Editorial.Most members will receive this issue early October due to problems with the editor's computer. I will not bore you with the details but while most of my files were backed up I lost all me e-mail and contact details. Could all members who have ever submitted material to Sabretache e-mail me so I can reconstruct my contact list. Would anyone who e-mailed material in August and September resend the material. Twenty five years ago my first published Sabretache article was on the only woman recipient of the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. Medal of Honor Medal of Honor highest American military decoration for wartime gallantry. [Am. Hist.: Misc.] See : Bravery . This issue I include my fifth article on the Medal of Honor relating the first award for Iraq and the 39 belated awards since two awards for Somalia in the early 1990s. A 40th belated award will be presented on 25 September. The previous articles: Dr. Mary Walker, Medal of Honor recipient, Vol XXI No 1, Jan-Mar 80, pp. 47-52. The United States Medal of Honor (Vietnam awards), Vol XXIX No 3, Jul-Sep 88, pp. 23-29. US Medal of Honor: recent developments, Vol XXXIII No 3, Jul-Sep 92, pp. 29-35. US highest award for Somalia, Vol XXXV No 4, Oct-Dec 94, pp. 37-40. The 1980 article dealt with Dr Mary Walker whose Medal of Honor was one of 911 cancelled in 1916 following a review of all Army Medal of Honor awards. It was restored in 1977 and since then five other cancelled awards have been restored, two medals have been awarded for Somalia and this year the first medal for Iraq was awarded. Since 1977, 43 belated awards including one each from the American Civil War American Civil War or Civil War or War Between the States (1861–65) Conflict between the U.S. federal government and 11 Southern states that fought to secede from the Union. , Spanish American War and the First World War, 31 for the Second World War and nine for Vietnam have been awarded. Four of the belated awards have been covered in previous articles and the 39 belated awards since 1997 are covered in this issue. Citations for all 3400 Medals of Honor can be located on the US Army Center for Military History website at http://www.armv.mil/cmh-pg/Mohl.htm. There are a number of excellent Medal of Honor sites but I recommend http//www.homeofheroes.com. The webmaster is C. Douglas Sterner and his 2003 essay on "Medals of Honor belated awards & upgrades" is well worth reading at http://www.homeofheroes.com/talkingpoints/0301_belatedMOH.html. This issue might be remembered as our mutiny mutiny, concerted disobedient or seditious action by persons in military or naval service, or by sailors on commercial vessels. Mutiny may range from a combined refusal to obey orders to active revolt or going over to the enemy on the part of two or more persons. and treason issue. From three different eras three authors tell of two mutinies and the British Free Corps In World War II, the British Free Corps (BFC) or sometimes incorrectly referred to in the German form as Britisches Freikorps was a unit of the Waffen-SS consisting of British and Dominion prisoners of war who had been recruited by the Nazis. . Welcome back to Clem Sargent whose first Sabretache article was in 1965. Although convict uprisings of 1834 and 1846 at Norfolk Island Norfolk Island (nôr`fək), island (2005 est. pop. 1,800), 13 sq mi (34 sq km), South Pacific, a territory of Australia, c.1,035 mi (1,670 km) NE of Sydney. are well known Clem tells the story of the mutiny on the 80th Regiment in 1839. Peter Hopper and Rohan Goyne contribute their first Sabretache articles. Peter writes on the 1916 AIF AIF Annual Information Form AIF Apoptosis-Inducing Factor AIF Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie (French: Intergovernmental Agency for Francophony) AIF Australian Imperial Force Mutiny at Casula, southwest of Sydney, while Rohan relates the story of the British Free Corps in the Second World War. Compulsory Military Training (CMT CMT Certified Medical Transcriptionist. CMT abbr. Certified Medical Transcriptionist CMT California mastitis test. ) in Australia prior to the First World War was written by ADFA ADFA Australian Defence Force Academy ADFA Associação dos Deficientes das Forças Armadas (Portugal) ADFA Arkansas Development Finance Authority (Arkansas) ADFA Australian Dried Fruits Association Cadet Samuel Duncan who was the winner of the 2004 ADFA History Prize sponsored by the Society. Tom Johnstone is welcomed back with the first of two parts on the Secret War 1914-1918. Anthony Staunton Editor |
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