Home Calendar On this day 23 August On this day: 23 August 10 acts of valour and 12 Gazette announcements fall on 23 August.
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Actions on 23 August William Edward Heaton 1900 Private, 1st Battalion, King's (Liverpool) Regiment · Second Boer War Maurice James Dease 1914 Lieutenant, 4th Battalion. Royal Fusiliers · First World War Charles Ernest Garforth 1914 Corporal, 15th Hussars (The King's) · First World War Sidney Frank Godley 1914 Private, 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers · First World War Charles Alfred Jarvis 1914 Lance-Corporal, 57th Field Company Royal Engineers · First World War Theodore Wright 1914 Captain, Corps of Royal Engineers · First World War William Donovan Joynt 1918 Lieutenant, 8th Battalion (Victoria). Australian Imperial Force · First World War Lawrence Dominic Mccarthy 1918 Lieutenant, 16th Battalion * Australian Imperial Force · First World War Hugh Mciver 1918 Private, Royal Scots · First World War Edward Smith 1918 Lance-Sergeant, 1st/5th Battalion. Lancashire Fusiliers · First World War Gazetted on 23 August William Gardner 1858 Colour-Sergeant, 42nd Regiment · Indian Mutiny Peter Gill 1858 Sergeant-Major, Loodiana Regiment · Indian Mutiny Matthew Rosamund 1858 Sergeant-Major, 37th Bengal Native Infantry · Indian Mutiny John Adam Tytler 1858 Lieutenant, 66th Bengal Native Infantry · Indian Mutiny John Fitzhardinge Paul Butler 1915 Lieutenant, The King's Royal Rifle Corps, atchd., Pioneer Company, Gold Coast Regiment, West African Field Force · First World War Frederick William Campbell 1915 Lieutenant, 1st. Battalion Western Ontario Regiment. C E F · First World War William Cosgrove 1915 Corporal, 1st Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers · First World War Charles Calveley Foss 1915 Captain, 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment · First World War John Aiden Liddell 1915 Captain, 3rd Battalion. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, also the Royal Flying Corps · First World War Issy Smith 1915 Corporal, 1st Battalion. Manchester Regiment · First World War Richard Wallace Annand 1940 Second Lieutenant (later Captaain), 2nd Battalion The Durham Light Infantry · Second World War George Gristock 1940 Company Sergeant-Major, Royal Norfolk Regiment · Second World War
