The HBSA President’s Cup

For outstanding scholarship in the field of firearms’ research

The HBSA welcomes nominations or recommendations for this award

HBSA President's Cup

History of Awards

2023

  • Dr Nicholas Harlow – James Woodward & Sons 

2022

  • Brian C Knapp –  The Capping Breech Loader in British and Colonial Military Service 1838-1869, Volumes 1 & 2

2021

  • Jonathan Ferguson – Bullpup Rifles

2020

  • Bucholz and Bruggen -German Machine Guns Developments, Tactics and Use 

2019

  • Frank Bucholtz and Thomas Bruggen – German Machine Guns Developments, Tactics, and Use from 1892 to 1918

2018

  • Donald Dallas – Alexander Henry Rifle Maker

2017

  • Robert Wilsey – The Italian Vetterli Rifle: development, variants and history in service

2016

  • Tom Davis Jr. – Great Britain-The Tommy Gun Story
    As Tom Davis Jr is a US citizen resident abroad, he receives the Gold Medal
    We agree that James West should be awarded the Cup for his outstanding research contribution to the book

2015

  • No award

2014

  • Awarded jointly to Tony Edwards and Dr Dieter Storz
    Tony Edwards – British Secondary Arms of the Great War: The Arisaka in British Service
    Dr Dieter Storz–German Military Rifles. From the Werder rifle to the M71/84

2013

  • David Harding – Lead Shot in the English Civil War: A Radical Study

2012

  • Luke Mercaldo, Adam Firestone and Anthony Vanderlinden – Allied Rifle Contracts in America

2011

  • David Thomas – British Pistol in Great War
    shared with
    Guy Wilson – Vauxhall Operatory

2010

  • Paul Cornish – Machine Guns in the Great War

2009

  • Terence Smith – rifleman.org.uk website

2008

  • Dieter Storz – Mauser 98 in German Service (President’s Medal since not UK citizen)

2007

  • Nigel Brown – British Gunmakers