Annual General Meeting 2022

Wednesday 27th April 2022

The 2022 Annual General Meeting and Templer awards ceremony took place on 27 April at the National Army Museum in London. The evening began with the Annual General Meeting; gathering in person at an AGM for the first time since 2019, members reviewed the society’s activities, elected and re-elected members of council, and passed several motions and constitutional amendments. Afterwards, members were treated to an excellent lecture by Nicholas Perry, who won the 2020 Templer Best First Book prize with his biography of Major-General Oliver Nugent. Perry considered Nugent’s personality and varied career while emphasizing the importance of studying military and regimental history, making connections between Nugent’s times and the challenges of the twenty-first century. The evening continued with the presentation of the Templer Medal and the Best First Book Prize. This year’s student essay winners were also recognized. The event concluded with a convivial wine reception.

The results for the SAHR Templer Medal were as follows:

Winner - The 1945 Burma Campaign and the Transformation of the British Indian Army by Prof Raymond Callahan and Prof Daniel Marston (University Press of Kansas)

Runner-up (Second Place) - Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo by Prof Christine Helliwell (Penguin Australia)

Commended (Third Place) - The British Army, 1714-1783: An Institutional History by Prof Stephen Conway (Pen & Sword)

The results for the SAHR Templer Best First Book Prize were as follows:

Winner - The Changing of the Guard: The British Army since 9/11 by Simon Akam (Scribe)

Runner-up (Second Place) - The Regiment that Mapped the World by the late Maj Alan Gordon (Royal Engineers Association)

Commended (Third Place) - Indian Soldiers in World War I: Race and Representation in an Imperial War by Dr Andrew Jarboe (University of Nebraska Press)

The results of the Undergraduate Student Essay Prize were as follows:

First Prize: Christopher Conway (University of Oxford) with 'British Amphibious Operations in the Atlantic, 1739-1763'
Runner-up: Robert Hoehne (University of Hagen, Germany) with 'Success and Failure of the British North Russia Intervention (1919-1920)'

The SAHR is very grateful to the National Army Museum for kindly hosting the evening's proceedings and for again generously contributing to the Templer Medal prize fund.

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