Bravery Meeting 83 (Australia)
The Bravery Council of Australia Meeting 83 Honours List was announced by the Governor General of Australia, Sir Peter Cosgrove on 19 August 2015.[1]
Awards were announced for the Star of Courage,[2] the Bravery Medal,[3] Commendation for Brave Conduct[4] and Group Bravery Citation.[5]
Star of Courage (SC)
For acts of conspicuous courage in circumstances of great peril.
- The late Pilot Officer James Wallace Hocking - Queensland.
Bravery Medal (BM)
For acts of bravery in hazardous circumstances.
- Mustafa Ruhi Akkan -Sydney, New South Wales
- Murray Charles Barnewall - Port Campbell, Victoria.
- Senior Constable Benjamin Douglas Bjarnesen - Queensland Police Service
- Elissa Marie Clarke - Adelaide, South Australia.
- Assistant Commissioner Michal James Condon APM - Queensland Police Service.
- Ashley Ryan Coster - Cloverlea, Victoria.
- Timothy Shaun Coster - Cloverlea, Victoria.
- Jackson Douglas Hillier - Bonbeach, Victoria.
- Soichi Kawabata - Victoria.
- Senior Sergeant Peter Gerhard Liebig - Queensland Police Service.
- Brendan Lys - Queensland.
- Jai McKneil - Gladstone, Queensland.
- Senior Sergeant Christopher Maskell - Queensland Police Service.
- Ryan Alexander Nally - Queensland.
- Senior Constable Nigel Ross O'Keefe - Queensland Police Service.
- Senior Sergeant Michael James Pearson APM - Queensland Police Service.
- Nattapat Penpanussak - Annandale, New South Wales.
- The late Senior Constable David James Rixton - New South Wales Police Force
- Thomas James Smith - Cloverlea, Victoria.
- Aleziah Spiers - South Australia.
- Jamie Alan Strong - Berry, New South Wales.
- Constable Cameron Wallace - Victoria Police
- Senior Constable Joel Michael Whittred - Queensland Police Service.
- Leading Senior Constable Jenny Ann Wiltshire - Victoria Police.
- Joseph Zaghini - Severnlea, Victoria.
Commendation for Brave Conduct
For acts of bravery considered worthy of recognition
- Senior Constable Teresa Elizabeth Anderson - Queensland Police Service.
- Senior Constable Shane Grey Ashton - Queensland Police Service.
- Constable Megan Jane Brunton - Queensland Police Service.
- Mario Casa - Oakleigh South, Victoria.
- Daniel Luke Coster - Cloverlea, Victoria.
- Robert Edward Coster - Cloverlea, Victoria.
- William Edward Denny - Rostrevor, South Australia.
- Robin Jeffrey Everden - Molloy Island, Western Australia.
- Lieutenant Colonel Graham Malcolm Goodwin - South Australia.
- Dylan Reece Hodge - Rockhampton, Queensland.
- Michael William Jones - New South Wales
- Jeffrey Edward Jorgensen - Springfield Lakes, Queensland.
- Jeremy Adrian Linton - Montrose, Victoria
- Andrew James Lock OAM - Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
- Mark Anthony McCarthy - Collie, Western Australia.
- Alan Robert Milner - Strathfieldsaye, Victoria.
- Senior Constable Leonard Joseph Moroney - Queensland Police Service.
- John Arron North - Kings Park, Victoria.
- Adrian James Pendergast - Eight Mile Plains, Queensland.
- Salvatore Raciti - Melbourne, Victoria.
- Robert William Starbuck - Doreen, Victoria.
- Carter Davis Travis - Queensland.
- Bruce Richard Waldron - Coooibah, Queensland.
Group Bravery Citation
For a collective act of bravery, by a group of persons in extraordinary circumstances, that is considered worthy of recognition.
- Rodney Hugh Guest - East Ballina, New South Wales.
- Tony Brian Handcock - Ballina, New South Wales.
- David Jamieson Nockolds - Ballina, New South Wales.
Awardees are members and former members of Queensland Police who removed a suspected explosive from an offender at Logan, Queensland on 2 November 1998.
- Detective Senior Constable Peter John Bowser - Queensland Police Service.
- Assistant Commissioner Michael James Condon APM - Queensland Police Service.
- Senior Sergeant Peter Gerhard Liebig - Queensland Police Service.
- Senior Sergeant Michael James Pearson APM - Queensland Police Service.
- Sergeant Paul David Williams - Queensland Police Service.
- Joseph Zaghini - Servernlea, Queensland.
Awardees are three members of Queensland Police and a member of the public who entered a burning unit in search of a man at Roma, Queensland on 28 October 2012.
- Senior Constable Benjamin Douglas Bjarnesen - Queensland Police Service
- Senior Constable Michael Charles Hewitt - Queensland Police Service.
- Constable Stuart Benjamin Mitcheley - Queensland Police Service.
- James Charles Perren - Queensland.
Awardees are four members of Queensland Police who rescued an elderly woman from a stricken vessel in the flooded Burnett River at Bundaberg, Queensland on 26 January 2013.
- Detective Senior Constable Jon Allan Murray.
- Constable Brent James Schultz.
- Senior Constable Donita Maree Stains
- Senior Constable Ryan Barry Thompson.
Awardees are members of Queensland Police who were ambushed and fired upon while attending a neighbourhood dispute at West Chermside, Queensland on 1 May 2000.
- Senior Sergeant Daryl Elliott Green.
- Senior Constable Sharnelle Patricia Harris.
- Sergeant Christopher John Mulhall.
Sergeant Brett Andrew Price.
Awardees are members of staff who prevented several mental health patients from leaving a Hospital in Queensland on 19 January 2013.
- Richard Vincent Ashton - Toowoomba, Queensland.
- Geo Parakalayil George - Ooralea, Queensland.
- Duncan Grills - Queensland.
- Linda Susan Herbertson - Murphy's Creek, Queensland.
- Thomas James McGovern - Toowoomba, Queensland.
- Thomas Mathew - Glenvale, Queensland.
References
- Australian Bravery Decorations Honours List (19 August 2015, www.gg.gov.au
- Star of Courage Citations, August 2015, www.gg.gov.au
- Bravery Medal Citations Archived 2017-04-07 at the Wayback Machine, August 2015, www.gg.gov.au
- Commendations for Brave Conduct, August 2015, www.gg.gov.au
- Group Bravery Citation, August 2015, www.gg.gov.au
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