The Bronze Lion was only introduced in 1944, although it is descended from another award that dates back to 1877. It is the equivelent of the Distinguished Service Order and Distinguished Conduct Medal.

 

CB = Companion of the Bath

DSO = Distinguished Service Order

MBE = Member of the British Empire

MC = Military Cross

MM = Military Medal

POW = Prisoner of War

RAMC = Royal Army Medical Corps

RMO = Regimental Medical Officer

 

1st Airborne Division

 

Name

Unit

Remarks

S/Sgt Albert Edward Allen

RAMC

-

Capt David Allsop

Reconnaissance Squadron

-

Lt Pat Barnett

1st Para Brigade HQ

Wounded

Sgt Dennis George Barrett

2nd South Staffords

-

RSM Michael Briody

Glider Pilot Regiment

MBE

Sgt Francis Edward Brown

10th Battalion

-

Maj Robert Buchanan

7th KOSB

POW

Sgt Henry Callaghan

3rd Battalion

-

Lt Brian Dean Carr

10th Battalion

-

Maj Robert Croot

Glider Pilot Regiment

-

R. Cullan

-

-

Sgt Emyr Glyn Edwards

1st Battalion

-

Lt Jack Hellingoe

1st Battalion

-

Lt Mike Holman

1st Border

Evacuated

Cpl. A. H. T. Italiaander

No.10 Commando

-

Sgt Thomas Henry Jones

1st Battalion

-

Sgt William James Kerr

11th Battalion

-

Cpl Albert Alexander Lancaster

9th Field Company

POW

D. F. Little

-

-

Capt James Logan DSO

2nd Battalion

POW

L/Sgt Donald Craig McRae

4th Para Brigade HQ

-

Maj Dennis Munford

Light Regiment

POW

Lt-Col Eddie Myers

HQ Royal Engineers

Evacuated

C. D. North-Lewis 

-

-

D. C. Pascall

-

-

F. T. Powell

-

-

L/Cpl Geoffrey Charles Stanners

16 Para Field Ambulance

Wounded, POW

Maj Ronnie Stark MC

1st Battalion

POW

J. S. Sutton

-

-

Lt-Col "Sheriff" Thompson MBE

Light Regiment

POW

Maj-Gen Roy Urquhart DSO

Divisional HQ

Evacuated, CB

Lt Alexis Peter Vedeniapine MM

3rd Battalion

-

G. H. Webb

-

-

Capt David Wright MC

HQ, 1st Parachute Brigade

POW

 

1st Polish Independent Parachute Brigade Group

 

Name

Unit

Remarks

Major-General Stanislaw Sosabowski

Brigade HQ

Awarded posthumously, 2006

 

 

Royal Air Force

 

Name

Unit

Air Vice-Marshal L. N. Hollinghurst

No.38 Group

Wing Commander J. A. Sproule

437 Squdadron RCAF