List of Victoria Cross recipients (A–F)

Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross is the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories....

(VC) is a military decoration

Military decoration

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awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of armed forces of some Commonwealth

Commonwealth of Nations

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countries and previous British Empire

British Empire

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territories. It takes precedence over all other orders, decorations and medals, and may be awarded to a person of any rank

Military rank

Military rank is a system of hierarchical relationships in armed forces or civil institutions organized along military lines. Usually, uniforms denote the bearer's rank by particular insignia affixed to the uniforms...

in any service and to civilians under military command. The award was officially constituted when Queen Victoria

Victoria of the United Kingdom

Victoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India....

issued a warrant

Warrant (law)

Most often, the term warrant refers to a specific type of authorization; a writ issued by a competent officer, usually a judge or magistrate, which permits an otherwise illegal act that would violate individual rights and affords the person executing the writ protection from damages if the act is...

under the Royal sign-manual

Royal sign-manual

The royal sign manual is the formal name given in the Commonwealth realms to the autograph signature of the sovereign, by the affixing of which the monarch expresses his or her pleasure either by order, commission, or warrant. A sign-manual warrant may be either an executive actfor example, an...

on 29 January 1856 that was gazetted

London Gazette

The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record of the British government, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published...

on 5 February 1856. The order was backdated to 1854 to recognise acts of valour during the Crimean War

Crimean War

The Crimean War was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining...

. The first awards ceremony was held on 26 June 1857, where Queen Victoria invested 62 of the 111 Crimean recipients in a ceremony in Hyde Park.

The first citations of the VC, particularly those in the initial gazette of 24 February 1857, varied in the details of each action; some specify date ranges while some specify a single date. The original Royal Warrant

Royal sign-manual

did not contain a specific clause regarding posthumous awards, although official policy was to not award the VC posthumously. Between 1897 and 1901, several notices were issued in the London Gazette
London Gazette
The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record of the British government, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published...

regarding soldiers who would have been awarded the VC had they survived. In a partial reversal of policy in 1902, six of the soldiers mentioned were granted the VC, but not "officially" awarded the medal. In 1907, the posthumous policy was completely reversed and medals were sent to the next of kin of the six soldiers. The Victoria Cross warrant was not officially amended to explicitly allow posthumous awards until 1920, but one quarter of all awards for the First World War were posthumous. Three people have been awarded the VC and Bar

Medal bar

A medal bar or medal clasp is a thin metal bar attached to the ribbon of a military decoration, civil decoration, or other medal. It is most commonly used to indicate the campaign or operation the recipient received the award for, and multiple bars on the same medal are used to indicate that the...

, which is a medal for two actions; Noel Chavasse

Noel Godfrey Chavasse

Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse VC & Bar, MC was a British medical doctor and British Army officer who is one of only three people to be awarded a Victoria Cross twice....

, Arthur Martin-Leake

Arthur Martin-Leake

Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Martin-Leake, VC and Bar was an English double recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces...

and Charles Upham

Charles Upham

Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham VC and Bar was a New Zealand soldier who earned the Victoria Cross twice during the Second World War: in Crete in May 1941, and at Ruweisat Ridge, Egypt, in July 1942...

. Chavasse received both medals for actions in the First World War, while Martin-Leake was awarded his first VC for actions in the Second Boer War

Second Boer War

The Second Boer War was fought from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 between the British Empire and the Afrikaans-speaking Dutch settlers of two independent Boer republics, the South African Republic and the Orange Free State...

, and his second for actions during the First World War. Charles Upham received both VCs for actions during the Second World War.

The Victoria Cross has been awarded 1,356 times to 1,353 individual recipients. The largest number of recipients for one campaign is the First World War, for which 628 medals were awarded to 627 recipients. The largest number awarded for actions on a single day was 24 on 16 November 1857, at the Second Relief of Lucknow

Siege of Lucknow

The Siege of Lucknow was the prolonged defense of the Residency within the city of Lucknow during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. After two successive relief attempts had reached the city, the defenders and civilians were evacuated from the Residency, which was abandoned.Lucknow was the capital of...

, during the Indian Mutiny. The largest number awarded for a single action was 18, for the assault on Sikandar Bagh

Sikandar Bagh

Sikandar Bagh , formerly known by the British as Sikunder/Sikandra/Secundra Bagh, is a villa and garden enclosed by a fortified wall, with loopholes, gateway and corner bastions, approx. 150 yards square, c. 4.5 acres, located in the city of Lucknow, Oudh, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was built by the...

, during the Second Relief of Lucknow. The largest number awarded to one unit during a single action was seven, to the 2nd/24th Foot, for the defence of Rorke's Drift

Rorke's Drift

The Battle of Rorke's Drift, also known as the Defence of Rorke's Drift, was a battle in the Anglo-Zulu War. The defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift, under the command of Lieutenant John Chard of the Royal Engineers, immediately followed the British Army's defeat at the Battle of...

(22–23 January 1879), during the Zulu War. Since 1991, Australia, Canada and New Zealand have created their own separate Victoria Crosses: the Victoria Cross for Australia

Victoria Cross for Australia

The Victoria Cross for Australia is the highest award in the Australian Honours System, superseding the Victoria Cross for issue to Australians...

, the Victoria Cross for Canada, and the Victoria Cross for New Zealand

Victoria Cross for New Zealand

The Victoria Cross for New Zealand is a military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" to members of the New Zealand Armed Forces. It may be awarded to a person of any rank in any service and civilians under military command, and is presented to the recipient by the...

. Only three of these separate medals have been awarded, all for actions in the War in Afghanistan

War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

The War in Afghanistan began on October 7, 2001, as the armed forces of the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the Afghan United Front launched Operation Enduring Freedom...

; Willie Apiata received the Victoria Cross for New Zealand on 26 July 2007; Mark Donaldson

Mark Donaldson

Mark Gregor Strang Donaldson VC is the first recipient of the Victoria Cross for Australia, awarded for gallantry, the highest award in the Australian honours system. He is the first Australian recipient of a Victoria Cross since Keith Payne in 1969...

received the Victoria Cross for Australia on 16 January 2009; and Ben Roberts-Smith

Ben Roberts-Smith

Benjamin "Ben" Roberts-Smith VC, MG is an Australian soldier and a recipient of the Victoria Cross for Australia, the highest award in the Australian honours system....

was awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia on 23 January 2011. As these are separate medals, they are not included in this list.

The youngest recipient of the VC was Andrew Fitzgibbon

Andrew Fitzgibbon

Andrew Fitzgibbon VC , incorrectly cited as Arthur Fitzgibbon in the London Gazette, was possibly the youngest recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:Fitzgibbon...

who was fifteen at the time of the action that earned him the VC. By comparison, the oldest recipient was William Raynor

William Raynor

William Raynor VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces...

at 61 at the time of his action in 1857. There have been several VCs awarded to close relatives. Four pairs of brothers and three fathers and sons have been awarded the VC. In his book Victoria Cross Heroes, Lord Ashcroft notes the story of the Gough family as possibly the "bravest family." Major Charles Gough

Charles John Stanley Gough

General Sir Charles John Stanley Gough VC, GCB was born in Chittagong, India was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:At age 16, Gough moved to India,...

was awarded the VC in 1857 for saving his brother, Lieutenant Hugh Gough

Hugh Henry Gough

General Sir Hugh Henry Gough VC, GCB was born in Calcutta, India and was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:He was 23 years old, and a lieutenant in the...

who then went on to win a VC himself in the same year, after he charged enemy guns. Charles' son, John Gough, then went on to win the family's third VC in 1903.

Recipients (A–F)

By default this list sorts alphabetically. Indian and Nepalese convention is for the family name first and the given name second; this is reflected in this list. The rank column sorts by the rank

Military rank

of the recipient at the time of the action. This column sorts by the comparative rank of the recipient within the British Armed Forces

British Armed Forces

The British Armed Forces are the armed forces of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.Also known as Her Majesty's Armed Forces and sometimes legally the Armed Forces of the Crown, the British Armed Forces encompasses three professional uniformed services, the Royal Navy, the...

command structure. Within the British Armed Forces the Navy is the Senior Service, followed by the Army and then the Royal Air Force (RAF).

Name	Rank	Unit	Campaign	Date of action
	NOR-7.1Acting Acting (rank) An Acting rank, is a military designation allowing an commissioned- or non-commissioned officer to assume a rank—usually higher and usually temporary—with the pay and allowances appropriate to that grade. As such, an officer may be ordered back to the previous grade... Flight Sergeant Flight Sergeant Flight sergeant is a senior non-commissioned rank in the British Royal Air Force and several other air forces which have adopted all or part of the RAF rank structure...	No. 218No. 218 Squadron RAF No. 218 Squadron RAF No. 218 Squadron RAF was a squadron of the Royal Air Force. It was also known as No 218 Squadron after the Governor of the Gold Coast and people of the Gold Coast officially adopted the squadron.-World War I:...	Second World War	1943-08-1212 August 1943*
Abdul Hafiz	NOR-9.9Jemadar Jemadar Jemadar was a rank used in the British Indian Army, where it was the lowest rank for a Viceroy's Commissioned Officer . Jemadars either commanded platoons or troops themselves or assisted their British commander...	0099th Jat Infantry	Second World War	1944-04-066 April 1944*
	NOR-2.2Private Private (rank) A Private is a soldier of the lowest military rank .In modern military parlance, 'Private' is shortened to 'Pte' in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries and to 'Pvt.' in the United States.Notably both Sir Fitzroy MacLean and Enoch Powell are examples of, rare, rapid career...	Grenadier Guards Grenadier Guards The Grenadier Guards is an infantry regiment of the British Army. It is the most senior regiment of the Guards Division and, as such, is the most senior regiment of infantry. It is not, however, the most senior regiment of the Army, this position being attributed to the Life Guards...	Crimean War Crimean War The Crimean War was a conflict fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The war was part of a long-running contest between the major European powers for influence over territories of the declining...	1855-09-022 September 1855
	OF-2.2Temp. Captain Captain (British Army and Royal Marines) Captain is a junior officer rank of the British Army and Royal Marines. It ranks above Lieutenant and below Major and has a NATO ranking code of OF-2. The rank is equivalent to a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and to a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force...	Royal Army Medical Corps Royal Army Medical Corps The Royal Army Medical Corps is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all British Army personnel and their families in war and in peace...	First World War	1917-07-3131 July 1917 to 1 August 1917
	NOR-2.2Private Private (rank) A Private is a soldier of the lowest military rank .In modern military parlance, 'Private' is shortened to 'Pte' in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries and to 'Pvt.' in the United States.Notably both Sir Fitzroy MacLean and Enoch Powell are examples of, rare, rapid career...	Border Regiment Border Regiment The Border Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 34th Regiment of Foot and the 55th Regiment of Foot....	First World War	1914-12-2121 December 1914
	NOR-0Reverend	Bengal Ecclesiatical Regiment	Second Afghan War	1879-12-1111 December 1879
	OF-4.2Brevet Brevet (military) In many of the world's military establishments, brevet referred to a warrant authorizing a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily, but usually without receiving the pay of that higher rank except when actually serving in that role. An officer so promoted may be referred to as being... Lieutenant Colonel	Corps of Guides Corps of Guides (British India) The Corps of Guides was a regiment of the British Indian Army which served in the North West Frontier and had a unique composition of being part infantry and part cavalry.-History:...	Tirah Campaign Tirah Campaign The Tirah Campaign, often referred to in contemporary British accounts as the Tirah Expedition, was an Indian frontier war in 1897–98. Tirah is a mountainous tract of country.-Rebellion:...	1897-08-1717 August 1897
	NOR-2.2Private Private (rank) A Private is a soldier of the lowest military rank .In modern military parlance, 'Private' is shortened to 'Pte' in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries and to 'Pvt.' in the United States.Notably both Sir Fitzroy MacLean and Enoch Powell are examples of, rare, rapid career...	04343rd Regiment of Foot 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot The 43rd Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army. It was raised as Thomas Fowke's Regiment of Foot in 1741 with its headquarters at Winchester. The regiment was numbered 54th Foot until 1748 when it became the 43rd Foot...	Indian Mutiny	1859-01-022 January 1859
	NOR-0Chaplain Military chaplain A military chaplain is a chaplain who ministers to soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines and other members of the military. In many countries, chaplains also minister to the family members of military personnel, to civilian noncombatants working for military organizations and to civilians within the...	Royal Army Chaplains' Department Royal Army Chaplains' Department The Royal Army Chaplains' Department is an all-officer corps that provides ordained clergy to minister to the British Army.As of 2007, there are about 280 serving regular chaplains in the British Army; these can belong to either one of several Christian churches, or to the Jewish faith, although...	First World War	1916-04-099 April 1916
	OF-1.2Temp. Second Lieutenant Second Lieutenant Second lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer military rank in many armed forces.- United Kingdom and Commonwealth :The rank second lieutenant was introduced throughout the British Army in 1871 to replace the rank of ensign , although it had long been used in the Royal Artillery, Royal...	Bedfordshire Regiment	First World War	1916-09-2727–28 September 1916
Agansing Rai Agansing Rai Agansing Rai VC, MM was a Nepalese recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...	NOR-4.2Naik Naik (military rank) Naik is the equivalent rank to Corporal in the Indian Army and Pakistan Army, and previously in the British Indian Army and the Camel Corps, ranking between Lance Naik and Havildar. In cavalry units the equivalent is Lance Daffadar. Like a British Corporal, a Naik wears two rank chevrons....	0055th Gurkha Rifles	Second World War	1944-06-2626 June 1944
	OF-2.3Lieutenant Lieutenant A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...	HM Coastal Motor Boat 4	North Russia Relief Force British Campaign in the Baltic 1918-19 The British Campaign in the Baltic 1918-19 was a part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. The intervention played a key role in enabling the establishment of the independent states of Estonia and Latvia but failed to secure the control of Petrograd by Russian White forces, one of...	1919-06-1717 June 1919
	OF-1.6Lieutenant Lieutenant A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...	0044th Bengal Native Infantry	Indian Mutiny	1858-03-011 March 1858
	OF-1.6Lieutenant Lieutenant A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...	01313th Bengal Native Infantry	Indian Mutiny

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|||Trooper

Trooper (rank)

Trooper from the French "troupier" is the equivalent rank to private in a regiment with a cavalry tradition in the British Army and many other Commonwealth armies, including those of Australia, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand. Today, most cavalry units operate in the armoured role, equipped...

||Imperial Light Horse||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||6 January 1900
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|||Major||Royal Field Artillery

Royal Field Artillery

The Royal Field Artillery of the British Army provided artillery support for the British Army. It came into being when the Royal Artillery was divided on 1 July 1899, it was reamalgamated back into the Royal Artillery in 1924....

||First World War||24 August 1914
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|||Private

Private (rank)

A Private is a soldier of the lowest military rank .In modern military parlance, 'Private' is shortened to 'Pte' in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries and to 'Pvt.' in the United States.Notably both Sir Fitzroy MacLean and Enoch Powell are examples of, rare, rapid career...

||90th Regiment of Foot||Crimean War

Crimean War

||18 June 1855
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|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||1st Battalion, CEF||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|11 October 1918*
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|Ali Haidar

Ali Haidar

Ali Haidar VC was an ethnic Pashtun recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...

||Sepoy

Sepoy

A sepoy was formerly the designation given to an Indian soldier in the service of a European power. In the modern Indian Army, Pakistan Army and Bangladesh Army it remains in use for the rank of private soldier.-Etymology and Historical usage:...

||13th Frontier Force Rifles

13th Frontier Force Rifles

The 13th Frontier Force Rifles was part of the British Indian Army, and after 1947, Pakistan Army. It was formed in 1922 by amalgamation of five existing regiments and consisted of five regular battalions.-History:...

||Second World War||9 April 1945
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|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

Captain is a junior officer rank of the British Army and Royal Marines. It ranks above Lieutenant and below Major and has a NATO ranking code of OF-2. The rank is equivalent to a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and to a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force...

||Royal Army Medical Corps

Royal Army Medical Corps

The Royal Army Medical Corps is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all British Army personnel and their families in war and in peace...

||First World War||3 September 1916,
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|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||24th Regiment of Foot||Zulu War||22–23 January 1879
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|||Acting

Acting (rank)

An Acting rank, is a military designation allowing an commissioned- or non-commissioned officer to assume a rank—usually higher and usually temporary—with the pay and allowances appropriate to that grade. As such, an officer may be ordered back to the previous grade...

Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||6th Gurkha Rifles||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|11 June 1944
23 June 1944}
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|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

Lance corporal is a military rank, used by many armed forces worldwide, and also by some police forces and other uniformed organizations. It is below the rank of corporal, and is typically the lowest non-commissioned officer, usually equivalent to the NATO Rank Grade OR-3.- Etymology :The presumed...

||Royal Warwickshire Regiment||First World War||4 November 1918
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|||Private

Private (rank)

||2nd Dragoon Guards

2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)

The 2nd Dragoon Guards was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1685 by King James II. It saw service for three centuries, before being amalgamated into the 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards in 1959....

||Indian Mutiny||8 October 1858
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|||Lieutenant Colonel||8th Division, AIF||Second World War||18–22 January 1942
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|||Private

Private (rank)

||East Yorkshire Regiment

East Yorkshire Regiment

The East Yorkshire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, first raised in 1685 as Sir William Clifton's Regiment of Foot. It saw service for three centuries, before being amalgamated with the West Yorkshire Regiment , becoming The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|6 April 1943*
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|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Major||Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)||Second World War||23 April 1943
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|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||Green Howards||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|12 March 1915*
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|||Acting Lieutenant Colonel||Highland Light Infantry

Highland Light Infantry

The Highland Light Infantry was a regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1959. In 1923 the regimental title was expanded to the Highland Light Infantry ...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|25 March 1918*
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|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||Wellington Infantry Regiment||First World War||31 July 1917
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|||Temp. Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Indian Medical Service

Indian Medical Service

The Indian Medical Service was one of the military medical services, which also had some civilian functions, in British India. It served during the two world wars, and was in existence until the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947...

||Waziristan Campaign

Waziristan campaign 1919–1920

The Waziristan campaign 1919–1920 was a military campaign conducted in Waziristan by British and Indian forces against the fiercely independent tribesmen that inhabited this region...

||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|22 October 1919*
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|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||Highland Light Infantry

Highland Light Infantry

The Highland Light Infantry was a regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1959. In 1923 the regimental title was expanded to the Highland Light Infantry ...

||First World War||12 June 1915
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|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

Second lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer military rank in many armed forces.- United Kingdom and Commonwealth :The rank second lieutenant was introduced throughout the British Army in 1871 to replace the rank of ensign , although it had long been used in the Royal Artillery, Royal...

||Durham Light Infantry

Durham Light Infantry

The Durham Light Infantry was an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1968. It was formed by the amalgamation of the 68th Regiment of Foot and the 106th Regiment of Foot along with the militia and rifle volunteers of County Durham...

||Second World War||15 May 1940
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|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||84th Regiment of Foot

84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot

The 84th Regiment of Foot was a regiment in the British Army. In 1881 it was amalgamated with the 65th Regiment of Foot to create the York and Lancaster Regiment, with the 84th becoming the 2nd Battalion....

||Indian Mutiny||28 September 1857,
16 November 1857
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|||Sapper

Sapper

A sapper, pioneer or combat engineer is a combatant soldier who performs a wide variety of combat engineering duties, typically including, but not limited to, bridge-building, laying or clearing minefields, demolitions, field defences, general construction and building, as well as road and airfield...

||Corps of Royal Engineers||First World War||4 November 1918
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|||Gunner

Gunner (rank)

Gunner is a rank equivalent to Private in the British Army Royal Artillery and the artillery corps of other Commonwealth armies. The next highest rank is usually Lance-Bombardier, although in the Royal Canadian Artillery it is Bombardier....

||Royal Regiment of Artillery||Crimean War

Crimean War

||7 June 1855
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|||Private

Private (rank)

||7th Regiment of Foot||Second Afghan War||16 August 1880
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|||Sergeant

Sergeant

Sergeant is a rank used in some form by most militaries, police forces, and other uniformed organizations around the world. Its origins are the Latin serviens, "one who serves", through the French term Sergent....

||Yorkshire Regiment

Yorkshire Regiment

The Yorkshire Regiment is one of the largest infantry regiments of the British Army. The regiment is currently the only line infantry or rifles unit to represent a single geographical county in the new infantry structure, serving as the county regiment of Yorkshire covering the historical areas...

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||18 February 1900
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|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Royal Naval Reserve

Royal Naval Reserve

The Royal Naval Reserve is the volunteer reserve force of the Royal Navy in the United Kingdom. The present Royal Naval Reserve was formed in 1958 by merging the original Royal Naval Reserve and the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve , a reserve of civilian volunteers founded in 1903...

||First World War||30 July 1918
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|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||16th Battalion, AIF

16th Battalion, Royal Western Australia Regiment

The 16th Battalion, Royal Western Australia Regiment is an Australian Army reserve infantry battalion located in Western Australia and one of the two battalions of the Royal Western Australia Regiment.-History:...

||First World War||4 July 1918
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|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Royal Engineers

Royal Engineers

The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers , and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army....

||Hunza-Naga Campaign

Hunza-Naga Campaign

The Hunza-Nagar Campaign was fought in 1891 by troops of the British Raj against the princely states of Hunza and Nagar in the Gilgit Agency . It is known in Pakistan as the "Anglo-Brusho War".-Cause:...

||2 December 1891
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|||Major||Royal Army Medical Corps

Royal Army Medical Corps

The Royal Army Medical Corps is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all British Army personnel and their families in war and in peace...

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||15 December 1899
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|||Major||Australian Army Training Team Vietnam

Australian Army Training Team Vietnam

The Australian Army Training Team Vietnam was a specialist unit of the Australian Army that operated during the Vietnam War. Raised in 1962, the unit was raised solely for service as part of Australia's contribution to the war in Vietnam, providing training and assistance to South Vietnamese forces...

||Vietnam War

Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...

||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|23 February 1967
7 March 1967
7 April 1967*
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|Badlu Singh

Badlu Singh

Badlu Singh VC was an Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....

||Ressaidar||14th Murray's Jat Lancers

14th Murray's Jat Lancers

The 14th Murray's Jat Lancers, was a cavalry regiment of the British Indian Army.The regiment was first raised for the East India Company by Captain Murray. Like all regiments of the Indian Army the 14th Murray’s Jat Lancers underwent many name changes in the various reorganisations. They are...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|23 September 1918*
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|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Bengal Police Battalion||Indian Mutiny||27 September 1858
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|||Temp. Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||No. 56 Squadron RFC||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|25 April 1917 to
6 May 1917}
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|||Private

Private (rank)

||60th Rifles

King's Royal Rifle Corps

The King's Royal Rifle Corps was a British Army infantry regiment, originally raised in colonial North America as the Royal Americans, and recruited from American colonists. Later ranked as the 60th Regiment of Foot, the regiment served for more than 200 years throughout the British Empire...

||Indian Mutiny||6 May 1858
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|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Royal Marine Light Infantry||First World War||22–23 April 1918
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|||Cornet

Cornet (military rank)

Cornet was originally the third and lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British cavalry troop, after captain and lieutenant. A cornet is a new and junior officer.- Traditional duties :The cornet carried the troop standard, also known as a "cornet"....

||7th Queen's Own Hussars

7th Queen's Own Hussars

The 7th Queen's Own Hussars was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first formed in 1690. It saw service for three centuries, before being amalgamated into The Queen's Own Hussars in 1958....

||Indian Mutiny||19 March 1858
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|||Private

Private (rank)

||Grenadier Guards

Grenadier Guards

The Grenadier Guards is an infantry regiment of the British Army. It is the most senior regiment of the Guards Division and, as such, is the most senior regiment of infantry. It is not, however, the most senior regiment of the Army, this position being attributed to the Life Guards...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|12 March 1915*
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Major||No. 1 Squadron RFC||First World War||27 October 1918
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||South Staffordshire Regiment

South Staffordshire Regiment

The South Staffordshire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 38th Regiment of Foot and the 80th Regiment of Foot. In 1959 the regiment was amlagamated with the North Staffordshire Regiment to form the Staffordshire Regiment...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|27 July 1917*
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Leicestershire Regiment||First World War||24 September 1918
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||3rd Battalion, CEF

3rd Battalion, CEF

The 3rd Canadian Infantry Battalion was a battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force that saw service in the First World War.It was created on 2 September 1914 with recruits from Toronto....

||First World War||6 November 1917
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Royal Irish Regiment||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||7 January 1901
|-
|||Company Sergeant Major

Company Sergeant Major

A company sergeant major is the senior non-commissioned soldier of a company in the armies of many Commonwealth countries, responsible for standards and discipline. In combat, his prime responsibility is the supply of ammunition to the company...

||Royal Welsh Fusiliers||First World War||16 May 1915
|-
|||Pilot Officer

Pilot Officer

Pilot officer is the lowest commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many other Commonwealth countries. It ranks immediately below flying officer...

||No. 578 Squadron RAF

No. 578 Squadron RAF

No. 578 Squadron RAF was a heavy bomber squadron of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.-History:578 Squadron was formed at RAF Snaith, East Riding of Yorkshire on 14 January 1944 from 'C' flight of No. 51 Squadron RAF, equipped with Halifax Mk.III bombers, as part of No. 4 Group RAF in...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|30 March 1944*
|-
|||Lance-Sergeant||South Staffordshire Regiment

South Staffordshire Regiment

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|20 September 1944*
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||New Zealand Divisional Signal Company||First World War||7 August 1915
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||Royal Norfolk Regiment

Royal Norfolk Regiment

The Royal Norfolk Regiment, originally formed as the Norfolk Regiment, was an infantry regiment of the British Army. The Norfolk Regiment was created on 1 July 1881 as the county regiment of Norfolk...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|6 August 1944}
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

|||Royal Munster Fusiliers

Royal Munster Fusiliers

The Royal Munster Fusiliers was a regular infantry regiment of the British Army. One of eight Irish regiments raised largely in Ireland, it had its home depot in Tralee. It was originally formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of two regiments of the former East India Company. It served in India and...

||First World War||25 June 1916
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||King's (Liverpool Regiment)||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|18 April 1916*
|-
|||Trooper

Trooper (rank)

||Bulawayo Field Force||Matabeleland Rebellion||22 April 1896
|-
|||Squadron Leader

Squadron Leader

Squadron Leader is a commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many countries which have historical British influence. It is also sometimes used as the English translation of an equivalent rank in countries which have a non-English air force-specific rank structure. In these...

||No. 635 Squadron RAF

No. 635 Squadron RAF

No. 635 Squadron RAF was a heavy bomber squadron of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.-History:635 squadron was formed at RAF Downham Market in Norfolk on 20 March 1944 from two flights drawn from No. 35 Squadron and No. 97 Squadron, equipped with Lancaster Mk.I bombers, as part of...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|4 August 1944*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||55th Regiment of Foot||Crimean War

Crimean War

||5 November 1854
|-
|||Commander

Commander

Commander is a naval rank which is also sometimes used as a military title depending on the individual customs of a given military service. Commander is also used as a rank or title in some organizations outside of the armed forces, particularly in police and law enforcement.-Commander as a naval...

||Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve||First World War||21 August 1918 to
8 September 1918
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Green Howards||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|21–22 March 1918*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||8th Battalion, AIF||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|9 August 1918*
|-
|||Lieutenant Commander

Lieutenant Commander

Lieutenant Commander is a commissioned officer rank in many navies. The rank is superior to a lieutenant and subordinate to a commander...

||HMS Campbeltown

HMS Campbeltown (I42)

HMS Campbeltown was a "Town"-class destroyer of the Royal Navy during the Second World War. She was originally an American destroyer , and, like many other obsolescent U.S. Navy destroyers, she was transferred to the Royal Navy in 1940 as part of the Destroyers for Bases Agreement. Campbeltown...

||Second World War||27 March 1942
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||No. 84 Squadron RFC||First World War||8 August 1918 to
8 October 1918
|-
|||Rifleman||King's Royal Rifle Corps

King's Royal Rifle Corps

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|21 November 1941*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Sherwood Foresters

Sherwood Foresters

The Sherwood Foresters was formed during the Childers Reforms in 1881 from the amalgamation of the 45th Regiment of Foot and the 95th Regiment of Foot...

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||30 September 1901
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Prince Consort's Own (Rifle Brigade)||First World War||8 May 1918
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||Derbyshire Regiment||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||22 April 1900
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment

Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment

"PWRR" redirects here. For the railroad with these reporting marks, see Portland and Western Railroad.The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment is the senior English line infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Queen's Division...

||Operation Telic

Operation Telic

Operation TELIC was the codename under which all British military operations in Iraq were conducted between the start of the Invasion of Iraq on 19 March 2003 and the withdrawal of the last remaining British forces on 22 May 2011...

||1 May 2004,
11 June 2004
|-
|||Lance-Sergeant||London Regiment

London Regiment

The London Regiment is a Territorial Army regiment in the British Army. It was first formed in 1908 in order to regiment the various Volunteer Force battalions in the newly formed County of London, each battalion having a distinctive uniform. The Volunteer Force was merged with the Yeomanry in 1908...

||First World War||13 May 1915
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||24th Regiment of Foot||Andaman Islands Expedition

Andaman Islands Expedition

The Andaman Islands Expedition was a British expedition to the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, India. For actions during the expedition, five soldiers of the 24th Regiment of Foot were awarded Victoria Crosses...

||7 May 1867
|-
|||Temp. Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Green Howards||First World War||5 July 1916
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Royal Welch Fusiliers

Royal Welch Fusiliers

The Royal Welch Fusiliers was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince of Wales' Division. It was founded in 1689 to oppose James II and the imminent war with France...

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||20 September 1854
|-
|||Temp. Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers was a Irish infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 27th Regiment of Foot and the 108th Regiment of Foot...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|1 July 1916*
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||West Australian Mounted Infantry||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||16 May 1901
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Royal Engineers

Royal Engineers

The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers , and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army....

||First Ashanti Expedition||4 February 1874
|-
|||Squadron Commander||No. 3 Squadron RNAS

No. 203 Squadron RAF

No. 203 Squadron RAF was originally formed as No. 3 Squadron Royal Naval Air Service. It was renumbered No. 203 when the Royal Air Force was formed on 1 April 1918.-First World War:...

||First World War||19 November 1915
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||7th Battalion, CEF

7th Battalion, CEF

The 7th Canadian Infantry Battalion was a battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force that saw service in the First World War. It was created on 2 September 1914 with recruits from British Columbia. The battalion set off for England on board the Virginian berthed in Quebec. They arrived in...

||First World War||24 April 1915
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Worcestershire Regiment

Worcestershire Regiment

The Worcestershire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 29th Regiment of Foot and the 36th Regiment of Foot....

||First World War||5 November 1916
|-
|||Temp. Lieutenant Colonel||Leicestershire Regiment||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|1 October 1917*
|-
|||Drummer

Drummer

A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...

||East Lancashire Regiment

East Lancashire Regiment

The East Lancashire Regiment was, from 1881 to 1958, an infantry regiment of the British Army. The regiment was formed under the Childers Reforms by the amalgamation of two 30th and 59th Regiments of Foot with the militia and rifle volunteer units of eastern Lancashire...

||First World War||1 November 1914
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||9th Lancers||Zulu War||3 July 1879
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||33rd Regiment of Foot||Abyssinian War||13 April 1868
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||17th Lancers

17th Lancers

The 17th Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, notable for its participation in the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War...

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||25 October 1854
|-
|||Temp. Lieutenant Colonel||Lancashire Fusiliers

Lancashire Fusiliers

The Lancashire Fusiliers was a British infantry regiment that was amalgamated with other Fusilier regiments in 1968 to form the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.- Formation and early history:...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|31 July 1917*
|-
|Bhanbhagta Gurung

Bhanbhagta Gurung

Havildar Bhanbhagta Gurung VC was a Nepalese recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, awarded for his actions while serving as a Rifleman with the 3rd Battalion of...

||Rifleman||2nd Gurkha Rifles||Second World War||5 March 1945
|-
|Bhandari Ram

Bhandari Ram

Sepoy Bhandari Ram VC was an Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...

||Sepoy

Sepoy

||10th Baluch Regiment

10th Baluch Regiment

The 10th Baluch or Baluch Regiment was a regiment of the British Indian Army from 1922 to 1947. After the Partition of India, it was transferred to the Pakistan Army. In 1956, it was amalgamated with the 8th Punjab and Bahawalpur Regiments...

||Second World War||22 November 1944
|-
|||Commander

Commander

||HMS Nestor

HMS Nestor (1915)

HMS Nestor, launched on 9 October 1915, was an . She served in the 13th Destroyer Flotilla of the Grand Fleet and was sunk on 31 May 1916 at the Battle of Jutland...

||First World War||31 May 1916
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||6th Battalion, AIF||First World War||21 September 1917
|-
|||Trooper

Trooper (rank)

||Tasmanian Colonial Forces||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||1 September 1900
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||No. 60 Squadron RAF

No. 60 Squadron RAF

No. 60 Squadron of the Royal Air Force was formed in 1916 at Gosport. It is currently part of the Defence Helicopter Flying School based at RAF Shawbury in Shropshire....

||First World War||2 June 1917
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Princess Louises's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)||First World War||25 October 1918
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||10th Battalion, AIF||First World War||23 July 1916
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||2nd Bombay Light Cavalry||Indian Mutiny||12 August 1857,
23 October 1857
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||2nd Dragoon Guards

2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays)

||Indian Mutiny||28 September 1857
|-
|||Major||9th Gurkha Rifles||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|9 July 1944*
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||2nd South African Mounted Brigade||First World War||24 August 1916
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||78th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||29 July 1857
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||5th Gurkha Rifles||Hunza-Naga Campaign

Hunza-Naga Campaign

||2 December 1891
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||HMS Dunraven

HMS Dunraven

HMS Dunraven was a Q-Ship of the Royal Navy during World War I.On 8 August 1917, 130 miles southwest of Ushant in the Bay of Biscay, disguised as the collier Boverton and commanded by Gordon Campbell, VC, Dunraven spotted , commanded by Oberleutnant zur See Reinhold Saltzwedel. Saltzwedel believed...

||First World War||8 August 1917
|-
|||Colour Sergeant

Colour Sergeant

Colour sergeant or colour serjeant is a non-commissioned title in the Royal Marines and infantry regiments of the British Army, ranking above sergeant and below warrant officer class 2....

||18th Regiment of Foot

80th Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers)

The 80th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, created in 1793 and amalgamated into The South Staffordshire Regiment in 1881....

||Zulu War||12 March 1879
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||British South Africa Police

British South Africa Police

The British South Africa Police was the police force of the British South Africa Company of Cecil Rhodes which became the national police force of Southern Rhodesia and its successor after 1965, Rhodesia...

||First World War||12 February 1917
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||26th Battalion, AIF||First World War||17 July 1918
|-
|||Lieutenant Colonel||London Regiment

London Regiment

||First World War||7 November 1917
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Royal Scots Fusiliers

Royal Scots Fusiliers

-The Earl of Mar's Regiment of Foot :The regiment was raised in Scotland in 1678 by Stuart loyalist Charles Erskine, de jure 5th Earl of Mar for service against the rebel covenanting forces during the Second Whig Revolt . They were used to keep the peace and put down brigands, mercenaries, and...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|1 December 1917*
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||84th Regiment of Foot

84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot

||Indian Mutiny||12 July 1857 to
25 September 1857
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Northamptonshire Regiment

Northamptonshire Regiment

The Northamptonshire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1960. Its lineage is now continued by The Royal Anglian Regiment.-Formation:The regiment was formed as part of the reorganisation of the infantry by the Childers reforms...

||First World War||14 July 1916
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)||Crimean War

Crimean War

||20 November 1854
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve||First World War||9–10 May 1918
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Scots Guards

Scots Guards

The Scots Guards is a regiment of the Guards Division of the British Army, whose origins lie in the personal bodyguard of King Charles I of England and Scotland...

||First World War||3 August 1915
|-
|||Midshipman

Midshipman

A midshipman is an officer cadet, or a commissioned officer of the lowest rank, in the Royal Navy, United States Navy, and many Commonwealth navies. Commonwealth countries which use the rank include Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Kenya...

||HMS Eurayalus

HMS Euryalus (1853)

HMS Euryalus was a fourth-rate wooden-hulled screw frigate of the Royal Navy, with a 400HP steam engine that could make over 12 knots. She was launched at Chatham in 1853, was 212 feet long, displaced 3125 tons and had a complement of 515...

||Bombardment of Shimonoseki

Bombardment of Shimonoseki

The Battles for Shimonoseki refers to a series of military engagements in 1863 and 1864, fought to control Shimonoseki Straits by joint naval forces from the Great Britain, France, the Netherlands and the United States, against the Japanese feudal domain of Chōshū, which took place off and on the...

||6 September 1864
|-
|||Lieutenant Commander

Lieutenant Commander

Lieutenant Commander is a commissioned officer rank in many navies. The rank is superior to a lieutenant and subordinate to a commander...

||HMS E14

HMS E14

HMS E14 was a British E class submarine built by Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness. During the First World War, two of her captains were awarded the Victoria Cross, and a large number of her officers and crew were also decorated....

||First World War||27 April 1915
|-
|||Temp. Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Royal Horse Artillery

Royal Horse Artillery

The regiments of the Royal Horse Artillery , dating from 1793, are part of the Royal Regiment of Artillery of the British Army...

||First World War||1 September 1914
|-
|||Lieutenant Commander

Lieutenant Commander

Lieutenant Commander is a commissioned officer rank in many navies. The rank is superior to a lieutenant and subordinate to a commander...

||HMS Iris II

HMS Iris II

HMS Iris II was a River Mersey ferry which was commandeered by the Royal Navy to take part in the Zeebrugge Raid of St George's Day 24 April 1918. Iris II along with another Mersey ferry, Daffodil, was towed across the English Channel to Zeebrugge by HMS Vindictive.When the ship neared the...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|22–23 April 1918*
|-
|||Temp. Lieutenant Colonel||Durham Light Infantry

Durham Light Infantry

||First World War||1 October 1916
|-
|||Driver

Driver (rank)

Driver was a military rank used in the British Army and the armies of other Commonwealth countries. It was equivalent to the rank of Private....

||Royal Field Artillery

Royal Field Artillery

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||26 September 1901
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)||Crimean War

Crimean War

||22 April 1855
|-
|||Assistant surgeon||90th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||26 September 1857
|-
|||Bombardier

Bombardier (rank)

Bombardier is a rank used in artillery units in the armies of Commonwealth countries instead of corporal. Lance-bombardier is used instead of lance-corporal....

||Royal Regiment of Artillery||Indian Mutiny||3 April 1858
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||8th Battalion, CEF||First World War||9 August 1918
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||22nd Battalion, CEF||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|8–9 August 1918*
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Highland Light Infantry

Highland Light Infantry

The Highland Light Infantry was a regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1959. In 1923 the regimental title was expanded to the Highland Light Infantry ...

||First World War||11 November 1914
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||24th Regiment of Foot||Zulu War||22–23 January 1879
|-
|||Temp. Major||Lancashire Fusiliers

Lancashire Fusiliers

The Lancashire Fusiliers was a British infantry regiment that was amalgamated with other Fusilier regiments in 1968 to form the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.- Formation and early history:...

||First World War||25 April 1915
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Gordon Highlanders||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|29 October 1914*
|-
|||Company Sergeant Major

Company Sergeant Major

||Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry was an infantry regiment of the British Army.The regiment was formed as a consequence of Childers reforms, a continuation of the Cardwell reforms, by the amalgamation of the 43rd Regiment of Foot and the 52nd Regiment of Foot , forming the 1st...

||First World War||28 April 1917
|-
|||Lance-Sergeant||Coldstream Guards

Coldstream Guards

Her Majesty's Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, also known officially as the Coldstream Guards , is a regiment of the British Army, part of the Guards Division or Household Division....

||First World War||8 October 1915
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Otago Infantry Regiment||First World War||15 September 1916
|-
|||Major||14th Hussars

14th King's Hussars

The 14th King's Hussars was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1715. It saw service for two centuries, before being amalgamated into the 14th/20th Hussars in 1922....

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||13 October 1900
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||1st European Bengal Fusiliers

Royal Munster Fusiliers

||Indian Mutiny||16 November 1857
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||10th Battalion, CEF

10th Battalion, CEF

The 10th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force was a Canadian field force unit created during the First World War. Technically distinct from the Militia from which its soldiers were drawn the unit served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force , specifically in the 1st Canadian Division from 1914 to...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|16 August 1917*
|-
|||Trooper

Trooper (rank)

||Cape Mounted Riflemen

Cape Mounted Riflemen

The Cape Mounted Riflemen were South African military units. There were two separate successive regiments of that name. Some military historians distinguish between them by labelling the first as "imperial" and the second as "colonial"....

||Basuto War

Gun War

The Gun War also known as the Basuto War was an 1880-1881 conflict in the British territory of Basutoland in Southern Africa, fought between Cape Colony forces and rebellious Basotho chiefs over tribal rights...

||8 April 1879
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||20th Battalion, AIF||First World War||6 July 1918
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||24th Regiment of Foot||Zulu War||29 March 1879
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||46th Bengal Native Infantry||Indian Mutiny||31 August 1858
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||59th Scinde Rifles||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|19 December 1914*
|-
|||Temp. Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|9 December 1944*
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||Royal Northumberland Fusiliers

Royal Northumberland Fusiliers

The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers was an infantry regiment of the British Army. Originally raised in 1674, the regiment was amalgamated with three other fusilier regiments in 1968 to form the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.-Origins:...

||First World War||9 April 1917
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Princess Louises's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|21 March 1918*
|-
|||Temp. Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||South Wales Borderers||First World War||5 April 1916
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Royal Leicestershire Regiment

Royal Leicestershire Regiment

The Royal Leicestershire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, with a history going back to 1688. It saw service for three centuries, before being amalgamated into The Royal Anglian Regiment in 1964.-1688 - 1881:...

||First World War||10 March 1915
12 March 1915
|-
|||Temp. Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||54th Battalion, AIF

54th Battalion (Australia)

The 54th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. It was originally raised in 1916 for service during the World War I and took part in the fighting in the trenches of the Western Front in France and Belgium before being amalgamated with the 56th Battalion in late 1918 following...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|1–2 September 1918*
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||HMS Miranda

HMS Miranda (1851)

HMS Miranda was a 14-gun wooden screw sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in 1851 and sold for breaking in 1869. Two of her crew were awarded the Victoria Cross for their bravery during the Crimean War.-Design:...

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||29 May 1855
|-
|||Assistant Commissary

Commissary

A commissary is someone delegated by a superior to execute a duty or an office; in a formal, legal context, one who has received power from a legitimate superior authority to pass judgment in a certain cause or to take information concerning it.-Word history:...

||Commissariat Department||Indian Mutiny||11 May 1857
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||13th Battalion, AIF

13th Battalion (Australia)

The 13th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. Originally raised for the 1st Australian Imperial Force during the First World War, it was formed just six weeks after the start of the war. Along with the 14th, 15th and 16th Battalions which were recruited from New South Wales,...

||First World War||18 September 1918
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||Parachute Regiment||War in Afghanistan

War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

The War in Afghanistan began on October 7, 2001, as the armed forces of the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the Afghan United Front launched Operation Enduring Freedom...

||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|27 July 2006
20 August 2006}
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||31st Battalion, AIF||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|26–28 September 1917*
|-
|||Brevet

Brevet (military)

In many of the world's military establishments, brevet referred to a warrant authorizing a commissioned officer to hold a higher rank temporarily, but usually without receiving the pay of that higher rank except when actually serving in that role. An officer so promoted may be referred to as being...

Lieutenant Colonel||60th Rifles

King's Royal Rifle Corps

||Zulu War||28 March 1879
|-
|||Temp. Lieutenant Colonel||South Wales Borderers||First World War||18 September 1918
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||HMS Swallow||Crimean War

Crimean War

||29 May 1855
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Prince Consort's Own (Rifle Brigade)||First World War||20 September 1917
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||67th Regiment of Foot

67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot

The 67th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1758 and amalgamated into The Hampshire Regiment in 1881....

||Third China War||21 August 1860
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||Hertfordshire Regiment||First World War||27 September 1915
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||7th Battalion, AIF||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|9 August 1915*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment||Second World War||8 October 1944
|-
|||Lieutenant Colonel||Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment||First World War||23 March 1918
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||King's Royal Rifle Corps

King's Royal Rifle Corps

||First World War||17 November 1914
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||1st European Bengal Fusiliers

Royal Munster Fusiliers

||Indian Mutiny||9 March 1858
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)||First World War||6 August 1917
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Welsh Guards

Welsh Guards

The Welsh Guards is an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Guards Division.-Creation :The Welsh Guards came into existence on 26 February 1915 by Royal Warrant of His Majesty King George V in order to include Wales in the national component to the Foot Guards, "..though the order...

||First World War||31 July 1917
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||86th Regiment of Foot

Royal Ulster Rifles

The Royal Ulster Rifles was a British Army infantry regiment. It saw service in the Second Boer War, Great War, the Second World War and the Korean War, before being amalgamated into the Royal Irish Rangers in 1968.-History:...

||Indian Mutiny||3 April 1858
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||68th Regiment of Foot

Durham Light Infantry

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||5 November 1854
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||21st Lancers

21st Lancers

The 21st Lancers were a cavalry regiment of the British Army, created in 1858 and amalgamated to form the 17th/21st Lancers in 1922...

||Sudan Campaign

Mahdist War

The Mahdist War was a colonial war of the late 19th century. It was fought between the Mahdist Sudanese and the Egyptian and later British forces. It has also been called the Anglo-Sudan War or the Sudanese Mahdist Revolt. The British have called their part in the conflict the Sudan Campaign...

||2 September 1898
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||HMS Arrogant

HMS Arrogant (1848)

HMS Arrogant was a wood screw frigate of the Royal Navy, launched in 1848 and sold in 1867. During the period of 1848–1850 it was commanded by Robert FitzRoy. On 15 April 1854 the Arrogant was one of a number of Royal Navy ships that captured the Russian brig Patrioten. The Arrogant served...

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||9 August 1854
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||2nd European Bengal Fusiliers

Royal Munster Fusiliers

||Indian Mutiny||12 June 1857
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||56th Bengal Native Infantry||Indian Mutiny||15 April 1858
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||York and Lancaster Regiment

York and Lancaster Regiment

-History:It was formed in 1881 through the amalgamation of two other regiments:*65th Regiment*84th RegimentThe title of the regiment was derived not from the cities of York and Lancaster, or from the counties...

||First World War||16 November 1915
|-
|||Temp. Major||South Staffordshire Regiment

South Staffordshire Regiment

||Second World War||17–25 September 1944
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||South Staffordshire Regiment

South Staffordshire Regiment

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|13 March 1944}
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||46th Battalion, CEF

46th Battalion, CEF

46th Battalion, CEF is battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. The Saskatchewan Dragoons perpetuated the 46th Battalion, CEF....

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|1 November 1918*
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Royal Scots Fusiliers

Royal Scots Fusiliers

||First World War||31 October 1918
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)||First World War||12 September 1918
|-
|||Bombardier

Bombardier (rank)

Bombardier is a rank used in artillery units in the armies of Commonwealth countries instead of corporal. Lance-bombardier is used instead of lance-corporal....

||Royal Regiment of Artillery||Crimean War

Crimean War

||8 September 1855
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||72nd Regiment of Foot

72nd Regiment of Foot

The 72nd Highlanders was a British Army Highland Infantry Regiment of the Line raised in the late 18th Century in Scotland for service against the French...

||Indian Mutiny||30 March 1858
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||HMS X6||Second World War||22 September 1943
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||1st Battalion, CEF||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|15 June 1915*
|-
|||Commander

Commander

||HMS Farnborough

HMS Farnborough

HMS Farnborough, also known as , was a Q-ship of the British Royal Navy that saw service in the First World War. Farnborough was a heavily armed merchant ship with concealed weaponry that was designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks. Farnborough sank two submarines in her service in...

||First World War||17 February 1917
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Brigadier

Brigadier is a senior military rank, the meaning of which is somewhat different in different military services. The brigadier rank is generally superior to the rank of colonel, and subordinate to major general....

||Royal Horse Artillery

Royal Horse Artillery

The regiments of the Royal Horse Artillery , dating from 1793, are part of the Royal Regiment of Artillery of the British Army...

||Second World War||21–23 November 1941
|-
|||Temp. Lieutenant Colonel||Coldstream Guards

Coldstream Guards

Her Majesty's Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, also known officially as the Coldstream Guards , is a regiment of the British Army, part of the Guards Division or Household Division....

||First World War||15 September 1916
|-
|||Flying Officer

Flying Officer

Flying officer is a junior commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many countries which have historical British influence...

||No. 22 Squadron RAF

No. 22 Squadron RAF

No. 22 Squadron of the Royal Air Force operates the Sea King HAR.3 and HAR.3A at three stations in the southern United Kingdom. The squadron was originally formed in 1915 as an aerial reconnaissance unit of the Royal Flying Corps serving on the Western Front during First World War...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|6 April 1941*
|-
|||Temp. Lieutenant Colonel||Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)||Second World War||6 April 1943
|-
|||Ordinary Seaman||HMS Caledon

HMS Caledon

Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Caledon: was a 16-gun sloop, previously the French ship Henri. She was captured from the French in 1808 and sold in 1811. was a C class light cruiser launched in 1916. She was converted into an anti-aircraft ship in 1943 and was sold for...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|17 November 1917*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||13th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||6 April 1858
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment)||First World War||8 September 1917
|-
|||Lieutenant Colonel||Gloucestershire Regiment||Korean War

Korean War

The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...

||22–23 April 1951
|-
|||Captain

Captain (Royal Navy)

Captain is a senior officer rank of the Royal Navy. It ranks above Commander and below Commodore and has a NATO ranking code of OF-5. The rank is equivalent to a Colonel in the British Army or Royal Marines and to a Group Captain in the Royal Air Force. The rank of Group Captain is based on the...

||HMS Vindictive

HMS Vindictive (1897)

HMS Vindictive was a British protected cruiser of the Arrogant class built at Chatham Dockyard. She was launched on 9 December 1897 and completed in 1899....

||First World War||22–23 April 1918
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||33rd Battalion, AIF

33rd Battalion (Australia)

The 33rd Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. Raised for service during World War I as part of the 1st Australian Imperial Force, the battalion was formed in January 1916 as part of the 9th Brigade of the Australian 3rd Division during an expansion of the AIF...

||First World War||7–12 June 1917
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry was an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1959. Its lineage is continued today by The Rifles....

||Fourth Somaliland Expedition||19 December 1903
|-
|||Company Sergeant Major

Company Sergeant Major

||Royal Sussex Regiment

Royal Sussex Regiment

The Royal Sussex Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1966. The regiment was formed as part of the Childers reforms by the amalgamation of the 35th Regiment of Foot and the 107th Regiment of Foot...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|30 June 1916*
|-
|||Lieutenant Colonel||4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards

4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards

The 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1685. It saw service for three centuries, before being amalgamated into the 4th/7th Dragoon Guards in 1922....

||First World War||2–3 July 1916
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||33rd Battalion, AIF

33rd Battalion (Australia)

||First World War||31 October 1918
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Lancashire Fusiliers

Lancashire Fusiliers

The Lancashire Fusiliers was a British infantry regiment that was amalgamated with other Fusilier regiments in 1968 to form the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.- Formation and early history:...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|28 March 1918*
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||5th Machine Gun Corps||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|28–29 July 1916*
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Prince Consort's Own (Rifle Brigade)||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|8 March 1917*
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's)||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|1 July 1916*
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment||First World War||9 April 1917
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||East Yorkshire Regiment

East Yorkshire Regiment

||First World War||3–4 June 1916
|-
|||Troop Sergeant Major

Troop Sergeant Major

In the British Army, the Troop Sergeant Major is the senior NCO in a Royal Artillery troop, usually a Warrant Officer Class 2.This differs from a cavalry troop or infantry platoon, in which the highest-ranking NCO is usually a sergeant....

||8th King's Royal Irish Hussars

8th King's Royal Irish Hussars

The 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1693. It saw service for three centuries, before being amalgamated into The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars in 1958....

||Indian Mutiny||8 September 1858
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Bengal Staff Corps||Perak War

Perak War

The Perak War took place between British and local forces in Perak, a state in northwestern Malaysia. The sultan of Upper Perak and other local chiefs attempted to end foreign influence in the region and remove the British administrator James W.W. Birch...

||20 December 1875
|-
|||Ensign||67th Regiment of Foot

67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot

The 67th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1758 and amalgamated into The Hampshire Regiment in 1881....

||Third China War||21 August 1860
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||Monmouthshire Regiment||Second World War||2 April 1945
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Royal Engineers

Royal Engineers

The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers , and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army....

||Zulu War||22–23 January 1879
|-
|||Guardsman

Guardsman

Guardsman is a rank used instead of Private in some military units that serve as the official bodyguard of a sovereign or head of state. It is also used as a generic term for any member of a Guards unit of any rank....

||Irish Guards

Irish Guards

The Irish Guards , part of the Guards Division, is a Foot Guards regiment of the British Army.Along with the Royal Irish Regiment, it is one of the two Irish regiments remaining in the British Army. The Irish Guards recruit in Northern Ireland and the Irish neighbourhoods of major British cities...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|21 April 1945*
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||28th Native Infantry

128th Pioneers

The 128th Pioneers were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. The regiment traces their origins to 1846, when they were raised as the 28th Bombay Native Infantry....

||Second Afghan War||16 August 1880
|-
|Chatta Singh

Chatta Singh

Chatta Singh VC was an Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:He was approx...

||Sepoy

Sepoy

||9th Bhopal Infantry

9th Bhopal Infantry

The 9th Bhopal Infantry was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was raised in 1859, as the Bhopal Levy. It was designated as the 9th Bhopal Infantry in 1903 and became 4th Battalion 16th Punjab Regiment in 1922...

||First World War||13 January 1916
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Royal Army Medical Corps

Royal Army Medical Corps

The Royal Army Medical Corps is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all British Army personnel and their families in war and in peace...

||First World War||9 August 1916
31 July 1917 to
2 August 1917
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||26th Battalion, AIF||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|26 March 1917*
|-
|||Squadron Leader

Squadron Leader

||No. 35 Squadron RAF
No. 76 Squadron RAF

No. 76 Squadron RAF

No. 76 Squadron is a squadron of the Royal Air Force. It was formed during World War I as a home defence fighter squadron and in its second incarnation during World War II flew as a bomber squadron, first as an operational training unit and later as an active bomber squadron...

No. 617 Squadron RAF

No. 617 Squadron is a Royal Air Force aircraft squadron based at RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland. It currently operates the Tornado GR4 in the ground attack and reconnaissance role...

||Second World War||1940–1944
|-
|Chhelu Ram

Chhelu Ram

Chhelu Ram VC was an Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...

||Company Havildar Major||6th Rajputana Rifles

6th Rajputana Rifles

The 6th Rajputana Rifles were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. They were formed in 1922, after the Indian government reformed the army. They moved away from single battalion regiments to multi battalion regiments...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|19–20 April 1943*
|-
|||Civilian||Indian Naval Brigade

Naval Brigade

A Naval Brigade is a body of sailors serving in a ground combat role to augment land forces.-Royal Navy:Within the Royal Navy, a Naval Brigade is a large temporary detachment of Royal Marines and of seamen from the Royal Navy formed to undertake operations on shore, particularly during the mid- to...

||Indian Mutiny||27 September 1858
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||2/2nd Battalion, AIF||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|25 March 1945*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)||First World War||18 October 1915
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||London Regiment

London Regiment

||First World War||21–22 December 1917
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||Green Howards||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|9 October 1917*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||5th Royal Irish Lancers

5th Royal Irish Lancers

The 5th Royal Irish Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British army originally formed in 1689 as James Wynne's Regiment of Dragoons.They fought in the Battle of the Boyne and at the Battle of Aughrim under William of Orange...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|28–29 November 1917*
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Lancashire Fusiliers

Lancashire Fusiliers

The Lancashire Fusiliers was a British infantry regiment that was amalgamated with other Fusilier regiments in 1968 to form the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.- Formation and early history:...

||First World War||2 November 1918
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||2nd Battalion, CEF

2nd (Eastern Ontario Regiment) Battalion, CEF

The 2nd Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force was created in response to the First World War. The battalion comprised local militia in many regions of Ontario . Men came from as far away as Sault Ste. Marie to join in Canada’s military endeavor...

||First World War||9 September 1916
|-
|||Lieutenant Colonel||24th Battalion, CEF

Canadian Expeditionary Force

The Canadian Expeditionary Force was the designation of the field force created by Canada for service overseas in the First World War. Units of the C.E.F. were divided into field formation in France, where they were organized first into separate divisions and later joined together into a single...

||First World War||27–28 August 1918
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||Rimington's Guides

Rimington's Guides

Rimington's Guides were a unit of light horse in the British Army active in the Second Boer War. They were led by Major M. F. Rimington, later Colonel Rimington. He also led a column in the later stages of the war...

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||24 February 1901
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)||Crimean War

Crimean War

||5 November 1854
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||19th Madras Native Infantry||Indian Mutiny||15 January 1859
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Major||Corps of Royal Engineers||First World War||6 November 1918
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||King's African Rifles

King's African Rifles

The King's African Rifles was a multi-battalion British colonial regiment raised from the various British possessions in East Africa from 1902 until independence in the 1960s. It performed both military and internal security functions within the East African colonies as well as external service as...

||Second Somaliland Expedition||6 October 1902
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||86th Regiment of Foot

86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot

The 86th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1793 and amalgamated into The Royal Irish Rifles following the Childers Reforms in 1881....

||Indian Mutiny||1 April 1858
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Royal Canadian Dragoons||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||7 November 1900
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||34th Regiment of Foot

34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot

The 34th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1702 and amalgamated with the 55th Regiment of Foot, into The Border Regiment in 1881.-Early 18th century :...

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||29 March 1855
|-
|||Temp. Brigadier General

Brigadier General

Brigadier general is a senior rank in the armed forces. It is the lowest ranking general officer in some countries, usually sitting between the ranks of colonel and major general. When appointed to a field command, a brigadier general is typically in command of a brigade consisting of around 4,000...

||Corps of Royal Engineers||First World War||6 July 1917
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||24th Regiment of Foot||Zulu War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|22 January 1879*
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||97th Regiment of Foot

97th (The Earl of Ulster's) Regiment of Foot

The 97th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1824 and amalgamated into The Queen's Own in 1881....

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||30 August 1855
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Sergeant

||Lancashire Fusiliers

Lancashire Fusiliers

The Lancashire Fusiliers was a British infantry regiment that was amalgamated with other Fusilier regiments in 1968 to form the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers.- Formation and early history:...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|25 August 1918*
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|9 April 1918*
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Lieutenant Colonel||Bedfordshire Regiment||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|22–27 March 1918*
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||Royal Welsh Fusiliers||First World War||31 October 1917
|-
|||Gunner

Gunner (rank)

||Royal Horse Artillery

Royal Horse Artillery

The regiments of the Royal Horse Artillery , dating from 1793, are part of the Royal Regiment of Artillery of the British Army...

||Second Afghan War||27 July 1880
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment)||First World War||3–4 October 1918
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Machine Gun Corps

Machine Gun Corps

The Machine Gun Corps was a corps of the British Army, formed in October 1915 in response to the need for more effective use of machine guns on the Western Front in World War I. The Heavy Branch of the MGC was the first to use tanks in combat, and the branch was subsequently turned into the Tank...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|22 March 1918*
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Cheshire Regiment

Cheshire Regiment

The Cheshire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince of Wales' Division.The regiment was created in 1881 as part of the Childers reforms by the linking of the 22nd Regiment of Foot and the militia and rifle volunteers of Cheshire...

||First World War||20 September 1917
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Royal Engineers

Royal Engineers

The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers , and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army....

||Mohmand Campaign

Mohmand Campaign

The First Mohmand Campaign was a British military campaign against the Mohmands from 1897 to 1898.-Background:The Mohmands are a Pashtun tribe who inhabit the hilly country to the north-west of Peshawar, in the North-West Frontier Province...

||16 September 1897
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Northamptonshire Regiment

Northamptonshire Regiment

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|31 July 1917*
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||27th Battalion, CEF

27th (City of Winnipeg) Battalion, CEF

The 27th City of Winnipeg Battalion was the first independent battalion to be raised in Manitoba in the First World War. Officially it was not given a name and fell among the many nameless Canadian battalions raised to conform with the new numbering system introduced by Col...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|3 May 1917*
|-
|||Commander

Commander

||HMS Weser||Crimean War

Crimean War

||11 October 1855
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Rifle Brigade||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||15 December 1899
|-
|||Major||Prince Consort's Own (Rifle Brigade)||First World War||6–20 July 1916
|-
|||Gunner

Gunner (rank)

||Bengal Horse Artillery||Indian Mutiny||7 July 1857
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||3rd Regiment of Foot||Crimean War

Crimean War

||8 September 1855
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||49th Regiment of Foot

Royal Berkshire Regiment

The Royal Berkshire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 49th Regiment of Foot and the 66th Regiment of Foot.The regiment was originally formed as The Princess Charlotte of Wales's , taking the...

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||26 October 1854
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||5th Gurkha Rifles||Second Afghan War||2 December 1878
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||42nd Regiment of Foot

42nd Regiment of Foot

The 42nd Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army. Originally the 43rd Highlanders they were renumbered the 42nd in 1748.- Early history :...

||Indian Mutiny||15 January 1859
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||8th Battalion, AIF||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|24–25 July 1916*
|-
|||Lieutenant Commander

Lieutenant Commander

Lieutenant Commander is a commissioned officer rank in many navies. The rank is superior to a lieutenant and subordinate to a commander...

||HMS Comet

HMS Comet (1910)

HMS Comet was an Acorn class destroyer of the Royal Navy that saw active service in the First World War. She was built under the 1909–1910 programme by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company in Govan...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|28 September 1915*
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||King's Royal Rifle Corps

King's Royal Rifle Corps

||First World War||16 August 1917
|-
|||Boatswain

Boatswain

A boatswain , bo's'n, bos'n, or bosun is an unlicensed member of the deck department of a merchant ship. The boatswain supervises the other unlicensed members of the ship's deck department, and typically is not a watchstander, except on vessels with small crews...

||HMS Miranda

HMS Miranda (1851)

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||3 June 1855
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||24th Regiment of Foot||Andaman Islands Expedition

Andaman Islands Expedition

||7 May 1867
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||8th Battalion, CEF||First World War||9 August 1918
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||King's Royal Rifle Corps

King's Royal Rifle Corps

||Occupation of Egypt||5 August 1882
|-
|||First Class Boy

Boy Seaman

A boy seaman is a boy who serves as seaman and/or is trained for such service.-Royal Navy:In the British naval forces, where there was a need to recruit enough hands to man the vast fleet of the British Empire, extensive regulations existed concerning the selection and status of boys enlisted to...

||HMS Chester

HMS Chester (1915)

HMS Chester was a Town class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, and one of two ships forming the Birkenhead subtype. Along with her sister ship, HMS Birkenhead, she was originally ordered for the Greek Navy in 1914 and was to be named Lambros Katsonis...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|31 May 1916}
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Queen's Own Rifles of Canada||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|22–23 February 1945*
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||Royal Munster Fusiliers

Royal Munster Fusiliers

||First World War||26 April 1915
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||22nd Punjab Infantry

22nd Punjabis

The 22nd Punjabis was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was raised in 1857, as the 11th Regiment of Punjab Infantry. It was designated as the 22nd Punjabis in 1903 and became 3rd Battalion 14th Punjab Regiment in 1922...

||Siege of Malakand

Siege of Malakand

The Siege of Malakand was the 26 July – 2 August 1897 siege of the British garrison in the Malakand region of colonial British India's North West Frontier Province...

||26 July 1897
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||Buffs (East Kent Regiment)||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|6 March 1916}
|-
|||Colour Sergeant

Colour Sergeant

Colour sergeant or colour serjeant is a non-commissioned title in the Royal Marines and infantry regiments of the British Army, ranking above sergeant and below warrant officer class 2....

||75th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||8 June 1857
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||King's Own Scottish Borderers

King's Own Scottish Borderers

The King's Own Scottish Borderers was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Scottish Division.-History:It was raised on 18 March 1689 by the Earl of Leven to defend Edinburgh against the Jacobite forces of James II. It is said that 800 men were recruited within the space of two hours...

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|18 May 1901*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||King's (Liverpool Regiment)||First World War||16 April 1918
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)||First World War||8 August 1916
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Manchester Regiment||First World War||4 October 1917
|-
|||Lieutenant Commander

Lieutenant Commander

Lieutenant Commander is a commissioned officer rank in many navies. The rank is superior to a lieutenant and subordinate to a commander...

||Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|24–25 April 1916*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Bedfordshire Regiment||First World War||13 March 1917
|-
|||Colour Sergeant

Colour Sergeant

Colour sergeant or colour serjeant is a non-commissioned title in the Royal Marines and infantry regiments of the British Army, ranking above sergeant and below warrant officer class 2....

||Scots Fusiliers Guards

Scots Guards

The Scots Guards is a regiment of the Guards Division of the British Army, whose origins lie in the personal bodyguard of King Charles I of England and Scotland...

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||6 September 1855
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Royal Scots Fusiliers

Royal Scots Fusiliers

||First World War||5 June 1917
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||18th Royal Hussars

18th Royal Hussars

The 18th Royal Hussars was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, first formed in 1759. It saw service for two centuries, before being amalgamated into the 13th/18th Hussars in 1922....

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||4 July 1901
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Bombay Staff Corps||Second Afghan War||21 April 1879
|-
|||Surgeon Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Imperial Light Horse||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||18 December 1901
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Auckland Infantry Regiment||First World War||30 September 1918
|-
|||Surgeon

Surgeon

In medicine, a surgeon is a specialist in surgery. Surgery is a broad category of invasive medical treatment that involves the cutting of a body, whether human or animal, for a specific reason such as the removal of diseased tissue or to repair a tear or breakage...

||Bombay Medical Service||British rule in Burma

British rule in Burma

British rule in Burma lasted from 1824 to 1948, from the Anglo-Burmese Wars through the creation of Burma as a province of British India to the establishment of an independently administered colony, and finally independence...

||1 January 1889
|-
|||Skipper||Royal Naval Reserve

Royal Naval Reserve

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|15 August 1917*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||13th Battalion, CEF

13th Battalion, CEF

The 13th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force was an active service battalion during the First World War....

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|8 August 1918*
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||Machine Gun Corps

Machine Gun Corps

||First World War||25 March 1918
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Worcestershire Regiment

Worcestershire Regiment

The Worcestershire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 29th Regiment of Foot and the 36th Regiment of Foot....

||First World War||14 April 1918
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||78th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||12 August 1857
|-
|||Flying Officer

Flying Officer

Flying officer is a junior commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many countries which have historical British influence...

||No. 210 Squadron RAF

No. 210 Squadron RAF

No. 210 Squadron was a Royal Air Force unit established in World War I. Disbanded and reformed a number of times in the ensuing years, it operated as a fighter squadron during World War I and as a maritime patrol squadron during the Spanish Civil War, World War II and the Cold War before it was...

||Second World War||17–18 July 1944
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||London Scottish Regiment||First World War||1 May 1918
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||HMS Vindictive

HMS Vindictive (1897)

HMS Vindictive was a British protected cruiser of the Arrogant class built at Chatham Dockyard. She was launched on 9 December 1897 and completed in 1899....

||First World War||9 May 1918
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||13th Bengal Native Infantry||Indian Mutiny||30 June 1857
|-
|||Lieutenant-Colonel||Frontier Force Regiment

Frontier Force Regiment

For Pakistan's Border Guard see: Frontier CorpsThe Frontier Force Regiment is one of six Infantry regiments in the Pakistan Army. At present, the regiment consists of 67 battalions and has its regimental depot at Abbottabad in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. For that reason Abbottabad is also known as Home of...

||Second World War||3 January 1942
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)||Crimean War

Crimean War

||20 November 1854
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||East Yorkshire Regiment

East Yorkshire Regiment

||First World War||13 November 1916
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment

Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment

The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 100th Regiment of Foot and the 109th Regiment of Foot...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|12 April 1917}
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||53rd Battalion, AIF

53rd Battalion (Australia)

The 53rd Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. Raised in 1916 for service during World War I the battalion served on the Western Front until the end of the war, before being briefly amalgamated with the 55th Battalion and then eventually disbanded in 1919...

||First World War||1 September 1918
|-
|||Major||South Alberta Regiment

South Alberta Regiment

The South Alberta Regiment was a Canadian infantry regiment which served in the Second World War. The unit was created in 1924 and mobilized in 1940 as part of the 4th Canadian Infantry Division...

||Second World War||18–20 August 1944
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||East Surrey Regiment

East Surrey Regiment

The East Surrey Regiment was a regiment in the British Army formed in 1881 from the amalgamation of the 31st Regiment of Foot and the 70th Regiment of Foot...

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||23 February 1900
|-
|||Boatswain's Mate

Boatswain

||Naval Brigade

Naval Brigade

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||18 June 1855
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Royal Dublin Fusiliers||First World War||18 October 1918
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry was an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1959. Its lineage is continued today by The Rifles....

||Korean War

Korean War

||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|22–23 April 1951*
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Royal Australian Artillery||Second World War||19 June 1941 to
6 July 1941
|-
|||Assistant Commissary

Commissary

||Commissariat and Transport Department

Royal Army Service Corps

The Royal Army Service Corps was a corps of the British Army. It was responsible for land, coastal and lake transport; air despatch; supply of food, water, fuel, and general domestic stores such as clothing, furniture and stationery ; administration of...

||Zulu War||22–23 January 1879
|-
|||Driver

Driver (rank)

Driver was a military rank used in the British Army and the armies of other Commonwealth countries. It was equivalent to the rank of Private....

||15th Battalion, AIF

15th Battalion (Australia)

The 15th Battalion was raised from volunteers from Queensland and Tasmania in September 1914 during the First World War. It formed part of the 4th Brigade together with the 13th, 14th and 16th Battalions. The battalion served at Gallipoli and on the Western Front.-References:*...

||First World War||4 July 1918
|-
|||Trooper

Trooper (rank)

||Nourse's Horse||First Boer War

First Boer War

The First Boer War also known as the First Anglo-Boer War or the Transvaal War, was fought from 16 December 1880 until 23 March 1881-1877 annexation:...

||16 January 1881
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Worcestershire Regiment

Worcestershire Regiment

The Worcestershire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 29th Regiment of Foot and the 36th Regiment of Foot....

||First World War||9 October 1917
|-
|||Midshipman

Midshipman

||HMS Diamond||Crimean War

Crimean War

||18 October 1854
|-
|||Company Sergeant Major

Company Sergeant Major

||Prince Consort's Own (Rifle Brigade)||First World War||12 March 1915
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Frontier Light Horse

Frontier Light Horse

The Frontier Light Horse, a mounted unit, was raised at King William's Town, Eastern Cape Colony in 1877 by Lieutenant Frederick Carrington. It is often referred to as the Cape Frontier Light Horse.-Military service:...

||Zulu War||3 July 1879
|-
|||Temp. Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Royal Fusiliers||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|3 September 1915*
|-
|Darwan Negi||Naik

Naik (military rank)

Naik is the equivalent rank to Corporal in the Indian Army and Pakistan Army, and previously in the British Indian Army and the Camel Corps, ranking between Lance Naik and Havildar. In cavalry units the equivalent is Lance Daffadar. Like a British Corporal, a Naik wears two rank chevrons....

||39th Garhwal Rifles

39th Garhwal Rifles

The 39th Garhwal Rifles were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. They could trace their origins to 1887, when they were raised as the Aligarh Levy, but was disbanded after disgracing itself at the Rawalpindi Review in 1888....

||First World War||23–24 November 1914
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||11th Bengal Native Infantry||Indian Mutiny||2 October 1857
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||10th Battalion, AIF||First World War||28 June 1918
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||Royal Welsh Fusiliers||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|31 July 1917}
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)||First World War||24 March 1918
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||Royal Welsh Fusiliers||First World War||20 July 1916
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Royal Regiment of Artillery||Crimean War

Crimean War

||8 September 1855
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||42nd Regiment of Foot

42nd Regiment of Foot

The 42nd Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army. Originally the 43rd Highlanders they were renumbered the 42nd in 1748.- Early history :...

||Indian Mutiny||15 April 1858
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||Corps of Royal Engineers||First World War||13 October 1915
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||HMS Recruit||Crimean War

Crimean War

||17 September 1855
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||Suffolk Regiment

Suffolk Regiment

The Suffolk Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army with a history dating back to 1685. It saw service for three centuries, before being amalgamated with the Royal Norfolk Regiment as the 1st East Anglian Regiment in 1959...

||First World War||26 August 1917
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Sergeant

||York and Lancaster Regiment

York and Lancaster Regiment

||First World War||20 October 1918
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||21st Lancers

21st Lancers

The 21st Lancers were a cavalry regiment of the British Army, created in 1858 and amalgamated to form the 17th/21st Lancers in 1922...

||Sudan Campaign

Mahdist War

||2 September 1898
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||34th Prince Albert Victor's Own Poona Horse||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|24 November 1914*
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Royal Irish Rifles||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|21 March 1918*
|-
|||Temp. Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)||First World War||24–26 September 1918
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve||First World War||22–23 April 1918
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Royal Fusiliers||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|23 August 1914*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||10th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||12 August 1857,
14 March 1858
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||26th Brigade, AIF

26th Brigade (Australia)

The Australian 26th Brigade was an Australian Army infantry brigade of World War II. The 26th Brigade was raised in 1940 and formed part of the 9th Division throughout the war. The 26th Brigade saw action in North Africa, New Guinea and Tarakan Island...

||Second World War||24 November 1943
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Bengal Horse Artillery||Indian Mutiny||28 September 1857
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||92nd Regiment of Foot

92nd Regiment of Foot

92nd Regiment of Foot may refer to:* 92nd Regiment of Foot , a British Army regiment 1760–1763* 92nd Regiment of Foot , a British Army regiment 1779–1783* 92nd Regiment of Foot , a British Army regiment 1793–1795...

||Second Afghan War||13 December 1879
|-
|||Lieutenant-Colonel||Royal Regiment of Artillery||Crimean War

Crimean War

||17 October 1854
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Royal Engineers

Royal Engineers

The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers , and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army....

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||6 January 1900
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||King's Royal Rifle Corps

King's Royal Rifle Corps

||First World War||12 November 1914
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||42nd Battalion, CEF

Canadian Expeditionary Force

||First World War||12 August 1918
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||60th Rifles

King's Royal Rifle Corps

||Indian Mutiny||10 September 1857
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Royal Regiment of Artillery||Crimean War

Crimean War

||17 April 1855
|-
|||Commander

Commander

||HM Coastal Motor Boat 31||North Russia Relief Force

British Campaign in the Baltic 1918-19

The British Campaign in the Baltic 1918-19 was a part of the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. The intervention played a key role in enabling the establishment of the independent states of Estonia and Latvia but failed to secure the control of Petrograd by Russian White forces, one of...

||18 August 1919
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Coldstream Guards

Coldstream Guards

Her Majesty's Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, also known officially as the Coldstream Guards , is a regiment of the British Army, part of the Guards Division or Household Division....

||First World War||28 September 1914
|-
|||Fusilier

Fusilier

Fusilier was originally the name of a soldier armed with a light flintlock musket called the fusil. The word was first used around 1680, and has later developed into a regimental designation.-History:...

||Royal Scots Fusiliers

Royal Scots Fusiliers

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|18 January 1945*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||9th Queen's Royal Lancers

9th Queen's Royal Lancers

The 9th Queen's Royal Lancers, or the Delhi Spearmen, were a cavalry regiment of the British Army. They are best known for their roles in the Indian mutiny of 1857 and for their part in the North African campaign of World War II including the retreat to and the battle of El Alamein in 1942.-Early...

||Indian Mutiny||28 September 1857
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||1st King's Dragoon Guards

1st King's Dragoon Guards

The 1st King's Dragoon Guards was a cavalry regiment in the British Army. The regiment was formed in 1685 as The Queen's Regiment of Horse, named in honour of Queen Mary, consort of King James II. It was renamed The King's Own Regiment of Horse in 1714 in honour of George I...

||First Boer War

First Boer War

The First Boer War also known as the First Anglo-Boer War or the Transvaal War, was fought from 16 December 1880 until 23 March 1881-1877 annexation:...

||28 January 1881
|-
|||Battery Sergeant Major||Royal Horse Artillery

Royal Horse Artillery

The regiments of the Royal Horse Artillery , dating from 1793, are part of the Royal Regiment of Artillery of the British Army...

||First World War||1 September 1914
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Royal Field Artillery

Royal Field Artillery

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|10 April 1918*
|-
|||Lieutenant Colonel||Royal Welsh Fusiliers||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|26 April 1915*
|-
|||Assistant surgeon||24th Regiment of Foot||Andaman Islands Expedition

Andaman Islands Expedition

||7 May 1867
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Royal Army Medical Corps

Royal Army Medical Corps

The Royal Army Medical Corps is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all British Army personnel and their families in war and in peace...

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||11 December 1899
|-
|||Temp. Lieutenant Colonel||Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders was an infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1793. In 1961 it was merged with the Seaforth Highlanders to form the Queen's Own Highlanders...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|25–26 September 1915*
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Royal Marine Artillery||Crimean War

Crimean War

||13 July 1855
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||32nd Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||4 July 1857,
27 September 1857
|-
|||Ensign||57th Regiment of Foot||New Zealand Land Wars

New Zealand land wars

The New Zealand Wars, sometimes called the Land Wars and also once called the Māori Wars, were a series of armed conflicts that took place in New Zealand between 1845 and 1872...

||2 October 1863
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Royal Dublin Fusiliers||First World War||23 October 1916
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Imperial Yeomanry

Imperial Yeomanry

The Imperial Yeomanry was a British volunteer cavalry regiment that mainly saw action during the Second Boer War. Officially created on 24 December 1899, the regiment was based on members of standing Yeomanry regiments, but also contained a large contingent of mid-upper class English volunteers. In...

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||20 October 1900
|-
|||Company Sergeant Major

Company Sergeant Major

||Royal Munster Fusiliers

Royal Munster Fusiliers

||First World War||2 September 1918
|-
|||Driver

Driver (rank)

Driver was a military rank used in the British Army and the armies of other Commonwealth countries. It was equivalent to the rank of Private....

||Royal Field Artillery

Royal Field Artillery

||First World War||26 August 1914
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||Prince Consort's Own (Rifle Brigade)||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|23 November 1915*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Green Howards||First World War||12 May 1917
|-
|||Midshipman

Midshipman

||Royal Naval Reserve

Royal Naval Reserve

||First World War||25 April 1915
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve||First World War||9–10 May 1918
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers was a Irish infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 27th Regiment of Foot and the 108th Regiment of Foot...

||First World War||27 December 1917
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||1st Madras European Fusiliers||Indian Mutiny||6 September 1857
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||5th Lancers

5th Royal Irish Lancers

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||3 March 1901
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Bengal Engineers||Bhutan War||30 April 1865
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||93rd Regiment of Foot

93rd Regiment of Foot

The 93rd Regiment of Foot was a Line Infantry Regiment of the British Army . In 1881 during the Childers Reforms it was united with the 91st Regiment of Foot to form the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders .- The 93rd Regiment :The 93rd Regiment was raised three times before it became the...

||Indian Mutiny||16 November 1857
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||11th Hussars

11th Hussars

The 11th Hussars was a cavalry regiment of the British Army.-History:The regiment was founded in 1715 as Colonel Philip Honeywood's Regiment of Dragoons and was known by the name of its Colonel until 1751 when it became the 11th Regiment of Dragoons...

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||25 October 1854
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)||First World War||26 September 1915
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||7th Battalion, AIF||First World War||9 August 1915
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||1st Royal Dragoons||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|24–25 June 1917}
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Rifle Brigade||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||27 August 1900
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Corps of Royal Engineers||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|27 March 1942}
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||East Surrey Regiment

East Surrey Regiment

The East Surrey Regiment was a regiment in the British Army formed in 1881 from the amalgamation of the 31st Regiment of Foot and the 70th Regiment of Foot...

||First World War||20 April 1915
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Australian Machine Gun Corps||First World War||26 September 1917
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||53rd Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||2 October 1857
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Sergeant

||King's Shropshire Light Infantry||Second World War||16 October 1944
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||9th Division, AIF||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|13–14 April 1941}
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Seaforth Highlanders

Seaforth Highlanders

The Seaforth Highlanders was a historic regiment of the British Army associated with large areas of the northern Highlands of Scotland. The Seaforth Highlanders have varied in size from two battalions to seventeen battalions during the Great War...

||First World War||31 July 1917
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)||First World War||26 September 1916
|-
|||Pilot Officer

Pilot Officer

Pilot officer is the lowest commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many other Commonwealth countries. It ranks immediately below flying officer...

||No. 105 Squadron RAF

No. 105 Squadron RAF

No. 105 Squadron was a flying squadron of the Royal Air Force, active for three periods between 1917 and 1969. It was originally established during the First World War as a squadron of the Royal Flying Corps and disbanded after the war. Reactivated shortly before the Second World War, it was...

||Second World War||4 July 1941
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Black Watch

Black Watch

The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland is an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland. The unit's traditional colours were retired in 2011 in a ceremony led by Queen Elizabeth II....

||Sudan Campaign

Mahdist War

||13 March 1884
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)||First World War||16 August 1917
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Highland Light Infantry

Highland Light Infantry

The Highland Light Infantry was a regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1959. In 1923 the regimental title was expanded to the Highland Light Infantry ...

||Occupation of Egypt||13 September 1882
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||Sherwood Foresters

Sherwood Foresters

The Sherwood Foresters was formed during the Childers Reforms in 1881 from the amalgamation of the 45th Regiment of Foot and the 95th Regiment of Foot...

||First World War||20 September 1917
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)||First World War||15 October 1918
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||22nd Battalion, NZEF

22nd Battalion (New Zealand)

The 22nd Battalion, also known as the "Wellington Battalion", was an infantry battalion of the New Zealand Military Forces, which served during the Second World War. Formed in November 1939, it was part of the 5th Brigade, 2nd Division of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force. After undertaking...

||Second World War||15 July 1942
|-
|||Temp. Lieutenant Colonel||Royal Fusiliers||First World War||30 November 1917
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Corps of Royal Engineers||Crimean War

Crimean War

||18 June 1855
|-
|||Temp. Lieutenant Colonel||Manchester Regiment||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|21 March 1918*
|-
|||Brevet

Brevet (military)

Major||55th Regiment of Foot

55th Regiment of Foot

The 55th Regiment of Foot was a British Army infantry regiment which existed from 1755 to 1881. After 1782 it had a county designation added, becoming known as the 55th Regiment of Foot. or simply the Westmorland Regiment...

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||29 March 1855
|-
|||Temp. Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers was a Irish infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 27th Regiment of Foot and the 108th Regiment of Foot...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|6 December 1917*
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||10th Hussars||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||13 March 1900
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Scottish Horse

Scottish Horse

The Scottish Horse was a Yeomanry Regiment of the British Territorial Army from 1900 to 1956 when it was amalgamated with The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry....

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||3 July 1901
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)||First World War||22 June 1916
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||East Lancashire Regiment

East Lancashire Regiment

||Second World War||31 May 1940 to
1 June 1940
|-
|||Lieutenant Commander

Lieutenant Commander

Lieutenant Commander is a commissioned officer rank in many navies. The rank is superior to a lieutenant and subordinate to a commander...

||825 Naval Air Squadron

825 Naval Air Squadron

825 Naval Air Squadron was a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm carrier-based squadron formed on 8 October 1934 from the aircraft and personnel of 824 Naval Air Squadron...

||Second World War||12 February 1942
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||18th Regiment of Foot||Crimean War

Crimean War

||18 June 1855
|-
|||Lance-Sergeant||Lincolnshire Regiment||First World War||2 September 1918
|-
|||Company Sergeant Major

Company Sergeant Major

||Manchester Regiment||First World War||30 July 1916
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Lieutenant Colonel||Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)||First World War||4 October 1917
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||19th Regiment of Foot||Crimean War

Crimean War

||13 April 1855
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders was an infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1793. In 1961 it was merged with the Seaforth Highlanders to form the Queen's Own Highlanders...

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||13 December 1900
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||Royal Army Medical Corps

Royal Army Medical Corps

The Royal Army Medical Corps is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all British Army personnel and their families in war and in peace...

||First Boer War

First Boer War

The First Boer War also known as the First Anglo-Boer War or the Transvaal War, was fought from 16 December 1880 until 23 March 1881-1877 annexation:...

||27 February 1881
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||42nd Regiment of Foot

42nd Regiment of Foot

The 42nd Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army. Originally the 43rd Highlanders they were renumbered the 42nd in 1748.- Early history :...

||Indian Mutiny||9 March 1858
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||17th Lancers

17th Lancers

The 17th Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, notable for its participation in the Charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War...

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||25 October 1854
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||South African Infantry||First World War||18 July 1916
|-
|Fazal Din

Fazal Din

Naik Fazal Din VC was a Punjabi Muslim recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...

||Acting

Acting (rank)

Naik

Naik (military rank)

||10th Baluch Regiment

10th Baluch Regiment

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|2 March 1945*
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Captain

Captain (Royal Navy)

||HMS Jervis Bay

HMS Jervis Bay (F40)

HMS Jervis Bay was a British liner later converted into an Armed Merchant Cruiser, pennant F40. She was launched in 1922 and sunk on 5 November 1940 by the German pocket battleship ....

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|5 November 1940*
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||53rd Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||16 November 1857
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||16th Lancers||Tirah Campaign

Tirah Campaign

The Tirah Campaign, often referred to in contemporary British accounts as the Tirah Expedition, was an Indian frontier war in 1897–98. Tirah is a mountainous tract of country.-Rebellion:...

||17 August 1897
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Royal Marine Artillery||First World War||22–23 April 1918
|-
|||Piper

Bagpipes

Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones, using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes of many different types come from...

||Gordon Highlanders||Tirah Campaign

Tirah Campaign

The Tirah Campaign, often referred to in contemporary British accounts as the Tirah Expedition, was an Indian frontier war in 1897–98. Tirah is a mountainous tract of country.-Rebellion:...

||20 October 1897
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Major||Corps of Royal Engineers||First World War||4 November 1918
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)||First World War||9 May 1915
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||SS Julnar||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|24–25 April 1916*
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Duke of Wellington's Regiment

Duke of Wellington's Regiment

The Duke of Wellington's Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army, forming part of the King's Division.In 1702 Colonel George Hastings, 8th Earl of Huntingdon, was authorised to raise a new regiment, which he did in and around the city of Gloucester. As was the custom in those days...

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||24 February 1900
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||13th Battalion, CEF

13th Battalion, CEF

The 13th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force was an active service battalion during the First World War....

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|22–23 April 1915*
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Royal Fusiliers||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||14 October 1899
|-
|||Gunner

Gunner (rank)

||Bengal Horse Artillery||Indian Mutiny||28 September 1857
|-
|||Hospital Apprentice||67th Regiment of Foot

67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot

The 67th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1758 and amalgamated into The Hampshire Regiment in 1881....

||Third China War||21 August 1860
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Connaught Rangers||Basuto War

Gun War

||28 November 1879
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Connaught Rangers||Basuto War

Gun War

||28 November 1879
|-
|||Temp. Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||East Surrey Regiment

East Surrey Regiment

The East Surrey Regiment was a regiment in the British Army formed in 1881 from the amalgamation of the 31st Regiment of Foot and the 70th Regiment of Foot...

||First World War||29 September 1915
|-
|||Temp. Lieutenant Colonel||Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)

Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)

Lord Strathcona's Horse is a regular armoured regiment of the Canadian Forces. Currently based in Edmonton, Alberta, the regiment is part of Land Force Western Area's 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|31 March 1918*
|-
|||Drummer

Drummer

||64th Regiment of Foot

64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot

The 64th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army. The regiment was created as the 2nd Battalion, 11th Regiment of Foot in 1756, redesignated as the 64th Regiment of Foot in 1758, and took a county title as the 64th Regiment of Foot in 1782...

||Indian Mutiny||28 November 1857
|-
|||Temp. Lieutenant Colonel||7th Royal Tank Regiment

7th Royal Tank Regiment

The 7th Royal Tank Regiment was an armoured regiment of the British Army until 1959.-History:The 7th Royal Tank Regiment was part of the Royal Tank Regiment, itself part of the Royal Armoured Corps...

||Second World War||27 May 1942 to
15 June 1942
|-
|||Honorary Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Royal Canadian Army Chaplain Corps

Royal Canadian Army Chaplain Corps

The Royal Canadian Army Chaplain Corps was an administrative corps of the Canadian Army. The Canadian Army Chaplain Corps was authorized on 22 Mar 1948. The Canadian Army Chaplain Corps was redesignated The Royal Canadian Army Chaplain Corps on 3 Jun 1948. The Royal Canadian Army Chaplain Corps...

||Second World War||19 August 1942
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Lieutenant Colonel||Border Regiment

Border Regiment

The Border Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 34th Regiment of Foot and the 55th Regiment of Foot....

||First World War||11–12 April 1918
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Bengal Veterans Establishment||Indian Mutiny||11 May 1857
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Manchester Regiment||First World War||7–9 August 1915
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||New Zealand Engineers||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|24 August 1918*
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||4th Bengal European Regiment

4th Bengal European Regiment

The 4th Bengal European Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British East India Company, created in 1858 and disbanded in 1867.The regiment was raised in Bengal by the East India Company in 1858, for service in the Indian Mutiny; the "European" in the name indicated that it was manned primarily...

||Umbeyla Campaign

Umbeyla Campaign

The Umbeyla Campaign was one of numerous expeditions led by British forces in the North-West Frontier Province; this campaign was against local Hindustani Pashtuns and Bunerwals of British India. The local Pashtuns were vehemently opposed to British colonial rule and frequently attacked British...

||30 October 1863
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Bedfordshire Regiment||First World War||12 March 1915
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||East Surrey Regiment

East Surrey Regiment

The East Surrey Regiment was a regiment in the British Army formed in 1881 from the amalgamation of the 31st Regiment of Foot and the 70th Regiment of Foot...

||First World War||24 April 1917
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||26th Regiment of Foot||Zulu War||28 March 1879
|-
|||Major||7th Queen's Own Hussars

7th Queen's Own Hussars

The 7th Queen's Own Hussars was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first formed in 1690. It saw service for three centuries, before being amalgamated into The Queen's Own Hussars in 1958....

||Indian Mutiny||31 December 1858
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||HMS XE3||Second World War||31 July 1945
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||9th Queen's Royal Lancers

9th Queen's Royal Lancers

||Indian Mutiny||10 October 1857
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

Corporal is a rank in use in some form by most militaries and by some police forces or other uniformed organizations. It is usually equivalent to NATO Rank Code OR-4....

||2/9th Battalion, AIF

2/9th Battalion (Australia)

The 2/9th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army during World War II. Raised in Queensland as part of the Second Australian Imperial Force shortly after the outbreak of the war, it served as part of the 18th Brigade and over the course of the war it was attached to the 6th, 9th...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|4 September 1942*
|-
|||Temp. Lieutenant Colonel||Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment||First World War||13 November 1916
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||New Zealand Rifle Brigade

New Zealand Rifle Brigade

The New Zealand Rifle Brigade , affectionately known as The Dinks, was formed on 1 May 1915 as the 3rd Brigade of the New Zealand Division, part of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. During the first World War it fought in Egypt, against the Senussi, and then on the Western Front...

||First World War||7 June 1917
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Coldstream Guards

Coldstream Guards

Her Majesty's Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, also known officially as the Coldstream Guards , is a regiment of the British Army, part of the Guards Division or Household Division....

||First World War||27 September 1918
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||Grenadier Guards

Grenadier Guards

||First World War||12 March 1915
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||Welsh Regiment||First World War||14 September 1914
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

||Welsh Guards

Welsh Guards

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|17–24 May 1940*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||South Wales Borderers||First World War||9 April 1916
|}

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