2025 Annual General Meeting & Prizegiving Reception
Wednesday 30th April 2025
The 2025 Templer Annual General Meeting & Prizegiving Reception was held on Wednesday 30 April at the Honourable Artillery Company (HAC) in London.
The following prizes, which are generously supported by our friends at the National Army Museum, were awarded by our President.
TEMPLER MEDAL for best book on British Military History published in 2024
1st Place (Medal winner): Templer medal + £2000
Professor Kevin Linch, The British Army, 1783-1815 (Pen & Sword).
2nd Place (Runner Up): £1000
Professor David Lambert, Soldiers of Uncertain Rank: The West India Regiments in British Imperial Culture (Cambridge University Press).
Joint 3rd Place (Runner Up): £200 each
Lt. Colonel Sergio Miller, Pride and Fall: The British Army in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 (Bloomsbury).
Lt. General Sir John Kiszely, General Hastings ‘Pug’ Ismay: Soldier, Statesman, Diplomat - A New Biography (Hurst).
CHAPPLE PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK on British military history published in 2024
1st Place (Best First Book): Engraved Dartington Crystal + £1000
Dr Roger Wood, The Best of Appointments? The Evolution of Infantry Brigade Command in the British Army on the Western Front, 1915-18 (Helion).
2nd Place (Runner Up): £200
Dr Dennis Vincent, The Forgotten General: Sir Alan Cunningham (Amberley).
3rd Place (Runner Up): £200
Dr Stephen Quick, The Dhofar War: British Covert Campaigning in Arabia, 1965-1975 (University of Exeter Press).
