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I have moved a questionable recipient of the GC from the article, here to the talk page. I can find no reliable source for this trooper's award. Its not in the London Gazette and it does not show up in Google.
Are the Maltese, RUC and NHS recipients permitted to wear the medal? 104.153.40.58 ( talk) 00:51, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
The number of George Cross awards has been out of date in the Wikipedia article for some time. The major problem is that there has never been an official list of recipients. While all original awards except the first two collective awards have been gazetted, the 251 exchange awards have never been officially verified. The VC & GC Association, and their 2013 volumes, have been most helpful. There are 416 awards listed in Marian Hebblethwaite's, George Cross Encyclopedia, (2021) ISBN 978-1-9997057-3-2 and the readily assessable Victoria Cross Online. I have updated the totals using both references. I changed the subtitle 'Awards to Commonwealth citizens' to 'Awards to the Commonwealth' since there was no British or Commonwealth citizens until Canada started the ball rolling in 1946. Anthony Staunton ( talk) 12:14, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
Moved reference to the AM and EM cancellations to the previous sentence as verification that exchange of insignia was optional. As noted in my post above there is no official information from government on exchanges or numbers of awards. Anthony Staunton ( talk) 05:35, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
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I have moved a questionable recipient of the GC from the article, here to the talk page. I can find no reliable source for this trooper's award. Its not in the London Gazette and it does not show up in Google.
Are the Maltese, RUC and NHS recipients permitted to wear the medal? 104.153.40.58 ( talk) 00:51, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
The number of George Cross awards has been out of date in the Wikipedia article for some time. The major problem is that there has never been an official list of recipients. While all original awards except the first two collective awards have been gazetted, the 251 exchange awards have never been officially verified. The VC & GC Association, and their 2013 volumes, have been most helpful. There are 416 awards listed in Marian Hebblethwaite's, George Cross Encyclopedia, (2021) ISBN 978-1-9997057-3-2 and the readily assessable Victoria Cross Online. I have updated the totals using both references. I changed the subtitle 'Awards to Commonwealth citizens' to 'Awards to the Commonwealth' since there was no British or Commonwealth citizens until Canada started the ball rolling in 1946. Anthony Staunton ( talk) 12:14, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
Moved reference to the AM and EM cancellations to the previous sentence as verification that exchange of insignia was optional. As noted in my post above there is no official information from government on exchanges or numbers of awards. Anthony Staunton ( talk) 05:35, 16 December 2023 (UTC)