On this day: 8 June

4 acts of valour and 23 Gazette announcements fall on 8 June.

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Actions on 8 June

  1. Cornelius Coughlan*1857Colour-Sergeant, 75th Regiment. (Gordon Highlanders) · Indian Mutiny
  2. Henry Hartigan1857Pensioned Sergeant, 9th Lancers. (Queen's Royal) · Indian Mutiny
  3. Alfred Stowell Jones1857Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel), 9th Lancers. (The Queen's Royal) · Indian Mutiny
  4. Joseph Kaeble1918Corporal, 22nd Battalion. Quebec Regiment (French-Canadian) Canadian Expeditionary Force · First World War

Gazetted on 8 June

  1. Charles George Baker1917Lieutenant, Bengal Police Battalion · Indian Mutiny
  2. Harry Cator1917Sergeant, 7th Battalion East Surrey Regiment · First World War
  3. John Cunningham1917Corporal, 2nd Battalion, Prince of Wales Leinster Regiment · First World War
  4. Michael Heaviside1917Private, 15th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry · First World War
  5. Edward Elars Delaval Henderson1917Lieutenant Colonel, North Staffordshire Regiment attached and commanding 9th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment · First World War
  6. George Jarratt1917Corporal, 8th Battalion. Royal Fusilier · First World War
  7. Jorgan Christian Jensen1917Private, 50th Battalion (South Australia). Australian Imperial Force · First World War
  8. Thomas James Bede Kenny1917Privates Second, Battalion (New South Wales) Australian Imperial Force · First World War
  9. Frederick William Lumsden1917Major, Royal Marine Artillery · First World War
  10. Thain Wendell Macdowell1917Captain, 38th Ottawa Battalion. Eastern Ontario Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force · First World War
  11. Donald Mackintosh1917Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion. Seaforth Highlanders · First World War
  12. William Frederick Mcfadzean1917Private, 14th Battalion. Royal Irish Rifles · First World War
  13. Frank Hubert Mcnamara1917Lieutenant, 1 Squadron Australian Flying Corps · First World War
  14. William Johnstone Milne1917Private, 16th Battalion. Canadian Scottish. Canadian Expeditionary Force · First World War
  15. John Ernest Newland1917Captain, 12th Battalion * Australian Imperial Force
  16. John William Ormsby1917Sergeant, 2nd Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry · First World War
  17. Robert Edwin Phillips1917Lieutenant, 13th Battalion. (attached 9th Service Battn). Royal Warwickshire Regiment · First World War
  18. Charles Pope1917Lieutenant, 11th Battalion. * Australian Imperial Force · First World War
  19. Thomas Steele1917Sergeant, 1st. Battalion. Seaforth Highlanders · First World War
  20. Ernest Sykes1917Private, 27th (Service) Battalion. Northumberland Fusiliers · First World War
  21. Horace Waller1917Private, 10th Service Battalion. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry · First World War
  22. Frederick Maurice Watson Harvey1918Lieutenant, Lord Strathcona's Horse, CEF · First World War
  23. Lorne McLaine Campbell1943Lieutenant Colonel, Comd.7th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. (Princess Louise's) · Second World War