List of Victoria Cross recipients (G–M)

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

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

Victoria of the United Kingdom

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issued a warrant

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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

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, 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 (G–M)

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

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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
	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...	02828th Battalion, AIF	First World War	1918-08-088 August 1918*
Gaje Ghale Gaje Ghale Gaje Ghale 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.-Details:...	NOR-5.2Havildar Havildar Havildar ) was the Military 'In Charge' of a Fort during the times of Maratha Empire. In the British Indian Army it was equivalent rank to Sergeant, next above Naik, and is still used in the modern Indian Army and Pakistan Army. The cavalry equivalent is Daffadar...	0055th Gurkha Rifles	Second World War	1943-05-2424 May 1943
Ganju Lama Ganju Lama Ganju Lama VC MM was a Gurkha 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.-Enlistment:...	NOR-2.2Rifleman	0077th Gurkha Rifles	Second World War	1944-06-1212 June 1944
	NOR-5.2Sergeant 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....	05757th Regiment of Foot 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot The 57th Regiment of Foot was a regiment of line infantry in the British Army.-History:The regiment started out as the 59th Regiment of Foot raised in Gloucester in 1755....	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...	1855-03-2222 March 1855
	OF-2.2Captain 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...	0044th Royal Tank Regiment 4th Royal Tank Regiment The 4th Royal Tank Regiment was an armoured regiment of the British Army until 1993. It was part of the Royal Tank Regiment, itself part of the Royal Armoured Corps...	Second World War	1941-11-2323 November 1941
	NOR-7.2Colour 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....	04242nd 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	1858-05-055 May 1858
	NOR-4.2Corporal 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....	01515th The King's Hussars 15th The King's Hussars The 15th The King's Hussars was a cavalry regiment in the British Army. First raised in 1759, it saw service over two centuries, before being amalgamated into the 15th/19th Hussars in 1922.-Formation:...	First World War	1914-08-2323 August 1914
	OF-1.5Flying 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. 012No. 12 Squadron RAF No. 12 Squadron RAF No. 12 Squadron of the Royal Air Force currently operates the Tornado GR4 from RAF Lossiemouth.-History:No. 12 Squadron Royal Flying Corps was formed in February 1915 from a flight of No. 1 Squadron RFC at Netheravon. The squadron moved to France in September 1915 and operated a variety of aircraft...	Second World War	1940-05-1212 May 1940*
	NOR-7.2Colour 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....	06060th 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	1857-06-2323 June 1857
	OF-1.2Second 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...	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	1915-04-2020–21 April 1915
	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 Fusiliers	First World War	1917-11-3030 November 1917
Gian Singh Gian Singh Naik Gian Singh VC 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.-Biography:...	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....	01515th Punjab Regiment 15th Punjab Regiment The 15th Punjab Regiment was a regiment of the British Indian Army from 1922 to 1947. It was transferred to Pakistan Army on Partition of India in 1947, and amalgamated with the 1st, 14th and 16th Punjab Regiments in 1956 to form the Punjab Regiment....	Second World War	1945-03-022 March 1945
	OF-4.1Wing Commander Wing Commander (rank) Wing commander is a commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many other Commonwealth countries...	No. 617No. 617 Squadron RAF 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

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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...

||24th Regiment of Foot||First Ashanti Expedition||1873–1874
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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....

||King's Royal Rifle Corps

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...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|27 July 1916*
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|||Sergeant Major||Loodiana Regiment||Indian Mutiny||4 June 1857
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|||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 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 Boer War

Second Boer War

||31 March 1900
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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...

||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||6 March 1858
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|Gobar Negi||Rifleman||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||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|10 March 1915*
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|Gobind Singh||Lance Daffadar

Lance Daffadar

Lance Daffadar is the equivalent rank to Corporal in Pakistan, Indian and British Indian Army cavalry units, ranking between Acting Lance Daffadar and Daffadar. In other units the equivalent is Naik...

||28th Light Cavalry||First World War||30 November 1917 to
1 December 1917
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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...

||Royal Fusiliers||First World War||23 August 1914
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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....

||13th Battalion, CEF||First World War||8 August 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...

||Bombay Engineers

Indian Army Corps of Engineers

The Indian Army Corps of Engineers has a long and illustrious history dating back to the mid-18th century. The earliest existing subunit of the Corps dates back to 1777 while the Corps officially recognises its birth as 1780 when the senior most group of the Corps, the Madras Sappers were...

||Indian Mutiny||6 October 1859
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|||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...

Major||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....

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||28 October 1854
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|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||41st Battalion, AIF

41st Battalion, Royal New South Wales Regiment

The 41st Battalion, Royal New South Wales Regiment, , is an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. A Reserve unit, it is one of four battalions of the Royal New South Wales Regiment and is attached to the 8th Brigade, 2nd Division...

||First World War||26–27 August 1918
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Private (rank)

||2/31st Battalion, AIF

2/31st Battalion (Australia)

The 2/31st Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army that served during World War II. It was raised in June 1940 and was assigned to the 25th Brigade, 7th Division. It initially served in the United Kingdom where it undertook defensive duties before being moved to the Middle East...

||Second World War||10 July 1941
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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...

||Gordon Highlanders||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||11 July 1900
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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....

||West India Regiment

West India Regiment

The West India Regiment was an infantry unit of the British Army recruited from and normally stationed in the British colonies of the Caribbean between 1795 and 1927. The regiment differed from similar forces raised in other parts of the British Empire in that it formed an integral part of the...

||The Gambia

The Gambia

The Republic of The Gambia, commonly referred to as The Gambia, or Gambia , is a country in West Africa. Gambia is the smallest country on mainland Africa, surrounded by Senegal except for a short coastline on the Atlantic Ocean in the west....

||13 March 1892
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Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||32nd Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||21 August 1857
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|||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 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||1 October 1918
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|||Seaman

Seaman

Seaman is one of the lowest ranks in a Navy. In the Commonwealth it is the lowest rank in the Navy, followed by Able Seaman and Leading Seaman, and followed by the Petty Officer ranks....

||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...

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||5 November 1854
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|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Royal Field Artillery

Royal Field Artillery

||First World War||5 April 1917
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|||Major||5th Bengal European Cavalry

5th Bengal European Cavalry

The 5th Bengal European Cavalry was a cavalry regiment of the British East India Company, created in 1858 and disbanded in 1859.The regiment was originally raised in Bengal by the East India Company in 1858 as the 5th Bengal European Light Cavalry, for service in the Indian Mutiny; the "European"...

||Indian Mutiny||15 August 1857,
18 August 1857,
27 January 1858,
3 February 1858
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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 Bengal European Light Cavalry

19th Royal Hussars

The 19th Royal Hussars was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, created in 1857 and amalgamated to form the 15th/19th Hussars in 1922.-History:...

||Indian Mutiny||12 November 1857,
25 February 1858
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Brevet (military)

Major||Rifle Brigade||Third Somaliland Expedition||22 April 1903
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|||Petty Officer

Petty Officer

A petty officer is a non-commissioned officer in many navies and is given the NATO rank denotion OR-6. They are equal in rank to sergeant, British Army and Royal Air Force. A Petty Officer is superior in rank to Leading Rate and subordinate to Chief Petty Officer, in the case of the British Armed...

||HMS Thrasher

HMS Thrasher (N37)

HMS Thrasher was a T-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by Cammell Laird & Co Limited, Birkenhead, launched in November 1940, and had an active career in the Mediterranean and Pacific Far East.-Mediterranean:...

||Second World War||16 February 1942
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Sergeant

||Royal Field Artillery

Royal Field Artillery

||First World War||30 November 1917
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Private (rank)

||4th Regiment of Foot

King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster)

The King's Own Royal Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line of the British Army, which served under various titles from 1680 to 1959. Its lineage is continued today by the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment.-History:...

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||18 October 1854
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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...

||Corps of Royal Engineers||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...

||Princess Louises's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)||First World War||22 April 1917
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Private (rank)

||90th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||17 November 1857
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Lieutenant

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||Indian Staff Corps

Indian Staff Corps

The Indian Staff Corps was a branch of the Indian Army during the British Raj.Separate Staff Corps were formed in 1861 for the Bengal, Madras and Bombay Armies, which were later combined into the Indian Army. They were meant to provide officers for the native regiments and for the staff and army...

||Manipur Expedition||21 March 1891 to
9 April 1891
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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...

||8th Gurkha Rifles||Armed Mission to Tibet||6 July 1904
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|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Wellington Infantry Regiment||First World War||1 September 1918
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|||Private

Private (rank)

||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
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|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||5th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||24 September 1857
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Private (rank)

||2/48th Battalion, AIF

2/48th Battalion (Australia)

The 2/48th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army which served during the Second World War. Raised in Adelaide in South Australia in August 1940, the battalion formed part of the 26th Brigade and was initially assigned to the 7th Division, although it was later transferred to...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|25–26 October 1942*
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|||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...

||HMS Formidable||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|9 August 1945*
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|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||No. 12 Squadron RAF

No. 12 Squadron RAF

No. 12 Squadron of the Royal Air Force currently operates the Tornado GR4 from RAF Lossiemouth.-History:No. 12 Squadron Royal Flying Corps was formed in February 1915 from a flight of No. 1 Squadron RFC at Netheravon. The squadron moved to France in September 1915 and operated a variety of aircraft...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|12 May 1940*
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Lieutenant

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||Parachute Regiment||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|17–20 September 1944*
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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...

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||4 October 1917
|-
|||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||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|1 July 1916*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||75th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||11 September 1857
|-
|||Lieutenant Colonel||King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)||First World War||23–24 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...

||Royal Canadian Regiment||First World War||27 September 1918 to
1 October 1918
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Prince Consort's Own (Rifle Brigade)||First World War||6 May 1918
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||9th Lancers||First World War||24 August 1914
|-
|||Temp. Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Royal Warwickshire Regiment||First World War||23 March 1918
|-
|||Sergeant Major||Royal Scots Greys||Crimean War

Crimean War

||25 October 1854
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||37th Battalion, AIF

37th Battalion (Australia)

The 37th 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 and was disbanded in 1918...

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

Acting (rank)

Company Quartermaster Sergeant

Company quartermaster sergeant is a military rank or appointment.-Canada:A Company Quartermaster Sergeant in the Canadian Forces is the non-commissioned officer in a company who is in charge of supplies. The CQMS also serves as deputy to the Company Sergeant Major and is the second most senior NCO...

||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...

||First World War||16 August 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....

||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
|-
|||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 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;"|21 May 1940}
|-
|||Temp. Brigadier General

Brigadier (United Kingdom)

Brigadier is a senior rank in the British Army and the Royal Marines.Brigadier is the superior rank to Colonel, but subordinate to Major-General....

||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||27 May 1918
|-
|||Major||90th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||16 November 1857
|-
|||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...

||3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery

3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery

3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery is a regiment of the Royal Horse Artillery in the British Army. They are currently based in Caen Barracks, Hohne, Germany.-Current role:...

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

Private (rank)

||2/48th Battalion, AIF

2/48th Battalion (Australia)

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|22 July 1942*
|-
|||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...

||Naval Brigade

Naval Brigade

||Boxer Rising||13 July 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...

||23rd Regiment of Foot

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...

||Indian Mutiny||18 November 1857
|-
|||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||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|22–23 June 1916*
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Honourable Artillery Company

Honourable Artillery Company

The Honourable Artillery Company was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1537 by King Henry VIII. Today it is a Registered Charity whose purpose is to attend to the “better defence of the realm"...

||First World War||28–29 April 1917
|-
|||Assistant surgeon||7th Regiment of Foot||Crimean War

Crimean War

||8 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....

||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||1 September 1918
|-
|||Company Sergeant Major

Company Sergeant Major

||8th Battalion, CEF||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|23–24 April 1915*
|-
|||Able Seaman

Able Seaman (rank)

In the British Royal Navy in the middle of the 18th century, the term able seaman referred to a seaman with at least two years' experience at sea...

||HMS Shannon||Indian Mutiny||16 November 1857
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Royal Marine Light Infantry||Boxer Rising||24 June 1900
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||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||27 May 1918
|-
|||Temp. Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|25–30 September 1915*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)||First World War||12 October 1917
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

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||25–26 September 1917
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||3rd Battalion, AIF||First World War||9 August 1915
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||68th Regiment of Foot

68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry)

The 68th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1758 and amalgamated into The Durham Light Infantry in 1881. It saw action during the Seven Years War before being converted to Light Infantry in 1808. Fighting with distinction in the Peninsular Army under Arthur...

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||11 May 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...

||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:...

||Second Afghan War||2 April 1879
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||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:...

||Second Afghan War||14 December 1879
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||King's (Liverpool) Regiment||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||21 August 1900
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||9th Queen's Royal Lancers

9th Queen's Royal Lancers

||Indian Mutiny||19 June 1857
|-
|||Company Sergeant Major

Company Sergeant Major

||29th Battalion, CEF

29th Battalion, CEF

The 29th Battalion, CEF was an infantry battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force which actively served on the Western Front during the First World War from 1915 until the signing of the Armistice on 11 November 1918....

||First World War||21 August 1917
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||No. 83 Squadron RAF

No. 83 Squadron RAF

No. 83 Squadron RAF was a Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force squadron active from 1917 until 1969. It was operative during both World War I and World War II.-Establishment and early service:...

||Second World War||15 September 1940
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Lincolnshire Regiment||First World War||9 August 1915
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||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 World War||23 January 1945
|-
|||Farrier

Farrier

A farrier is a specialist in equine hoof care, including the trimming and balancing of horses' hooves and the placing of shoes on their hooves...

Sergeant Major||4th New Zealand Contingent

4th New Zealand Contingent

The 4th New Zealand Contingent was one of ten contingents of New Zealand volunteers for service during the Second Boer War. It served from April 1900 through to June 1901. The contingent went from New Zealand to Beira, Portuguese East Africa in the SS Gymeric, though there was a "mutiny" on the...

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||28 January 1901
|-
|||Gunner

Warrant Officer

A warrant officer is an officer in a military organization who is designated an officer by a warrant, as distinguished from a commissioned officer who is designated an officer by a commission, or from non-commissioned officer who is designated an officer by virtue of seniority.The rank was first...

||HMS Alexandra

HMS Alexandra (1875)

HMS Alexandra was a central battery ironclad of the Victorian Royal Navy, whose seagoing career was from 1877 to 1900. She spent much of her career as a flagship, and took part in operations to deter Russian aggression against Turkey in 1878 and the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882.-Background:At...

||Occupation of Egypt||11 July 1882
|-
|||Chaplain

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||7 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...

||Bengal Horse Artillery||Indian Mutiny||14–22 November 1857
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|8–9 April 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....

||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...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|29 September 1944*
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)||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 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||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|22–23 April 1918*
|-
|||Leading Seaman

Leading Seaman

Leading seaman is a junior non-commissioned rank or rate in navies, particularly those of the Commonwealth. When it is used by NATO nations, leading seaman has the rank code of OR-4. It is often equivalent to the army and air force rank of corporal and some navies use corporal rather than...

||Naval Brigade

Naval Brigade

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

Second Lieutenant

||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...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|3 May 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....

||Second Afghan War||31 January 1879
|-
|||Pensioned Sergeant

Sergeant

||9th Queen's Royal Lancers

9th Queen's Royal Lancers

||Indian Mutiny||8 June 1857,
10 October 1857
|-
|||Surgeon Major||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...

||5 June 1879
|-
|||Major||Royal Marine Light Infantry||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|31 May 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...

||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||27 March 1917
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||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||2 September 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||25 October 1918
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||York and Lancaster Regiment

York and Lancaster Regiment

||First World War||29 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...

||10th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||16 July 1857
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||No. 6 Squadron RFC||First World War||25 July 1915
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Rifle Brigade||Indian Mutiny||11 March 1858
|-
|||Bugle

Bugle

Bugle is a brass musical instrument.Bugle may also refer to:* Contrabass bugle, lowest-pitched instrument in the drum and bugle corps hornline* Bugle , common names of flowering plant genus Ajuga...

r||52nd Regiment of Foot

52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot

The 52nd Regiment of Foot was a light infantry regiment of the British Army throughout much of the 18th and 19th centuries. The regiment first saw active service during the American War of Independence, and were posted to India during the Anglo-Mysore Wars...

||Indian Mutiny||14 September 1857
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment)||First World War||21–22 March 1918
|-
|||Major||Auckland Militia||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...

||11 February 1864
|-
|||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...

||60th Rifles

King's Royal Rifle Corps

||Indian Mutiny||June to
September 1857
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||King's (Liverpool) Regiment||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||23 August 1900
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||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...

||First World War||6 May 1917
|-
|||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...

||Bedfordshire Regiment||First World War||24 October 1918
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Princess Louises's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|23 April 1917*
|-
|||Temp. Lieutenant Colonel||Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment)||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|25 January 1917*
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Manchester Regiment||Arab Revolt

Iraqi revolt against the British

The Iraqi Revolt against the British , or the Great Iraqi Revolution of 1920, started in Baghdad in the summer of 1920 with mass demonstrations of both Sunni and Shia, including protests by embittered officers from the old Ottoman army, against the policies of British Acting Civil Commissioner Sir...

||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|24 July 1920*
|-
|||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...

||Bulawayo Field Force||Matabeleland Rebellion||30 March 1896
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||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||17 June 1858
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Royal Regiment of Artillery||Crimean War

Crimean War

||5 November 1854
|-
|||Temp. Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Royal Army Service Corps

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...

||First World War||23–24 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...

||HMS Beagle

HMS Beagle (1854)

HMS Beagle was a wooden-hulled Arrow-class second-class screw gunvessel launched in 1854 and sold in 1863. She was the third vessel of the Royal Navy to use the name.-Design:...

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||26 October 1854
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)||First World War||26 April 1918
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Hampshire Regiment||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|31 July 1917*
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||2nd South African Light Infantry||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...

||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 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
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

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

Sergeant

||90th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||16 November 1857
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Bengal Horse Artillery||Indian Mutiny||9 July 1857
|-
|||Able Seaman

Able Seaman (rank)

In the British Royal Navy in the middle of the 18th century, the term able seaman referred to a seaman with at least two years' experience at sea...

||Naval Brigade

Naval Brigade

||Taiping Rebellion

Taiping Rebellion

The Taiping Rebellion was a widespread civil war in southern China from 1850 to 1864, led by heterodox Christian convert Hong Xiuquan, who, having received visions, maintained that he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ, against the ruling Manchu-led Qing Dynasty...

||9 October 1862
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||2nd Division, NZEF||Second World War||29 April 1941
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Green Howards||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|23 April 1917*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||24th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||22–23 January 1879
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||1st Battalion, CEF||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|18 August 1917*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||West India Regiment

West India Regiment

||The Gambia

The Gambia

||30 June 1866
|-
|||Temp. Major||Lincolnshire Regiment||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|16 February 1944*
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Manchester Regiment||First World War||29 October 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...

||HMS B11

HMS B11

HMS B11 was the last boat of the Royal Navy's B class of submarines. Launched in 1906 it is best known for carrying out a successful attack on the Turkish battleship Mesudiye in the Dardanelles. an action for which her captain received the Victoria cross...

||First World War||13 December 1914
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Royal Canadian Dragoons||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||7 November 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...

||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||3 September 1916
|-
|||Farrier

Farrier

A farrier is a specialist in equine hoof care, including the trimming and balancing of horses' hooves and the placing of shoes on their hooves...

||8th King's Royal Irish Hussars

8th King's Royal Irish Hussars

||Indian Mutiny||17 June 1858
|-
|||Company Sergeant Major

Company Sergeant Major

||Green Howards||Second World War||6 June 1944
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||78th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||26 September 1857
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)||First World War||26 August 1914
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||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||25 September 1857
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||2nd Battalion, CEF||First World War||26 October 1917
|-
|||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;"|9 October 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...

||90th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||26 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...

||Bengal Sappers and Miners||Indian Mutiny||14 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...

||78th Battalion, CEF||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|27 September to
2 October 1918}
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||24th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||22–23 January 1879
|-
|||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 Regiment of Foot||Crimean War

Crimean War

||18 June 1855
|-
|||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 ...

||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...

||22 September 1898
|-
|||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 Field Artillery

Royal Field Artillery

||First World War||15 September 1914
|-
|||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....

||No. 162 Squadron RCAF

No. 162 Squadron RCAF

Formed as a Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron at RCAF Station Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada on May 19, 1942 with Canso A aircraft, the squadron spent an uneventful eighteen months on East Coast anti-submarine duty...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|24 June 1944*
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||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||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|21 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...

||Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)

Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey)

The Queen's Royal Regiment was a regiment of the English and later British Army from 1661 to 1959. It was the senior English line infantry regiment of the British Army, behind only the Royal Scots in the British Army line infantry order of precedence...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|18–20 January 1944*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Royal Berkshire Regiment

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...

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||2 August 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....

||1st Battalion, AIF||First World War||6 May 1917
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||New South Wales Army Medical Corps||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||24 July 1900
|-
||| Lieutenant Colonel||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||15 June 1918
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)||First World War||31 August 1918
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||7th Regiment of Foot||Crimean War

Crimean War

||7 June 1855
18 June 1855
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Connaught Rangers||First World War||3 September 1916
|-
|||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...

||First World War||5 September 1915
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||2nd Division, NZEF||Second World War||20–28 May 1941
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

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

Crimean War

||22 April 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....

||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||16–17 September 1918
|-
|||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....

||43 Commando

43 Commando

No. 43 Commando or 43 Commando was a unit of Royal Marines trained as Commandos during the Second World War. They served in the 2nd Special Service Brigade in the Mediterranean, Italy and the Adriatic....

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

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps

Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps

The Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps was an administrative corps of the Canadian Army. The Militia Medical Service was established in 1899. The Militia Medical Service was redesignated the Canadian Army Medical Corps in 1904. The Canadian Army Medical Corps was redesignated The Royal Canadian...

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

Private (rank)

||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||28 June 1916
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Royal Warwickshire Regiment||First World War||4 October 1917
|-
|||Shoeing Smith

Farrier

A farrier is a specialist in equine hoof care, including the trimming and balancing of horses' hooves and the placing of shoes on their hooves...

||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 Boer War

Second Boer War

||20 December 1901
|-
|||Captain of the Mast

Petty Officer

||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

||13 July 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...

||24th Battalion, AIF||First World War||4 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...

||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

||24 February 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...

||Bengal Sappers and Miners||Indian Mutiny||23 February 1858
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||No. 11 Squadron RFC||First World War||7 November 1915
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||10th Battalion, AIF||First World War||19–22 September 1917
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

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

Ishar Singh

Captain Ishar Singh VC OBI 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...

||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:...

||28th Punjab Regiment||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...

||10 April 1921
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||14th Battalion, AIF

14th Battalion (Australia)

The 14th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. Originally raised in 1914 as part of the Australian Imperial Force for service in World War I, the battalion served at Gallipoli initially before being sent to France where it served in the trenches along the Western Front until...

||First World War||19–20 May 1915
|-
|||Temp. Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||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:...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|25 November 1941*
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||East Yorkshire Regiment

East Yorkshire Regiment

||First World War||22 March 1918
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||No. 106 Squadron RAF

No. 106 Squadron RAF

No. 106 Squadron RAF was a Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force squadron active from 1917 until 1919. It was also operative during World War II and in the post war period until 1963.- Establishment and early service :...

||Second World War||26 April 1944
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||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||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|27 September 1918*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||17th Battalion, AIF||First World War||25 June 1916
|-
|||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||28 June 1915
|-
|||Temp. Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Gloucestershire Regiment||First World War||21–23 March 1918
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Royal Norfolk Regiment

Royal Norfolk Regiment

||Second World War||7–8 August 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....

||Royal Fusiliers||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|3 May 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 Bengal Native Infantry||Indian Mutiny||14 October 1858
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||Corps of Royal Engineers||First World War||23 August 1914
|-
|||Surgeon

Surgeon

||78th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||25 September 1857
|-
|||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:...

||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:...

||Second World War||16 May 1944
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||34th Battalion, AIF

34th Battalion (Australia)

The 34th Battalion was a unit of 1st Australian Imperial Force, which was established in World War I. The battalion was formed in January 1916 as part of the 9th Brigade of the Australian 3rd Division. The bulk of the battalion’s recruits were drawn from the Maitland area and thus it was dubbed...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|12 October 1917*
|-
|||Rough Rider||Bengal Horse Artillery||Indian Mutiny||14–22 November 1857
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||50th Battalion, AIF

50th Battalion (Australia)

The 50th 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 51st Battalion in early 1919 following...

||First World War||2 April 1917
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||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
|-
|||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...

||No. 66 Squadron RFC||First World War||30 March 1918
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Lieutenant Colonel||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||4 November 1918
|-
|||Temp. Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Corps of Royal Engineers||First World War||25 September 1915
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Northumberland Fusiliers||First World War||14 October 1918
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||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||3 October 1918
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Imperial Light Horse||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||21 October 1899
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Corps of Royal Engineers||First World War||14 September 1914
|-
|||Stoker||HMS Arrogant

HMS Arrogant (1848)

||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...

||9th Queen's Royal Lancers

9th Queen's Royal Lancers

||Indian Mutiny||8 June 1857
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||King's (Liverpool Regiment)||First World War||3 September 1916
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||7th Regiment of Foot||Crimean War

Crimean War

||7 June 1855
|-
|||Colonel||Parachute Regiment||Falklands War

Falklands War

The Falklands War , also called the Falklands Conflict or Falklands Crisis, was fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the disputed Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands...

||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|28 May 1982*
|-
|||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...

||HMS Shark

HMS Shark (1912)

HMS Shark, was an Acasta-class destroyer built in 1912 and sunk during the Battle of Jutland on the evening of 31 May 1916.-Construction:She was built at the Wallsend yard of Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson and launched on 30 July 1912...

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

||Loyal North Lancashire Regiment||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|21 May 1916*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||24th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||22–23 January 1879
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||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||25 September 1916
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||24th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||22–23 January 1879
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||51st Sikhs||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|7 January 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...

||8th Battalio, AIF||First World War||23 August 1918
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||New Zealand and Australian Division

New Zealand and Australian Division

The New Zealand and Australian Division was formed at the start of the Battle of Gallipoli as a composite division under the command of New Zealand general Alexander Godley. At the start of World War I New Zealand had mustered insufficient infantry battalions to form their own division while...

||First World War||26 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....

||22nd Battalion, CEF

Royal 22e Régiment

The Royal 22nd Regiment is an infantry regiment and the most famous francophone organization of the Canadian Forces. The regiment comprises three Regular Force battalions, two Primary Reserve battalions, and a band, making it the largest regiment in the Canadian Army...

||First World War||8 June 1918
|-
|Kamal Ram

Kamal Ram

Sepoy Kamal 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

||8th Punjab Regiment

8th Punjab Regiment

The 8th Punjab Regiment was a regiment of the British Indian Army from 1922 to 1947. It was transferred to Pakistan Army on Partition of India in 1947 and merged with the Baluch Regiment in 1956.-Madras Infantry:...

||Second World War||12 May 1944
|-
|Karamjeet Judge

Karamjeet Singh Judge

Karamjeet Singh Judge 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:...

||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...

||15th Punjab Regiment

15th Punjab Regiment

The 15th Punjab Regiment was a regiment of the British Indian Army from 1922 to 1947. It was transferred to Pakistan Army on Partition of India in 1947, and amalgamated with the 1st, 14th and 16th Punjab Regiments in 1956 to form the Punjab Regiment....

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|18 March 1945*
|-
|Karanbahadur Rana

Karanbahadur Rana

Karanbahadur Rana 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.-Details:...

||Rifleman||3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles

3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles

The 3 Gorkha Rifles is an Indian Army infantry regiment. It was originally a Gurkha regiment of the British Indian Army formed in 1815. They were present at a number of actions and wars including the Siege of Delhi in 1857 to the First and Second World Wars...

||First World War||10 April 1918
|-
|||Civilian||Bengal Civil Service||Indian Mutiny||9 November 1857
|-
|||Major||Bombay Artillery||Indian Mutiny||17 March 1858
|-
|||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...

Third Class||HMS Wrangler||Crimean War

Crimean War

||31 August 1855
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||2/25th Battalion, AIF||Second World War||13 September 1943
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||9th Queen's Royal Lancers

9th Queen's Royal Lancers

||Indian Mutiny||28 September 1857
|-
|||Temp. Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)||First World War||4 October 1916
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||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
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||2/4th Battalion, AIF||Second World War||15 May 1945
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||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
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||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||28 April 1943
|-
|||Private

Private (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 ...

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||22 November 1900
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Loyal North Lancashire Regiment||First World War||25 September 1915
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

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

Private (rank)

||Durham Light Infantry

Durham Light Infantry

||First World War||4 November 1915
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||2nd Battalion, AIF||First World War||9 April 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...

||Gordon Highlanders||First World War||23 October 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...

||39th Garhwal Rifles

39th Garhwal Rifles

||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;"|2 January 1920*
|-
|||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||21 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...

||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||27 September 1918
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||4th Battalion, CEF

The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (4th Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry)

The Loyal Edmonton Regiment , or LER, is a Primary Reserve infantry unit of the Canadian Forces based in Edmonton, Alberta. The LER is part of Land Force Western Area's 41 Canadian Brigade Group...

||First World War||16 September 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...

||24th Bombay Native Infantry||Indian Mutiny||10 July 1857
|-
|||Temp. Lieutenant Colonel||No. 11 (Scottish) Commando

No. 11 (Scottish) Commando

No. 11 Commando was a battalion-sized commando unit of the British Army during the Second World War. Formed in Scotland members of No. 11 Commando adopted the Tam o'shanter as their official headress....

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|17–18 November 1941*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||1st Battalion, AIF||First World War||7 August 1915
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||London Regiment

London Regiment

||First World War||25–26 May 1915
|-
|Khudadad Khan

Khudadad Khan

Khudadad Khan, VC , was the first South Asian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest military award for gallantry in the face of the enemy given to British and Commonwealth forces...

||Sepoy

Sepoy

||129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis

129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis

The 129th Baluchis was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army raised in 1846 as the 2nd Bellochee Battalion. It was designated as the 129th Baluchis in 1903 and became 4th Battalion 10th Baluch Regiment in 1922...

||First World War||31 October 1914
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||2/48th Battalion, AIF

2/48th Battalion (Australia)

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|23–31 October 1942*
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||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;"|25 September 1915*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||2/14th Battalion, AIF

2/14th Battalion (Australia)

The 2/14th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army, which served during World War II. Part of the 21st Brigade, 7th Division, the battalion saw action against the Vichy French in Syria in 1941 before returning to Australia in early 1942. They subsequently fought against the...

||Second World War||29 August 1942
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||49th Battalion, CEF

The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (4th Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry)

The Loyal Edmonton Regiment , or LER, is a Primary Reserve infantry unit of the Canadian Forces based in Edmonton, Alberta. The LER is part of Land Force Western Area's 41 Canadian Brigade Group...

||First World War||30 October 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....

||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

||2 June 1900
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Manchester Regiment||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|4 November 1918*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||10th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||4 June 1857
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Post Office Rifles

Post Office Rifles

The Post Office Rifles was a unit of the British Army, first formed in 1868 from volunteers. The unit evolved several times until 1921, after which the name was lost during one of many reorganisations.-Beginnings:...

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

Acting (rank)

Sergeant

||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;"|2 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....

||King's (Liverpool) Regiment||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||21 August 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...

||No. 1 Commando

No. 1 Commando

The No. 1 Commando was a unit of British Commandos and part of the British Army during the Second World War. It was raised in 1940 from the ranks of the existing independent companies. Operationally they carried out a series of small scale cross channel raids and spearheaded the Operation Torch...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|31 January 1945*
|-
|||Temp. Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Corps of Royal Engineers||First World War||22 March 1918
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||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

||20 September 1854
|-
|||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....

||47th Battalion, CEF||First World War||22–24 August 1917
|-
|Kulbir Thapa

Kulbir Thapa

Kulbir Thapa VC was a first Nepalese recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest military award given to British and Commonwealth forces for gallantry in the face of the enemy.He was a Rifleman in the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Gurkha Rifles, British-Indian Army during the First World War when the...

||Rifleman||3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles

3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles

||First World War||25 September 1915
|-
|Lachhiman Gurung

Lachhiman Gurung

Lachhiman 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.-Details:...

||Rifleman||8th Gurkha Rifles||Second World War||12–13 May 1945
|-
|||Major||County of London Yeomanry

County of London Yeomanry

Several British Army regiments have born the title County of London Yeomanry . Most have been mounted, then armoured regiments.-1st County of London Yeomanry:...

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

||King's Own Scottish Borderers

King's Own Scottish Borderers

||First World War||25 September 1915
|-
|Lala

Lala

Lala 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 soldiers.-Details:...

||Lance Naik

Lance Naik

Lance Naik is the equivalent rank to Lance Corporal in the Pakistan and Indian Armies and before 1947, in the British Indian Army, ranking below Naik. In cavalry units the equivalent is Acting Lance Daffadar. Like a British Lance Corporal, he wore a single rank chevron....

||41st Dogras

41st Dogras

The 41st Dogras were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. They could trace their origins to 1900, when thy were raised as the 41st Bengal Infantry....

||First World War||21 January 1916
|-
|Lalbahadur Thapa

Lalbahadur Thapa

Lalbahadur Thapa VC was an 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....

||Subadar||2nd Gurkha Rifles||Second World War||5–6 April 1943
|-
|||Sergeant Major||84th Regiment of Foot

84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot

||Indian Mutiny||29 June 1857,
16 August 1857,
25 September 1857
|-
|||Private

Private (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
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Durham Light Infantry

Durham Light Infantry

||First World War||3 December 1917
|-
|||Temp. Major||Special Air Service

Special Air Service

Special Air Service or SAS is a corps of the British Army constituted on 31 May 1950. They are part of the United Kingdom Special Forces and have served as a model for the special forces of many other countries all over the world...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|8–9 April 1945*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||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||13 August 1915
|-
|||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....

||Bengal Horse Artillery||Indian Mutiny||14 November 1857 to
22 November 1857
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||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||12 SeptemberSergeant

Sergeant

1918
|-
|||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...

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||7 August 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...

||32nd Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||7 July 1857,
26 September 1857
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||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
|-
|||Temp. Major||Hampshire Regiment||Second World War||3 December 1942
|-
|||Surgeon

Surgeon

||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...

||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...

||4 May 1889
|-
|||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....

& Bengal Sappers and Miners||Second Afghan War||17 March 1879
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Manchester Regiment||First World War||29 October 1914
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||9th Battalion, AIF

9th Battalion, Royal Queensland Regiment

9th Battalion, Royal Queensland Regiment is a Reserve light infantry battalion of the Australian Army, raised and based in the state of Queensland. It is part of the Royal Queensland Regiment and is currently attached to the 11th Brigade of the 2nd Division...

||First World War||23 July 1916
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||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 World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|19 May 1941*
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Major||2nd Battalion, CEF||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|18 August 1917*
|-
|||Flight Lieutenant

Flight Lieutenant

Flight lieutenant is a junior commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many Commonwealth countries. It ranks above flying officer and immediately below squadron leader. The name of the rank is the complete phrase; it is never shortened to "lieutenant"...

||No. 49 Squadron RAF

No. 49 Squadron RAF

No. 49 Squadron was a bomber squadron of the Royal Air Force from 1938 to 1965. They received their first Hampdens in September 1938.They were a famous Hampden squadron; with the only Victoria Cross awarded Rod Learoyd amongst the ones who served on the type....

||Second World War||12 August 1940
|-
|||Major||13th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||28 March 1879
|-
|||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....

||Corps of Royal Engineers||Crimean War

Crimean War

||18 June 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...

||14th Light Dragoons

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....

||Indian Mutiny||1 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||Crimean War

Crimean War

||14 February 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...

||Corps of Royal Engineers||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...

||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....

||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||12 October 1918
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Welsh Regiment||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|22–23 October 1916*
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||Northamptonshire Regiment

Northamptonshire Regiment

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|18–21 September 1918*
|-
|||Temp. 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....

||Second World War||3 April 1945
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Princess Louises's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|31 July 1915}
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||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

||20 September 1854
|-
|||Commander

Commander

||HMS Turbulent

HMS Turbulent (N98)

HMS Turbulent was a T-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was laid down by Vickers Armstrong, Barrow and launched in May 1942.-Career:Turbulent spent most of her career serving in the Mediterranean...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|September 1939 to
23 March 1943}
|-
|||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||9 October 1917
|-
|||Surgeon 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...

||Kachin Hills Expedition

Kachin Hills

The Kachin Hills are a heavily forested group of highlands in the extreme northeastern area of the Kachin State of Burma. It includes the Kumon Bum Mountains of which the highest peak is Bumhpa Bum with an elevation of .-Geography:...

||6 January 1893
|-
|||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 Boer War

Second Boer War

||31 March 1900
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)||First World War||11 August 1917
|-
|||Flight Lieutenant

Flight Lieutenant

||No. 271 Squadron RAF

No. 271 Squadron RAF

No. 271 Squadron of the Royal Air Force was operational for two periods; a few brief months between 27 September 1918 and 9 December 1918 operating flying boats to protect shipping from German U-boats, and between 28 March 1940 and 1 December 1946 No. 271 Squadron of the Royal Air Force was...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|19 September 1944*
|-
|||Temp. Major||Green Howards||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|1 July 1916*
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||21st Battalion, AIF

21st Battalion (Australia)

The 21st Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. It was raised in 1915 as part of the First Australian Imperial Force for service during World War I and formed part of the 6th Brigade, attached to the 2nd Division. It fought during the Gallipoli campaign and on the Western Front...

||First World War||1 September 1918
|-
|||Boatswain's Mate

Boatswain

||HMS Hecla||Crimean War

Crimean War

||21 June 1854
|-
|||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....

||40th 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...

||18 March 1861
|-
|||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
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||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

||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...

||Royal Marine Artillery||First World War||3–4 April 1917
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||102nd Battalion, CEF||First World War||27 September 1918
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||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...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|22–27 April 1943*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||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 May 1915
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||19th Regiment of Foot

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...

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||10 June 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...

||26th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||28 March 1879
|-
|||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 Bengal Native Infantry||Indian Mutiny||23 May 1858
|-
|||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....

||Corps of Royal Engineers||Crimean War

Crimean War

||19 April 1855
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||38th Battalion, CEF

38th Battalion, CEF

The 38th Battalion, CEF was a unit of the First World War Canadian Expeditionary Force. It was mobilized in Ottawa and recruited in Ottawa, Brockville, Perth, Prescott and Alexandria. An initial draft of five officers and 251 other ranks was sent to England on June 24, 1915...

||First World War||9 April 1917
|-
|||Temp. Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles||First World War||29 September 1918 to
3 October 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...

||Princess Louises's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)||First World War||24 August 1918
27 August 1918
|-
|||Major||2nd Gurkha Rifles||Looshai Expedition||4 January 1872
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||93rd Regiment of Foot

93rd Regiment of Foot

||Indian Mutiny||16 November 1857
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||Gordon Highlanders||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||20 May 1900
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||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||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|19 December 1914*
|-
|||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...

||Third Ashanti Expedition||6 June 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....

||2/3rd Pioneer Battalion, AIF

2/3rd Pioneer Battalion (Australia)

The 2/3rd Pioneer Battalion was an assault pioneer battalion of the Australian Army, which served during World War II. Formed in 1940, the battalion served in the Middle East before where it served in Syria and Palestine before taking part in the fighting around El Alamein...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|12 May 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...

||Seaforth Highlanders

Seaforth Highlanders

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|11 April 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 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:...

||17 August 1897
|-
|||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||25 September 1857
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||23rd Battalion, AIF

23rd Battalion (Australia)

The 23rd Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. It was raised in 1915 as part of the Australian Imperial Force for service during World War I and formed part of the 6th Brigade, attached to the 2nd Division. It fought during the Gallipoli campaign and on the Western Front...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|1 September 1918*
|-
|||Sergeant Major||41st Regiment of Foot

41st (Welsh) Regiment of Foot

The 41st Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1719 and amalgamated into The Welch Regiment in 1881....

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||26 October 1854
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Leading Seaman

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

Drummer

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

Sergeant

||1st Madras European Fusiliers||Indian Mutiny||21 September 1857
|-
|||Major||Westminster Regiment||Second World War||24 May 1944
|-
|||Surgeon

Surgeon

||HMS Hazard

HMS Hazard (1894)

The sixth HMS Hazard was a Dryad-class torpedo gunboat. She was launched in 1894 and was converted into the world's first submarine depot ship in 1901...

||Occupation of Crete||6 September 1898
|-
|||Wing Commander

Wing Commander (rank)

Wing commander is a commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many other Commonwealth countries...

||No. 18 Squadron RAF

No. 18 Squadron RAF

No. 18 Squadron of the Royal Air Force operates the CH-47 Chinook HC.2 from RAF Odiham. No. 18 Squadron was the first and is currently the largest RAF operator of the Chinook.-First World War:...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|4 December 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...

||3rd Bombay Light Cavalry||Anglo-Persian War

Anglo-Persian War

The Anglo-Persian War lasted between November 1, 1856 and April 4, 1857, and was fought between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Persia . In the war, the British opposed an attempt by Persia to reacquire the city of Herat...

||8 February 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...

||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||25 September 1915
|-
|||Midshipman

Midshipman

||HMS River Clyde||First World War||25 April 1915
|-
|||Lance-Sergeant||13th Light Dragoons||Crimean War

Crimean War

||25 October 1854
|-
|||Civilian||Bengal Civil Service||Indian Mutiny||30 July 1857
|-
|||Assistant surgeon||Royal Artillery

Royal Artillery

The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery , is the artillery arm of the British Army. Despite its name, it comprises a number of regiments.-History:...

||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...

||29 April 1864
|-
|||Major||No. 85 Squadron RFC||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|17 June 1918 to
26 July 1918*
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||West Yorkshire Regiment||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||27 February 1900
|-
|||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. 50 Squadron RAF

No. 50 Squadron RAF

No. 50 Squadron was a squadron of the Royal Air Force. It was formed during the First World War as a home defence fighter squadron, and operated as a bomber squadron during the Second World War and the Cold War. It disbanded for the last time in 1984....

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|30 May 1942*
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Leading Seaman

||HMS Foylebank

HMS Foylebank

HMS Foylebank was a converted 5,500 ton merchant ship active during the Second World War. She was launched in 1930 and requisitioned in September 1939. She was converted into an anti-aircraft ship, equipped with .5 inch machine guns and four twin high angle 4 inch turrets. The Foylebank saw...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|4 July 1940*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||King's Royal Rifle Corps

King's Royal Rifle Corps

||First World War||22 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...

||King's Royal Rifle Corps

King's Royal Rifle Corps

||Sudan Campaign

Mahdist War

||13 March 1884
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Lieutenant Colonel||Irish Guards

Irish Guards

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|4 November 1918*
|-
|||Quartermaster Sergeant

Quartermaster Sergeant

Quartermaster Sergeant is a class of rank or appointment in some armed forces, especially those of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.-Ireland:Quartermaster Sergeant appointments in the Irish Defence Forces include:...

||19th Hussars||Sudan Campaign

Mahdist War

||29 February 1884
|-
|||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||First World War||12 March 1915
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Protectorate Regiment

Protectorate Regiment

The Protectorate Regiment was a unit of the British Army that was raised for the Second Boer War. It was raised on 15 August 1899 in Cape Town and Mafeking and was disbanded in Cape Town during October 1900. Two members of the unit, Horace Martineau and Horace Ramsden were awarded the Victoria...

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||26 December 1899
|-
|||Surgeon Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

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 African Constabulary
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

First World War||8 February 1902
29 October 1914 to
8 November 1914
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Royal Army Service Corps

Royal Army Service Corps

||First World War||9 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...

||Devonshire Regiment||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||6 January 1900
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Royal Regiment of Artillery||Indian Mutiny||25 September 1857
|-
|||Brevet

Brevet (military)

Lieutenant Colonel||3rd Regiment of Foot||Crimean War

Crimean War

||5 September 1855
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Royal Garrison Artillery

Royal Garrison Artillery

The Royal Garrison Artillery was an arm of the Royal Artillery that was originally tasked with manning the guns of the British Empire's forts and fortresses, including coastal artillery batteries, the heavy gun batteries attached to each infantry division, and the guns of the siege...

||First World War||4 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...

||Robert's Light Horse||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||31 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...

||18th Battalion, AIF

18th Battalion (Australia)

The 18th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. During World War I, the battalion was raised in 1915 as part of the Australian Imperial Force, attached to the 5th Brigade, of the 2nd Division...

||First World War||3 October 1918
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)||First World War||22 October 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...

||5th Victorian Mounted Rifles||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||23 November 1901
|-
|||Midshipman

Midshipman

||Indian Naval Brigade

Naval Brigade

||Indian Mutiny||22 November 1857
|-
|||Lance-Sergeant||King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)||First World War||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....

||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||27 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...

||93rd Regiment of Foot

93rd Regiment of Foot

||Indian Mutiny||11 March 1858
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||Seaforth Highlanders

Seaforth Highlanders

||First World War||20 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...

||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||23 August 1918
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||57th Regiment of Foot

57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot

The 57th Regiment of Foot was a regiment of line infantry in the British Army.-History:The regiment started out as the 59th Regiment of Foot raised in Gloucester in 1755....

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||23 June 1855
|-
|||Surgeon

Surgeon

||1st Cape Mounted Yeomanry||Basuto War

Gun War

||14 January 1881
|-
|||Temp. Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||No. 56 Squadron RFC||First World War||August 1917 to
March 1918
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||47th Regiment of Foot||Crimean War

Crimean War

||5 November 1854
|-
|||Civilian||Bengal Civil Service||Indian Mutiny||30 July 1857
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||44th Regiment of Foot||Third China War||21 August 1860
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||47th Battalion, AIF

47th Battalion (Australia)

The 47th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. It was originally raised in 1916 for service during the First World War and took part in the fighting in the trenches of the Western Front in France and Belgium before being disbanded in early 1918 to provide reinforcements for...

||First World War||28 March 1918
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Royal Irish Rifles||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|1 July 1916*
|-
|||Lance-Sergeant||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 :...

||First Ashanti Expedition||21 January 1874
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||40th Battalion, AIF

40th Battalion (Australia)

The 40th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. Raised in 1916 as part of the First Australian Imperial Force during the First World War, the battalion was recruited completely from Tasmania as part of the 10th Brigade, 3rd Division...

||First World War||4 October 1917
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||1st Bengal Fusiliers

101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers)

The 101st Regiment of Foot was a regiment of the British Army from 1862 to 1881 but with a previous history in the Bengal Army going back to 1652.-History:...

||Indian Mutiny||23 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...

||Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)||First World War||22 October 1918
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

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

Crimean War

||July 1855
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Sergeant

||King's Own Scottish Borderers

King's Own Scottish Borderers

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

Sergeant

||1st Bengal Fusiliers

101st Regiment of Foot (Royal Bengal Fusiliers)

The 101st Regiment of Foot was a regiment of the British Army from 1862 to 1881 but with a previous history in the Bengal Army going back to 1652.-History:...

||Indian Mutiny||14 September 1857
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||5th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||2 October 1857,
22 December 1857
|-
|||Gunner

Gunner (rank)

||Bengal Artillery||Indian Mutiny||14 November 1857 to
22 November 1857
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

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

Private (rank)

||Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)||First World War||23 August 1918
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Parachute Regiment||Falklands War

Falklands War

||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|12 June 1982*
|-
|||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...

||14th Battalion, CEF||First World War||27–28 April 1918
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Scots Fusilier Guards||Crimean War

Crimean War

||20 September 1854
|-
|||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....

||65th 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...

||7 September 1863
|-
|||Able Seaman

Able Seaman (rank)

In the British Royal Navy in the middle of the 18th century, the term able seaman referred to a seaman with at least two years' experience at sea...

||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
|-
|||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...

||Canadian Machine Gun Corps

Canadian Machine Gun Corps

The Canadian Machine Gun Corps was an administrative corps of the Canadian Army. The Canadian Permanent Machine Gun Brigade was organized in the Permanent Force on 3 Nov 1919. The Canadian Permanent Machine Gun Brigade was redesignated the Royal Canadian Permanent Machine Gun Brigade on 16 Jun 1921...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|30 October 1917*
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||No. 2 Squadron RFC||First World War||27 March 1918
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||5th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||26 September 1857
|-
|||Assistant surgeon||78th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||25 September 1857
|-
|||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 Sussex Regiment

Royal Sussex Regiment

||First World War||14 February 1916
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Green Howards||First World War||27 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...

||No. 1 Squadron AFC||First World War||20 March 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....

||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||3 September 1918
|-
||| Lieutenant Colonel||107th Bengal Infantry Regiment

107th Regiment of Foot (Bengal Light Infantry)

The 107th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1862 to 1881, when it was amalgamated into The Royal Sussex Regiment....

||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...

||30 March 1864
|-
|||Lance-Sergeant||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||15 September 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....

||78th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||26 September 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....

||Corps of Royal Engineers||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|14 October 1918*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||95th Regiment of Foot

95th (Derbyshire) Regiment of Foot

The 95th Regiment of Foot was formed when the 95th Rifles were redesignated as The Rifle Brigade . In 1881, during the Childers Reforms, it was united with the 45th Regiment of Foot to form the Sherwood Foresters .-History:...

||Indian Mutiny||6 January 1858
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|30 November 1917 to
1 December 1917*
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||44th Regiment of Foot||Crimean War

Crimean War

||20 October 1854
|-
|||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 Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)||First World War||19 November 1915
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Seaforth Highlanders

Seaforth Highlanders

||First World War||20 July 1918
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Gordon Highlanders||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||21 October 1899
|-
|||Chaplain

Military chaplain

||Royal Army Chaplains' Department

Royal Army Chaplains' Department

||First World War||27–29 March 1916
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Indian Staff Corps

Indian Staff Corps

||Third Ashanti Expedition||30 September 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...

||24th Regiment of Foot|| Indian Mutiny||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|22 January 1879*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)||First World War||21 April 1917
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||4th Battalion, CEF||First World War||1 October 1918
|-
|||Major||South Saskatchewan Regiment||Second World War||19 August 1942
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||16th Battalion, CEF||First World War||2 September 1918
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||12th Frontier Force Regiment

12th Frontier Force Regiment

The 12th Frontier Force Regiment was part of the British Indian Army. It was formed in 1922. It consisted of five regular battalions; numbered 1 to 5 and the 10th Battalion. During the Second World War a further ten battalions were raised. In 1945 the prenomial "12th" was dropped when the British...

||Second Mohmand Campaign||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|29 September 1935*
|-
|||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. 149 Squadron RAF

No. 149 Squadron RAF

No. 149 Squadron RAF was a Royal Air Force Squadron between 1918 and 1956. Formed 1918 in the Royal Flying Corps as a night-bomber unit, it remained in that role for the rest of its existence which spanned three periods between 1918 and 1956.-World War I:...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|28 November 1942*
|-
|||Commander

Commander

||HMS Torbay

HMS Torbay (N79)

was a T-class submarine of the Royal Navy. She was laid down at Chatham Dockyard and launched on 9 April 1940.Torbay had an active and successful career, serving mainly in the Mediterranean, although she also served in the Pacific Far East at the end of the war.Altogether she sank 17 merchant...

||Second World War||4–5 March 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...

||10th Hussars||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||5 January 1900
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Gloucestershire Regiment||First World War||23 October 1918
|-
|||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
|-
|||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 Regiment of Artillery||Crimean War

Crimean War

||5 November 1854
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Bengal Ordnance Depot||Indian Mutiny||28 October 1857
|-
|||Conductor||King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|30–31 July 1916*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Manchester Regiment||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|10–11 December 1917*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||16th Battalion, CEF||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|9 April 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....

||58th Battalion, CEF||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|8 August 1918*
|-
|Mir Dast

Mir Dast

Mir Dast VC IOM 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:...

||Jemadar

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...

||55th Coke's Rifles (Frontier Force)

55th Coke's Rifles (Frontier Force)

The 55th Coke's Rifles was a regiment of the British Indian Army. It was raised in 1849 as the 1st Regiment of Punjab Infantry. It was designated as the 55th Coke's Rifles in 1903 and became 1st Battalion 13th Frontier Force Rifles in 1922...

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

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||4th Canadian Engineers||First World War||8–9 October 1918
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Gordon Highlanders||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|23–24 January 1944*
|-
|||Captain of the Foretop

Petty Officer

||HMS Harrier

HMS Harrier (1854)

HMS Harrier was a Royal Navy Cruizer-class sloop launched in 1854. She took part in the Crimean War, served on the Australia Station and took part in the New Zealand Wars. She was broken up in 1865-Crimean War:...

||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...

||29 April 1864
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||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||14 October 1918
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Royal Fusiliers||First World War||9 October 1917
|-
|||Trumpeter

Trumpeter (rank)

A Trumpeter is a regiment specific, descriptive name given to Privates in the British Army. It is used for trumpeters in the Household Cavalry and was formerly used in all other cavalry regiments.-See also:...

||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
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||23rd Regiment of Foot

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...

||Indian Mutiny||18 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...

||58th Battalion, AIF

58th Battalion (Australia)

The 58th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. It was raised in 1916 for overseas service during World War I and saw action on the Western Front from June 1916 until the end of the war...

||First World War||12 May 1917
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Hampshire Regiment||First World War||5 June 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...

||3rd Bombay Light Cavalry||Anglo-Persian War

Anglo-Persian War

||8 February 1857
|-
|||Major||88th Regiment of Foot

88th Regiment of Foot

Three regiments of the British Army have been numbered the 88th Regiment of Foot:* 88th Regiment of Foot , also known as "Campbell's Regiment"* 88th Regiment of Foot...

||9th Cape Frontier War||29 December 1877
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Hampshire Regiment||First World War||20 September 1917
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Military Train

Royal Army Service Corps

||Indian Mutiny||15 April 1858
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria's)||First World War||12 April 1915
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||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||27 January 1917
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||No. 20 Squadron RFC||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|7 January 1917*
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||6th Dragoons

6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons

The 6th Dragoons was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1689. It saw service for three centuries, before being amalgamated into the 5th/6th Dragoons in 1922.The 'Skins' are one of the four ancestor regiments of the Royal Dragoon...

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||26 October 1854
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)||First World War||26 March 1918
|-
|||Lance-Sergeant||Irish Guards

Irish Guards

||First World War||12–13 September 1917
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||90th Regiment of Foot||Crimean War

Crimean War

||8 September 1855
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||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||11 April 1917
|-
|||Major||Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland is an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland....

||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...

||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|23 September 1950*
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||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
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry is one of the three regular force infantry regiments of the Canadian Army. The regiment is composed of four battalions including a primary reserve battalion, for a total of 2,000 soldiers...

||First World War||30 October 1917
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Imperial Light Horse||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||21 October 1899
|-
|||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....

||93rd Regiment of Foot

93rd Regiment of Foot

||Indian Mutiny||16 November 1857
|-
|||Farrier

Farrier

A farrier is a specialist in equine hoof care, including the trimming and balancing of horses' hooves and the placing of shoes on their hooves...

||Military Train

Royal Army Service Corps

||Indian Mutiny||15 April 1858
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

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

Andaman Islands Expedition

||7 May 1867
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||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||4–5 February 1917
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||Connaught Rangers||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]
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||68th 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...

||21 June 1864
|-
|||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 Regiment||First World War||9 April 1916
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||84th Regiment of Foot

84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot

||Indian Mutiny||12 July 1857 to
25 September 1857
|-
|||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. 419 Squadron RCAF

No. 419 Squadron RCAF

419 Tactical Fighter Training Squadron is an air force unit with the Canadian Forces. The squadron was originally formed during the Second World War as part of the Royal Canadian Air Force...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|12 June 1944*
|-
|}

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