Order of Abdon Calderón
Order of Abdón Calderón | |
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Awarded by Ecuador | |
Type | Order |
Awarded for | Extraordinary military service |
Status | Currently constituted |
Grades | First Class Second Class Third Class |
Statistics | |
First induction | 1904 |
Precedence | |
Next (higher) | National Order of Merit |
Next (lower) | National Order of Honorato Vásquez |
Ribbon bars of the order (from top to bottom): First Class, Second Class and Third Class |
The Order of Abdón Calderón is an Ecuadorian decoration instituted in 1904 and awarded for extraordinary military service. It is named after , the revolutionary hero who died from injuries sustained on May 24, 1822 during the Battle of Pichincha.
Grades and distinctions[]
Recipients are awarded the decoration for extraordinary military service.[1]
The order has three grades:[1]
- First Class
- Second Class
- Third Class
The ribbon of the order is half yellow, half blue and red. The class of the order is denoted by a star. The First Class star is gold, Second Class is silver, and Third Class is bronze.
Notable recipients[]
- Edward M. Almond
- Frank Maxwell Andrews
- Edwin Burr Babbitt
- Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld
- Alfred Winsor Brown
- Charles H. Corlett
- Malin Craig
- Willis D. Crittenberger
- Pedro del Valle
- Robert L. Eichelberger
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- William Halsey, Jr.
- Thomas T. Handy
- Harold D. Hansen
- Harold R. Harris
- Ernest King
- Henry Balding Lewis
- Douglas MacArthur
- George Marshall
- Paco Moncayo
- John C. Munn
- Chester W. Nimitz
- James Garesche Ord[2]
- Harvey Overesch
- Alexander Patch
- Cosimo Rennella
- William R. Schmidt
- John F. Shafroth Jr.
- Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr.
- Alexander Vandegrift
- Francis Bowditch Wilby
- Charles A. Willoughby
- Edward Ellsberg
- Augusto Pinochet
Sources and references[]
- ^ a b Medals.org.uk. "ODM of Ecuador: Order of Abdon Calderón". Retrieved May 1, 2013.
- ^ Cullum, George Washington; Holden, Edward Singleton (1950). Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy. Vol. 9. Houghton, Mifflin. p. 133. OCLC 5206552.
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