User:David Underdown/VC warrants

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 — extension to colonial troops
 * 1920 — Entirely new warrant
 * 1931 — 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
 * 1997 — 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 — confirmation of direct award to Lieutenant Francis Edward Henry Farquharson
 * 1860 — 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 — noted that Lieutenant Hector Lachlan Stewart MacLean would have been nominated had he survived.
 * 1900 — confirmation of direct award for action witnessed by Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, balloted under rule 13
 * 1901 — VC awarded to Captain H. N. Schofield, cancellation of DSO previously awarded for same action.
 * 1956 — text of speech given by Elizabeth II when reviewing holders of VC in Hyde Park on centenary of medal.