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Recipients of the Victoria Cross and George Cross

Thirteen members of the Regiment have been awarded the Victoria Cross, and there has been one award of the George Cross.


The Victoria Cross

The Crimean War

Major Sir Charles Russell Bt

Sandbag Battery

5 Nov 1854

Private Anthony Palmer

Sandbag Battery

5 Nov 1854

Sergeant Alfred Ablett

Siege of Sevastopol

2 Sep 1855

Colonel The Hon Henry Percy

Battle for Inkerman

5 Nov 1857

   

The First World War

Private Edward Barber

Neuve Chapelle

12 Mar 1915

Lance Corporal Wilfred Fuller

Neuve Chapelle

12 Mar 1915

Lance Sergeant John Rhodes DCM

Cambrai (crossing the Broembeek)

8 Oct 1917

Captain George Paton MC

Gouzeacourt

1 Dec 1917

Captain Thomas Pryce MC

VieuxBerquin, La Couronne

13 Apr 1918

Lt Colonel Viscount Gort MVO DSO MC

Flesquieres

27 Sep 1918

Private William Holmes

Cattenieres

9 Oct 1918

   

The Second World War

Lance Corporal Harry Nicholls

River Escaut

21 May 1940

Major The Hon William Sidney

Carroceto, Anzio

7 Feb 1944

   

The George Cross

Captain Robert Nairac

Northern Ireland

15 May 1977



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