On this day: 26 August

10 acts of valour and 2 Gazette announcements fall on 26 August.

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Actions on 26 August

  1. Job Henry Charles Drain1914Driver (later Sergeant), 37th Battery Royal Field Artillery · First World War
  2. Frederick William Holmes1914Lance-Corporal, 2nd Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry · First World War
  3. Frederick Luke1914Driver, Royal Field Artillery · First World War
  4. Douglas Reynolds1914Captain, 37th Battery. Royal Field Artillery · First World War
  5. George Wyatt1914Lance Corporal, Coldstream Guards · First World War
  6. Charles Yate1914Major, King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry) · First World War
  7. Sidney James Day1917Corporal, 11th Battalion the Suffolk Regiment (Norwich) · First World War
  8. Reginald Stanley Judson1918Sergeant, 1st Battalion. Auckland Light Infantry. New Zealand Expeditionary Force · First World War
  9. Charles Smith Rutherford1918Lieutenant, 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles.* Canadian Expeditionary Force · First World War
  10. Henry Weale1918Lance Corporal, Royal Welsh Fusiliers · First World War

Gazetted on 26 August

  1. James William Adams1881The Reverend, Bengal Ecclesiastical Department, Indian Army · Second Afghan War
  2. Reginald Roy Rattey1945Corporal, 25th Battalion. Australian Military Forces · Second World War