1236 The Samogitians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule. W
1499 The Treaty of Basel concludes the Swabian War. W
1586 The Battle of Zutphen is a Spanish victory over the English and Dutch. W
1711 The Tuscarora War begins in present-day North Carolina. W
1789 Battle of Rymnik: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces. W
1857 The Russian warship Lefort capsizes and sinks during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, killing all 826 aboard. W
1866 The Battle of Curupayty is Paraguay's only significant victory in the Paraguayan War.W
1939 World War II: A joint German–Soviet military parade in Brest-Litovsk is held to celebrate the successful invasion of Poland.W
The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify Her intention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on the undermentioned Officer, whose claims have been submitted for Her Majesty's approval, for his conspicuous bravery during the attack on the Baggage Guard at the action of Gedarif on the 22nd September 1898, as recorded against his name: On the 22nd September 1898, Captain Hore-Ruthven, seeing an Egyptian officer lying wounded within 50 yards of the advancing Dervishes, who were firing and charging, picked him up and carried him towards the 16th Egyptian Battalion. He dropped the wounded officer two or three times and fired upon the Dervishes, who were following, to check their advance. Had the officer been left where he first dropped, he must have been killed W
1917
For his actions this day Reginald Roy Inwood was Awarded the Victoria Cross
For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty during the advance to the second objective. He moved forward through our barrage alone to an enemy strong post and captured it, together with nine prisoners, killing several of the enemy. During the evening he volunteered for a special all night patrol, which went out 600 yards in front of our line, and there – by his coolness and sound judgment – obtained and sent back very valuable information as to the enemy's movements. In the early morning of the 21 September, Private Inwood located a machine gun which was causing several casualties. He went out alone and bombed the gun and team, killing all but one, whom he brought in as a prisoner with the gun.
For his actions this day Commander Donald Cameron and Lieutenant Donald Cameron, was awarded the Victoria Cross
ADMIRALTY.
Whitehall. 22nd February, 1944.
The KING has been graciously pleased to approve the award of the VICTORIA CROSS for valour to:
Lieutenant Basil Charles Godfrey Place, D.S.C., Royal Navy.
Lieutenant Donald Cameron, R.N.R.
Lieutenants Place and Cameron were the Commanding Officers of two of His Majesty's Midget Submarines X 7 and X 6 which on 22nd September 1943 carried out a most daring and successful attack on the German Battleship Tirpitz, moored in the protected anchorage of Kaafiord, North Norway.
To reach the anchorage necessitated the penetration of an enemy minefield and a passage of fifty miles up the fiord, known to be vigilantly patrolled by the enemy and to be guarded by nets, gun defences and listening posts, this after a passage of at least a thousand miles from base.
Having successfully eluded all these hazards and entered the fleet anchorage, Lieutenants Place and Cameron, with a complete disregard for danger, worked their small craft past the close anti-submarine and torpedo nets surrounding the Tirpitz, and from a position inside these nets, carried out a cool and determined attack.
Whilst they were still inside the nets a fierce enemy counter attack by guns and depth charges developed which made their withdrawal impossible. Lieutenants Place and Cameron therefore scuttled their craft to prevent them falling into the hands of the enemy. Before doing so they took every measure to ensure the safety of their crews, the majority of whom, together with themselves, were subsequently taken prisoner.
In the course of the operation these very small craft pressed home their attack to the full, in doing so accepting all the dangers inherent in such vessels and facing every possible hazard which ingenuity could devise for the protection in harbour of vitally important Capital Ships.
The courage, endurance and utter contempt for danger in the immediate face of the enemy shown by Lieutenants Place and Cameron during this determined and successful attack were supreme.
1965 The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the United Nations calls for a ceasefire. W
1980 Iraq invades Iran, sparking the nearly eight year Iran–Iraq War. W
1989
Today marks 33rd anniversary of Deal bombing at the Royal Marines School of Music, where we lost 11 brothers and many injured. Never forgotten by the Corps Family, our thoughts are with the families and friends of those lost on that day. RIP Royals @RMBandService @LtGenMagowan pic.twitter.com/VYJUtOnGsY
— Globe & Laurel Mag (@GlobenLaurel) September 22, 2022
1995 An E-3B AWACS crashes outside Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board are killed. v
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