List of Medal of Honnor w/ crossed palms

[Angelous 10]

My father in law recently received this award. For Christmas I wanted to build him a display case for this award as well as a list of all of those that have received it. I have searched high and low and cannot find a list anywhere...please help me!!!!

[scoutldr 732]

I;m not aware that it's published anywhere. Your best bet is to call National BSA HQ in Irving, TX. BTW, it's called the "Honor Medal". The Medal of Honor is the military award.

 

I think the nicely framed medal and accomanying citation would be enough...I don't see how names of other people would add anything. Never seen that done before....my two cents.

 

Congratulations to your FIL...it's an extremely rare award.

[frank10 12]

OK, you can't just drop in and then not tell us what he did to earn it... fill us in (please).

[Miki101 14]

There is no complete list of Honor Medal Recipients that is outside of the BSA Offices. However, I have copies of many of the records of the earliest recipients from its inception till about 1940 that I gathered for my book research. The actual list would stretch at least into the thousands if you included all who received the minimum level of the award.

 

I am not an expert on this award. Hoqwever, a person you might want to contact is Dr. Robert Lee Edmonds, who has been researching this topic for his upcoming book: "High Honors, A Century of Heroism and Meritorious Action in the Boy Scouts of America." He is an Honor Medal recipient himself.

 

You can try him at rledmonds@redhonor.com

 

David C. Scott

[Angelous 10]

thank you for all your replys.

 

Here is a link to the article the Atlanta Journal wrote:

 

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cherokee/stories/2008/10/10/rescued_from_fire.html

 

I will indeed contact the gentleman you have suggested. Thank you!

[NeilLup 13]

What a wonderful accomplishment, Angelous! Congratulations to you and your father-in-law.

 

This is an extraordinarily rare award. I'm not sure about the 200 since 1924 number but to give you an idea, in a typical year, there are

 

About 50,000 Eagle Scout Badges presented

About 2000 Silver Beavers

 

About 150 Medals of Merit

About 250 Heroism Award, Honor Medal and Honor Medal with Crossed Palms

 

In a very unusual year, there may be 10 Honor Medals with Crossed Palms; more commonly, I believe the number in a year would be 5 or fewer.

 

I have witnessed a number of National Court of Honor presentations and have had the privilege of presenting several Medals of Merit, Heroism Awards and Honor medals. But I have never even seen or met a Scout or Scouter honored with the Honor Medal with Crossed Palms.

 

Wow!