell Royal Logistic Corps 2006 and 2009. Posthumously awarded a second GM in March 2009 for "repeated and sustained acts of immense bravery" in Afghanistan.
• Warrant Officer Class 2 K Ley GM Royal Logistic Corps 24 September 2010

Conspicuous Gallantry Cross

• Staff Sergeant James Anthony Wadsworth CGC Royal Logictic Corps. 7 March 2008

Military Cross

• Staff Sergeant Gareth Wood MC Royal Logistic Corps 24 September 2010

Queen's Gallantry Medal

• Warrant Officer Class 1 Richard Gill QGM Royal Army Ordnance Corps 7 October 1974
• Staff Sergeant Arthur Burns QGM Royal Army Ordnance Corps 6 January 1975
• Warrant Officer Class 2 Kevin Callaghan GM QGM Royal Army Ordnance Corps 20 October 1980
• Warrant Officer Class 2 Ernest Leonard Bienkowski QGM Royal Army Ordnance Corps 14 April 1987
• Warrant Officer Class 1 Robert John McLelland QGM, Royal Logistic Corps. 21 November 1994
• WO1 Eamon Conrad Heakin QGM, Royal Logistic Corps. 7 September 2004
• Warrant Officer Class 2 Colin Robert George Grant QGM, Royal Logistic Corps 11 September 2009

MBE for Gallantry

• WO2 Henry Albert Vaughan MBE RAOC 16 February 1968.
• WO1 Stanley Gordon Woods MBE RAOC 10 May 1968.
• WO1 Frederick William Wood MBE RAOC 12 November 1968.

BEM for Gallantry

• Sergeant Gordon Epps BEM RAOC 31 December 1946
• WO2 Donald Frederick Tildesley BEM RAOC 4 November 1949.
• Sergeant Donald Lawrence Birch BEM RAOC 10 May 1968.
• Staff Sergenat David Greenaway BEM RAOC 18 Mar 1974.