Expedition Awards 

Each year The Ulysses Trust presents three expedition awards – recognising the very best expeditions undertaken by Reserves, Officer Cadets and Cadets. The winners are identified by a panel of the charity’s expedition experts during the first quarter of the following year and an announcement highlighting the winning expeditions is normally made by Easter. Each winning expedition receives a certificate. A breakdown of the history of the awards is detailed in the ‘Timeline’ section below.

If you would like further details about the expedition awards, please contact the Charity’s Awards Officer.

YEAR	RESERVE EXPEDITION	OFFICER CADET EXPEDITION	CADET EXPEDITION	Ref
2011	Exercise Antarctic Odyssey HQ ATG(A)	[1]	Exercise Corse Venturer Kelvinside Academy CCF	[2]
2012	Exercise Northern Yorkshire Splash 4 Yorks	Exercise Illimani Sunrise East Midlands UOTC	Exercise Scots Paddle Marine Society and Sea Cadets – Paddlesport Team	[2]
2013	Exercise Black Viking 4 PARA	Exercise Dragon Alpaca East Midlands UOTC	Exercise Snowdonia Start Gwent & Powys ACF	[2]
2014	Exercise Aoraki Serpent HQ 2 Med Bde	Exercise Blue Patrouilles des Glaciers Oxford UOTC	Exercise In The Footsteps of Lawrence – Jordan 2014 2427 (Biggin Hill) Sqn ATC	[2]
2015	Exercise Alpine Arc Joint Service	Exercise Rolling Eagle Exeter UOTC	Exercise Fistral Folly Durham ACF	[3]
2016	Exercise Dragon Sisimiut 3 Royal Welsh	Exercise Northern Bear 16 Northumbrian UOTC	Exercise Yukon Adventure Sussex Wing ATC	[3]
2017	Exercise SPEAR 17 British Army Reserves	Exercise Arctic Express 2017 London UOTC	Exercise Stirling Venturer 17 TS Stirling Sea Cadets	[3]
2018	Exercise Northern Amazon Serpent 2018 225 Medical Regiment	Exercise Guyan Emu East Midlands UAS	Exercise Incan Venture Sussex Wing ATC	[3] [4]
2019	Exercise Northern Scapa Tartan 2019 51st Highland 7th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland	Exercise Mongolian Endurance 2019 East of Scotland UAS	Exercise Tiger Venturer Matravers 2019 Matravers CCF	[3]
2020	See [5] below.	See [5] below.	See [5] below.	[3] [5]
2021	See [6] below.	See [6] below.	Exercise Artemis MMXXII No 2344 (Longbenton) Sqn ATC	[3] [6]
2022	Exercise Dragon Maple 2022 37 Signal Regiment	Exercise Arctic Express Leg 9 2022 London UOTC	Exercise Round the Island 2022 UTC Reading CCF	[2]

[1]	In 2011 there was no Officer Cadet Expedition category. These expeditions were included within the ‘Adult Reservist’ category.
[2]	The Ulysses Trust Expedition Awards.
[3]	HRH Prince of Wales’s Expeditionary Awards.
[4]	Additionally, a Prince of Wales’s Commendation was presented to Sergeant Jordan Beecher Oxfordshire ACF for Exercise Atlantic Trident.
[5]	Owing to the low number of expeditions in 2020 as a consequence of the pandemic no awards were made.
[6]	Owing to the pandemic only one award was presented in 2021 to reflect the unit showing the greatest tenacity when deploying faced with the raft of COVID-related rules and guidelines to be addressed.

Timeline

The awards began in 2011 and were first awarded at the Trust’s 20th Anniversary Event in 2012 by CDS (David Richards) and long-standing Trust supporter Ian Hannam.

In 2015, in recognition of being Patron for the previous 25 years, the Trust asked HRH The Prince of Wales if he would consider putting his name to the Expeditionary Awards, to which he agreed. He also agreed to personally sign each unit award certificate to recognise the significant achievement of the unit.

In 2018 a Prince of Wales’s Commendation was presented to Oxfordshire ACF for Exercise Atlantic Trident.

In 2020, owing to the low number of expeditions as a consequence of the pandemic, no awards were made.

In 2021, owing to the pandemic, only one award was presented to reflect the unit showing the greatest tenacity when deploying faced with the raft of COVID-related rules and guidelines to be addressed.

For 2022 only, owing to studies being undertaken to consider the former Prince of Wales’s patronages, the awards will be named ‘The Ulysses Trust Expedition Awards’ and certificates will be signed by the Chair.