User:Abraham, B.S./DYK

Written or expanded
The following are articles that I have written or significatly expanded that have been featured in the Did you know ...? section on the main page:



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 * ... that during his Victoria Cross-winning action, Percy Statton rushed four machine gun posts before returning to his battalion lines where he was cheered by his fellow Australians?
 * ... that Australian Second World War flying ace Adrian Goldsmith was credited with shooting down 12¼ Axis aircraft over Malta between the months of February and July 1942?
 * ... that Arthur Bagot was awarded the Albert Medal in 1918 for removing depth charges from a motor launch whilst the launch was ablaze?
 * ... that 22 Australians have been decorated with the George Cross, the highest civil decoration for heroism in the British Empire?
 * ... that following his rescue of a swimmer during a shark attack in 1922, Jack Chalmers was awarded the Albert Medal and gifted £3000?
 * ... that William McAloney was awarded the Albert Medal for his attempted rescue of a pilot trapped in a burning aircraft?
 * ... that Australian Stanley Frederick Gibbs was awarded the Albert Medal in 1927 for his rescue of a boy during a shark attack, during which he punched and kicked the shark until it released the youth?
 * ... that dental student Robert Kavanaugh was awarded the Albert Medal following his rescue of a fourteen-year-old boy during a shark attack?
 * ... that Australian flying ace Charles Scherf (pictured) was credited with 14½ aerial victories from 38 operational sorties during the Second World War, with an additional nine aircraft destroyed on the ground?
 * ... that General Sir Arthur MacDonald's forty-year career in the Australian Army included service during the Second World War, Korean War and Vietnam War, and culminated in his appointment as Chief of the Defence Force Staff?
 * ... that Australian flying ace Russell Foskett was credited with 6½ aerial victories during the Second World War, before he was killed over the Aegean Sea in October 1944?
 * ... that Australian Second World War flying ace Virgil Brennan shot down 10 Axis aircraft over Malta in a five month period during 1942?
 * ... that Australian flying ace Raymond Brownell was awarded the Military Cross for shooting down six enemy aircraft over a three month period in the First World War?
 * ... that Vice Admiral Rodney Taylor was one of the last officers to join the Royal Australian Navy as a 13-year-old cadet?
 * ... that Captain (later Rear Admiral) Otto Becher (pictured) was awarded both the Distinguished Service Order and United States Legion of Merit as commander of HMAS Warramunga during the Korean War?
 * ... that the Commander Australian Fleet holds full command of all maritime combat forces and operations within the Royal Australian Navy?
 * ... that Flight Lieutenant Charles Crombie shot down two Japanese bombers and damaged a third in a single action in 1943 despite his aircraft being ablaze?
 * ... that Australian aviator Captain Thomas Baker (pictured) was credited with the destruction of 12 German aircraft between July and October 1918, before he was shot down and killed?
 * ... that Andrew Cowper (pictured) was awarded the Military Cross three times in the First World War for his efforts in destroying 19 German aircraft?
 * ... that Captain Cedric Howell was awarded the DSO for bringing down eight Central aircraft in a four-day period in July 1918, including destroying five in a single action against ten or fifteen planes?
 * ... that in the 89-year history of the Royal Australian Air Force, only three officers have been promoted to air chief marshal, the service's highest active rank?
 * ... that after a 46-year career in the Royal Australian Navy, Vice Admiral Sir Alan McNicoll (pictured) was appointed as Australia's first ambassador to Turkey?
 * ... that Australian historian Joan Beaumont won the 2014 Prime Minister's, New South Wales Premier's and Queensland Literary prizes in history for her book Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War?
 * ... that Vice Admiral Robert Walls was among the last intake of 13 year old cadet midshipmen to be accepted by the Royal Australian Naval College?

Nominated
The following are articles that I have nominated that have been featured in the Did you know ...? section on the main page:



2 November 2009: (~2,700 views)
 * ... that Roberts Dunstan was awarded the DSO for his efforts as a rear gunner in the Second World War despite having only one leg?