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Recipients of the Victoria Cross

Royal Northumberland Fusiliers

Name:

Sgt Grant Robert
Date: 24 September 1857
Place: Lucknow
Unit: 1st Battalion

Name:

Pte McManus Peter
Date: 26 September 1857
Place: Lucknow
Unit: 1st Battalion

Name:

Pte McHale Patrick
Date: 2 October 1857
Place: Lucknow
Unit: 1st Battalion

Name:

LCpl Bryan Thomas
Date: 9 April 1917
Place: Arras, France
Unit: 25th (Tyneside (Vimmy Ridge) Irish) Battalion

Name:

Pte Sykes Ernest
Date: 19 April 1917
Place: Arras, France
Unit: 27th (Servie) Battalion

Name:

2Lt Youll John Scott
Date: 15 June 1918
Place: Asiago, Italy
Unit: 1st Battalion (att 11th Service Battalion)

Name:

2Lt Johnson James
Date: 14 October 1918
Place: Wez Macquart, France
Unit: 2nd Battalion (att 36th Battalion)

Name:

Pte Wood Wilfred
Date: 28 October 1918
Place: Casa Van, Italy
Unit: 10th (service) Battalion

Name:

Capt Jackman James Joseph
Date: 25 November 1941
Place: El Duda, Western Desert
Unit: 1st Battalion

Name:

Maj Cain Robert Henry
Date: 19-25 September 1944
Place: Arnhem
Unit: 5th Fusiliers (att 2nd Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment)

Royal Warwickshire Regiment

Name:

Pte Vickers Arthur
Date: 25 September 1915
Place: Hulloch, France
Unit: 2nd (Regular) Battalion

Name:

Lt Col Henderson Edward
Date: 25 January 1917
Place: Elers Delaval Kut, Mesopotamia
Unit: 9th (Service) Battalion

Name:

Capt Phillips Robert Edwin
Date: 25 January 1917
Place: Kut, Mesopotami
Unit: 9th (Service) Battalion

Name:

Pte Hutt Arthur
Date: 4 October 1917
Place: Poelcapelle, Belgium
Unit: 7th (Teritorial) Battalion

Name:

Capt Gribble Julian Royds
Date: 23 March 1918
Place: Beaumetz, France
Unit: 10th (Service) Battalion

Name:

LCpl Amey William
Date: 4 November 1918
Place: Faubourg Soyer, France
Unit: 1/8th Territorial Battalion

Royal Fusiliers

Name:

Pte Norman William
Date: 19 December 1854
Place: Crimea
Unit: 7th Regiment

Name:

Pte Hughes Mathew
Date: 17 June 1855
Place: Crimea
Unit: 7th Regiment

Name:

Capt Jones Henry Mitchell
Date: 7 June 1855
Place: Crimea
Unit: 7th Regiment

Name:

Lt Hope William
Date: 18 June 1855
Place: Crimea
Unit: 7th Regiment

Name:

Assistant Surgeon Hale Thomas Egerton
Date: 8th September 1855
Place: Crimea
Unit: 7th Regiment

Name:

Pte Ashford Thomas Eldson
Date: 16 August 1880
Place: Kandahar
Unit: The Royal Fusiliers

Name:

Capt Fitzclarence Charles
Date: 14 October 1899 and 27 October 1899
Place: Mafeking
Unit: The Royal Fusiliers

Name:

Lt Dease Maurice James
Date: 23 August 1914
Place: Mons
Unit: 4th Battalion

Name:

Pte Godley Sidney Frank
Date: 23 August 1914
Place: Mons
Unit: 4th Battalion

Name:

Lt Dartnell Wilbur Taylor
Date: 3 September 1915
Place: East Africa
Unit: 25th Battalion

Name:

Capt The Rev Mellish Edward Noel
Date: 27-29 March 1916
Place: St Eloi, Ypres
Unit: Attached to Royal Fusiliers

Name:

Sgt Palmer Fredrick William
Date: 16-17 February 1917
Place: Eat Miraumont
Unit: 22nd Battalion

Name:

Cpl Jarratt George
Date: 3 May 1917
Place: Roeux
Unit: 8th Battalion

Name:

Sgt Molyneux John
Date: October 1917
Place: Ypres
Unit: 2nd Battalion

Name:

Lt Col Elliott-Cooper Neville-Bowes
Date: 30 November 1917
Place: Cambrai
Unit: 8th Battalion

Name:

Capt Gee Robert
Date: 30 November 1917
Place: Cambrai
Unit: 8th Battalion

Name:

Capt Stone Walter Napleton
Date: 30 November 1917
Place: Cambrai
Unit: 3rd Battalion attached 17th Battalion

Name:

LCpl Robertson Charles Graham
Date: 8 March 1918
Place: Menin Road
Unit: 10th Battalion

Name:

Cpl Sullivan Arthur Percy
Date: 10 August 1919
Place: North Russia
Unit: 45th Battalion

Name:

Sgt Pearse Samuel George
Date: 29 August 1919
Place: North Russia
Unit: 45 Battalion

Lancashire Fusiliers

Name:

Capt Bromley Cuthbert
Date: 25 April 1915
Place: Gallipoli
Unit: 1st Battalion

Name:

Capt Willis Richard Raymond
Date: 25 April 1915
Place: Gallipoli
Unit: 1st Battalion

Name:

Sgt Richards Alfred Joseph
Date: 25 April 1915
Place: Gallipoli
Unit: 1st Battalion

Name:

Sgt Stubbs Franf Edwards
Date: 25 April 1915
Place: Gallipoli
Unit: 1st Battalion

Name:

Cpl Grimshaw John Elisha
Date: 25 April 1915
Place: Gallilpoli
Unit: 1st Battalion

Name:

Pte Keneally William
Date: 25 April 1915
Place: Gallipoli
Unit: 1st Battalion

Name:

Pte Lynn John
Date: 2 May 1915
Place: Ypres
Unit: 2nd Battalion

Name:

Pte Hutchinson James
Date: 26 June 1916
Place: Somme
Unit: 2/5th Battalion

Name:

Lt Col Best-Dunkley Maurice James
Date: 31 July 1917
Place: Ypres
Unit: 2/5th Battalion

Name:

Sgt Lister Joseph
Date: 9 October 1917
Place: Ypes
Unit: 1st Battalion

Name:

2Lt Cassidy Bernard Matthew
Date: 28 March 1918
Place: Givenchy
Unit: 2nd Battalion

Name:

2Lt Schofield John
Date: 9 April 1918
Place: Givenchy
Unit: 2/5th Battalion

Name:

LCpl Halliwell Joel
Date: 27 May 1918
Place: Muscourt
Unit: 11th Battalion

Name:

LSgt Smith Edward
Date: 21-23 August 1918
Place: Somme
Unit: 1/5th Battalion

Name:

Acting Sgt Colley Harold John
Date: 24 August 1918
Place: Somme
Unit: 10th Battalion

Name:

Pte Lester Frank
Date: 12 October 1918
Place: Somme
Unit: 10th Battalion

Name:

Sgt Clarke James
Date: 2-4 November
Place: Sambre-Oise Canal
Unit: 15th Battalion

Name:

Acting Lt Col Marshall John Neville
Date: 4 November 1918
Place: Sambre-Oise Canal
Unit: 16th Battalion

Name:

Fus Jefferson Francis Arthur
Date: 16 May 1944
Place: Cassino
Unit: 2nd Battalion