On this day: 21 April

5 acts of valour and 8 Gazette announcements fall on 21 April.

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Actions on 21 April

  1. Garrett Creagh1879Captain, Bombay Staff Corps · Second Afghan War
  2. Benjamin Handley Geary1915Second Lieutenant, 4th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment. (attached to 1st Battalion) · First World War
  3. Geoffrey Woolley1915Second Lieutenant, Queen Victoria's Rifles · First World War
  4. Charles Melvin1917Private, 2nd Battalion The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) · First World War
  5. Edward Charlton1945Guardsman, Irish Guards · Second World War

Gazetted on 21 April

  1. Duncan Gordon Boyes1865Midshipman, Royal Navy · Bombardment of Shimonoseki
  2. Thomas Pride1865Captain, of the After Guard. Royal Navy · Bombardment of Shimonoseki
  3. William Henry Harrison Seeley1865Ordinary Seaman, Royal Navy · Bombardment of Shimonoseki
  4. James Smith1899Corporal, East Kent Regiment · Mohmand Campaign
  5. Gordon Campbell1917Commander, Royal Navy · First World War
  6. John Beeley1942Rifleman, The King's Royal Rifle Corps · Second World War
  7. George Ward Gunn1942Second Lieutenant, 3rd Regiment. Royal Horse Artillery · Second World War
  8. Rambahadur Limbu1966Lance-Corporal, 2nd Battalion. 10th Princess Mary's Gurkha Rifles · Malaysia-Indonesia Confrontation