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Victoria Cross Recipients
Victoria Cross Recipients
British & Commonwealth recipients of the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy"
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Born 1884
Died 1917
British Army Lieutenant Royal Army Medical Corps
British Army Captain Royal Army Medical Corps attd. 1st/10th Bn. The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
More about Noel Godfrey Chavasse -
Born 1890
Died 1918
Canadian Expeditionary Force 475212
Canadian Expeditionary Force 475212 Sergeant Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
More about Robert Spall -
Born 1895
Died 1918
British Army 5615 Private Army Cyclist Corps
British Army 40684 Serjeant Lancashire Fusiliers
British Army 13684 Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
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More about Harold John Colley -
Born 1891
Died 1967
British Army 91608 Sapper Royal Engineers
British Army Lieutenant Royal Engineers
British Army Major Royal Engineers
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More about James Lennox Dawson -
Born 1877
Died 1966
British Army Captain Lancashire Fusiliers
British Army Lieutenant Colonel Lancashire Fusiliers
British Army Captain Lancashire Fusiliers 1st Battalion
More about Richard Raymond Willis -
Born 1886
Died 1915
British Army 1809 Private Lancashire Fusiliers
British Army 1809 Lance Sergeant Lancashire Fusiliers 1st Battalion
More about William Stephen Keneally -
Born 1897
Died 1918
British Army Captain Royal Warwickshire Regiment
More about Julian Royds Gribble -
Born 1888
Died 1984
Canadian Expeditionary Force 107473
Canadian Expeditionary Force Captain Canadian Mounted Rifles 5th Battalion
Canadian Expeditionary Force Major Canadian Mounted Rifles 5th Battalion
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More about George Randolph Pearkes -
Born 1880
Died 1917
Canadian Expeditionary Force Lieutenant Canadian Infantry
More about Robert Grierson Combe -
Born 1892
Died 1955
British Army 14603 Serjeant Northamptonshire Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant Northamptonshire Regiment
British Army Lieutenant Northamptonshire Regiment
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More about William Ewart Boulter -
Born 1888
Died 1966
British Army Royal Army Service Corps attached Northamptonshire Regiment
British Army Lieutenant Royal Army Service Corps
British Army Major Royal Army Service Corps
More about Alfred Cecil Herring -
Born 1892
Died 1918
Canadian Expeditionary Force 410935 Private
More about Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney -
Born 1893
Died 1958
Canadian Expeditionary Force 404017 Corporal 3rd (Toronto) Battalion
More about Colin Fraser Barron -
Born 1892
Died 1933
British Army Lieutenant Royal Army Medical Corps 3rd West Riding Field Ambulance
British Army Major Royal Army Medical Corps
British Army Captain Royal Army Medical Corps
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More about William Barnsley Allen -
Born 1883
Died 1918
British Army 79152 Private 31st Garrison Infantry Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant 15th Royal Irish Rifles
More about Edmund De Wind -
British Army 71100 Serjeant Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
More about Ernest Albert Egerton -
Born 1896
Died 1917
British Army 1021 Private Middlesex Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant Acting Captain Northamptonshire Regiment
British Army 1021 Captain Northamptonshire Regiment 2nd Battalion
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More about Thomas Riversdale Colyer-Fergusson -
Born 1891
Died 1952
British Army Second Lieutenant Ghurka Rifles
British Army Captain Ghurka Rifles
British Army 3902 Company Serjeant Major Royal Welsh Fusiliers
More about Frederick Barter -
Born 1897
Died 1968
British Army Second Lieutenant South Staffordshire Regiment
British Army Flight Officer Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force
More about Alan Jerrard -
Born 1891
Died 1977
British Army 8581 Company Serjeant Major East Lancashire Regiment
British Army Private East Lancashire Regiment 1st Battalion
British Army 8581 Acting Sergeant East Lancashire Regiment 1st Battalion
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More about Spencer John Bent