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Understanding the Military Cross: A Quiz

This quiz tests your knowledge about the Military Cross, an important military decoration, including its history, eligibility criteria, and notable recipients.

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1 What is Military Cross's current status?

2 The award was created in 1914 for commissioned officers of the substantive rank of Captain or below and for ________.

3 When was Military Cross established?

4 What type is thing is Military Cross?

5 In 1931, the award was extended to Majors and also to members of the ________ for actions on the ground.

6 Able Seaman ________, second woman, first in the Royal Navy, for acts in Afghanistan in March 2009 as a Medical Assistant attached to 1 RIFLES, 3 Commando Brigade.

7 ________

8 The Military Cross (MC) is the third level military decoration awarded to officers and (since 1993) other ranks of the ________ and formerly also to officers of other Commonwealth countries.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • William J.C. Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick, a British flying ace in the First World War, scored his first victory when he was a test pilot and was awarded the Military Cross for capturing that enemy plane.
  • Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, a British flying ace of World War I, scored 30 kills in five months of service and won both the DFC and MC.
  • Australian fighter pilot Lieutenant (later Air Vice Marshal) Adrian Cole (pictured) was awarded the Military Cross in 1917 for attacking six enemy aircraft threatening Allied cavalry.
  • Australian flying ace Raymond Brownell was awarded the Military Cross for shooting down six enemy aircraft over a three month period in the First World War.
  • during the First World War Edwin Flavell was awarded the Military Cross three times.
  • as well as being Australia's first military pilot, Henry Petre (pictured) led the Australian Flying Corps' first unit on active service and earned the DSO, MC and four Mentions in Despatches.
  • Peter Stevens, the only known German-Jewish RAF bomber pilot in WWII, enlisted using a stolen identity and later won a Military Cross for his attempts to escape from POW camps.
  • Michael Lockett, a British sergeant who was killed by a roadside bomb, was the first British soldier awarded the Military Cross to die in Afghanistan.
  • Sir Allan Quartermaine, a former member of the British Royal Fine Art Commission, was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry in the First World War.
  • Wales rugby international and Welsh Rugby Union Secretary Bill Clement was awarded the Military Cross for his actions in World War II.
  • Andrew Cowper (pictured) was awarded the Military Cross three times in the First World War for his efforts in destroying 19 German aircraft.
  • Henry Cronin won the Military Cross in the First World War for assaulting enemy positions and taking prisoners of war, despite being assigned to build field defences.
  • Kate Nesbitt, the first woman in the Royal Navy to be awarded the Military Cross for bravery in Afghanistan while attached to 3 Commando Brigade, is just 5 ft 0 in (1.52 m) tall.
  • Scotland rugby union player Duncan Macrae won a Military Cross for his actions as part of the 51st Highland Division at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
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