On this day: 20 January

2 acts of valour and 10 Gazette announcements fall on 20 January.

← Every day of the year

Actions on 20 January

  1. Alec George Horwood1944Lieutenant, 1st/6th Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) attached to 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment · Second World War
  2. Sher Shah1945Lance-Naik, 16th Punjab Regiment. Indian Army · Second World War

Gazetted on 20 January

  1. James Champion1860Troop Sergeant-Major, 8th Hussars (The King's Royal Irish) · Indian Mutiny
  2. John Divane*1860Private, 1st Battalion. (King's Royal Rifle Corps) · Indian Mutiny
  3. Alfred Spencer Heathcote1860Lieutenant, 60th Rifles (King's Royal Rifle Corps) · Indian Mutiny
  4. John Kirk1860Private, 10th Regiment · Indian Mutiny
  5. William Sutton1860Bugler, 1st Battalion. 60th Rifles · Indian Mutiny
  6. James Thompson1860Private, 1st Battalion 60th Rifles (King's Royal Rifle Corps) · Indian Mutiny
  7. Samuel Turner1860Private, 1st Battalion. 60th Rifles · Indian Mutiny
  8. George Waller1860Colour-Sergeant, 1st Battalion. 60th Rifles · Indian Mutiny
  9. Alexander Stanhope Cobbe1903Captain, ). Indian Army attached to the King's African Rifles · Second Somaliland Expedition
  10. Mark Gregor Strang Donaldson2009Trooper, Special Air Service Regiment (SASR), Special Operations Task Group · War in Afghanistan (2001–2014)