On this day: 17 October

1 act of valour and 10 Gazette announcements fall on 17 October.

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Actions on 17 October

  1. Collingwood Dickson1854Lieutenant-Colonel (later General), Royal Regiment of Artillery · Crimean War

Gazetted on 17 October

  1. Harry Brown1917Private, 10th Battalion Quebec Regiment, C E F · First World War
  2. William Boynton Butler1917Private, 17th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment attached 106th Battery · First World War
  3. John Carmichael1917Sergeant, 9th Battalion The North Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales) · First World War
  4. Sidney James Day1917Corporal, 11th Battalion the Suffolk Regiment (Norwich) · First World War
  5. Frederick Hobson1917Sergeant, 20th Battalion, 1st Central Ontario Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force · First World War
  6. John Moyney1917Lance-Sergeant, 2nd Battalion. Irish Guards · First World War
  7. Harry Falconer Parsons1917Second Lieutenant, 14th (Service) Battalion. Gloucestershire Regiment · First World War
  8. Frederick George Room1917Private, 2nd Battalion. Royal Irish Regiment · First World War
  9. Wilfred Wood1917Private, 10th Battalion The Northumberland Fusiliers · First World War
  10. John Daniel Hinton1941Sergeant, 20th Battalion, 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force (Canterbury Regiment) · Second World War