2025 Templer Medal and Chapple Prize Winners
Friday 1st May 2026
We are pleased to announce the full list of winners for the 2025 Templer Medal and Chapple Prize, as follows:
Templer Medal
Winner
Dr David Grummitt, Open University, for The Wars of the Roses: War and Martial Culture in England, 1455-1487 (Oxford University Press).
First Runner Up
Lieutenant Colonel (Ret’d) Derek Plews, Independent Scholar, for Shamrocks among the Poppies: Musa Qal’eh 2006 – A Bloody Siege and the Failures behind it (Helion).
Joint Second Runners Up
Professor Brian Farrell, National University of Singapore, for Misfire: British Empire Special Forces and the Defeat in Malaya in WW2 (University Press of Kansas).
Dr Dermot Rooney, Independent Scholar, for Slog or Swan: British Army Effectiveness in Operation Veritable, February and March 1945 (Helion).
Chapple Prize
Winner
Dr Alexander S. Burns, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, for Infantry in Battle, 1733-1783 (Helion).
Runner Up
Dr Joel Morley, University of Bristol for, Joining Up in the Second World War: Enlistment, Masculinity and Memory of the Great War (Manchester University Press).