List of Victoria Cross recipients (N–Z)

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

A military decoration is a decoration given to military personnel or units for heroism in battle or distinguished service. They are designed to be worn on military uniform....

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

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom. It originated with the overseas colonies and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. At its height, it was the...

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

Military rank

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

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

Victoria of the United Kingdom

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

issued a warrant

Warrant (law)

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

under the Royal sign-manual

Royal sign-manual

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

on 29 January 1856 that was gazetted

London Gazette

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

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

Crimean War

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

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

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

Royal sign-manual

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

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

Medal bar

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

, which is a medal for two actions; Noel Chavasse

Noel Godfrey Chavasse

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

, Arthur Martin-Leake

Arthur Martin-Leake

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

and Charles Upham

Charles Upham

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

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

Second Boer War

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

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

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

Siege of Lucknow

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

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

Sikandar Bagh

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

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

Rorke's Drift

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

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

Victoria Cross for Australia

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

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

Victoria Cross for New Zealand

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

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

War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

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

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

Mark Donaldson

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

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

Ben Roberts-Smith

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

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

The youngest recipient of the VC was Andrew Fitzgibbon

Andrew Fitzgibbon

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

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

William Raynor

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

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

Charles John Stanley Gough

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

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

Hugh Henry Gough

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

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

Recipients (N–Z)

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

Military rank

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

British Armed Forces

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

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

Name	Rank	Unit	Campaign	Date of action
Namdeo Jadav Namdeo Jadav Namdeo Jadav 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:...	NOR-2.2Sepoy 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:...	Maratha Light Infantry Maratha Light Infantry The Maratha Light Infantry is a light infantry regiment of the Indian Army. It was formed as the 103rd Maharattas in 1768, making it the most senior light infantry regiment of the Army....	Second World War	1945-04-099 April 1945
Nand Singh Nand Singh Nand Singh VC MVC 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.-World War II:...	NOR-4.2Acting 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... Naik Naik (military rank) Naik is the equivalent rank to Corporal in the Indian Army and Pakistan Army, and previously in the British Indian Army and the Camel Corps, ranking between Lance Naik and Havildar. In cavalry units the equivalent is Lance Daffadar. Like a British Corporal, a Naik wears two rank chevrons....	Sikh Regiment	Second World War	1944-03-1111–12 March 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....	01313th Regiment of Foot	Indian Mutiny	1858-04-066 April 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....	Rifle BrigadeRifle Brigade	Indian Mutiny	1858-03-1111 March 1858
	OF-3.3Lieutenant 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 E11 HMS E11 HMS E11 was an E-class submarine of the Royal Navy launched on 23 April 1914. E11 was one of the most successful submarines in action during the 1915 naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign, sinking over 80 vessels of all sizes in three tours of the Sea of Marmara.-European operations:In...	First World War	1915-05-2020 May 1915 to 8 June 1915
	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...	Corps of Royal Engineers	First World War	1914-12-1919 December 1914
	NOR-2.2Private Private (rank) A Private is a soldier of the lowest military rank .In modern military parlance, 'Private' is shortened to 'Pte' in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries and to 'Pvt.' in the United States.Notably both Sir Fitzroy MacLean and Enoch Powell are examples of, rare, rapid career...	Bedfordshire Regiment	First World War	1918-09-1010–11 September 1918
	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....	King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)	First World War	1918-09-2727 September 1918*
	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....	Royal Horse Artillery Royal Horse Artillery The regiments of the Royal Horse Artillery , dating from 1793, are part of the Royal Regiment of Artillery of the British Army...	First World War	1914-09-011 September 1914
	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...	Mashonaland Mounted Police	Mashona Rebellion	1896-06-1919 June 1896
Netrabahadur Thapa Netrabahadur Thapa Netrabahadur Thapa 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:...	OF-2.2Acting 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... Subadar	0055th Gurkha Rifles	Second World War	1944-06-2525–26 June 1944
	OF-3.1Squadron Leader Squadron Leader Squadron Leader is a commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many countries which have historical British influence. It is also sometimes used as the English translation of an equivalent rank in countries which have a non-English air force-specific rank structure. In these...	No. 044No. 44 Squadron RAF No. 44 Squadron RAF No. 44 Squadron of the Royal Air Force is no longer operational. For most of its history it served as a heavy bomber squadron.-History:...	Second World War	1942-04-1717 April 1942
	NOR-2.2Private Private (rank) A Private is a soldier of the lowest military rank .In modern military parlance, 'Private' is shortened to 'Pte' in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries and to 'Pvt.' in the United States.Notably both Sir Fitzroy MacLean and Enoch Powell are examples of, rare, rapid career...	0099th 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	1858-03-1919 March 1858
	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...	01212th Battalion, AIF	First World War

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|||Lieutenant Colonel||Essex Regiment

Essex Regiment

The Essex Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army that saw active service from 1881 to 1958. Members of the regiment were recruited from across Essex county. Its lineage is continued by the Royal Anglian Regiment.-Origins:...

||Second World War||28 March 1942
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|||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. 22 Squadron RAAF

No. 22 Squadron RAAF

No. 22 Squadron is a Royal Australian Air Force mixed regular and reserve squadron that provides support for the RAAF in the Sydney region. Formed in 1936, the squadron served in Papua New Guinea during the Second World War, and later followed the Pacific war as far as the Philippines...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|16–18 March 1943}
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|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

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

||28th Māori Battalion, NZEF

Maori Battalion

The 28th Battalion, more commonly known as the Māori Battalion, was an infantry battalion of the New Zealand Army that served during the Second World War. It was formed following pressure on the Labour government by some Māori MPs and Māori organisations throughout the country wanting a full Māori...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|26–27 March 1943*
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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...

||Canterbury Regiment||First World War||3 December 1917
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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...

||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...

||Second World War||21 May 1940
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|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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

||Royal 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

||20 April 1900
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|||Flight Lieutenant

Flight Lieutenant

||No. 249 Squadron RAF

No. 249 Squadron RAF

No. 249 Squadron RAF was a Royal Air Force squadron, active in the sea-patrol, fighter and bomber roles during its existence.-First formation:...

||Second World War||16 August 1940
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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....

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

Private (rank)

||7th Regiment of Foot||Crimean War

Crimean War

||19 December 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...

||Kaffrarian Rifles

Kaffrarian Rifles

The Kaffrarian Rifles is an infantry regiment of the South African Army. As a reserve unit, it has a status roughly equivalent to that of a British Territorial Army or United States Army National Guard unit...

||Second World War||31 August 1944
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|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||5th Dragoon Guards

5th Dragoon Guards

The 5th Dragoon Guards was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1685. It saw service for three centuries, before being amalgamated into the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards in 1922....

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||30 October 1899
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|||Private

Private (rank)

||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||1–2 September 1918
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|||Corporal

Corporal

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

||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....

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||15 December 1899
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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....

||Royal Dublin Fusiliers||First World War||4 October 1917
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|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Royal Welch Fusiliers

Royal Welch Fusiliers

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

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||20 September 1854
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|||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...

||HMS Niger

HMS Niger (1846)

HMS Niger was a 8-gun screw sloop launched on 18 November 1846 from Woolwich Dockyard. She had been intended as a sailing sloop but her design was lengthened to fit a steam engine, and she was fitted with screw propulsion at Deptford Dockyard in 1847-48 prior to completion...

||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...

||28 March 1860
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|||Private

Private (rank)

||Rifle Brigade||align="center"|—||9 June 1866
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|||Acting

Acting (rank)

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...

||52nd Battalion, CEF||First World War||26 October 1917
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|||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...

||First World War||1 February 1915
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|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Bengal Artillery||Indian Mutiny||25 September 1857
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|||Private

Private (rank)

||16th Battalion, AIF||First World War||9–12 August 1916
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|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||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
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|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||Devonshire Regiment||First World War||22 August 1918
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|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)||First World War||14 April 1917
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|||Private

Private (rank)

||7th Battalion, CEF

7th Battalion, CEF

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

||First World War||15–17 August 1917
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|||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...

||Winnipeg Grenadiers||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|19 December 1941*
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|||Private

Private (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:...

||22 February 1881
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|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

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

||First World War||1–2 July 1915
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|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Cape Frontier Light Horse||Zulu War||3 July 1879
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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....

||49th Regiment of Foot

Royal Berkshire Regiment

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

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||30 October 1854
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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....

||32nd Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||30 June 1857
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|||Private

Private (rank)

||Grenadier Guards

Grenadier Guards

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||5 November 1854
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|||Lance-Sergeant||Royal Fusiliers||First World War||16–17 February 1917
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|||Squadron Leader

Squadron Leader

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

||No. 109 Squadron RAF

No. 109 Squadron RAF

No. 109 Squadron RAF was an aircraft squadron of the Royal Air Force during World War II. It operated Wellington VIs.-History:The squadron first formed on 1 November 1917 as 109 Squadron Royal Flying Corps at South Carlton in 1917 operating the de Havilland DH.9 until it was disbanded on 19 August...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|23 December 1944*
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|||Gunner

Gunner (rank)

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

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

Sergeant

||77th Regiment of Foot

77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot

The 77th Regiment of Foot was a line regiment of the British Army . In 1881 it was united with the 57th Regiment of Foot to form The Middlesex Regiment ....

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||19 April 1855
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|Parkash Singh

Parkash Singh

Havildar Parkash Singh VC was a Sikh 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:...

||Havildar

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...

||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||6 January 1943
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|||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 Boer War

Second Boer War

||31 March 1900
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||Royal Marine Light Infantry||First World War||30 April 1915 to
1 May 1915
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||4th Light Dragoons

4th Queen's Own Hussars

The 4th Queen's Own Hussars was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1685. It saw service for three centuries, before being amalgamated into The Queen's Royal Irish Hussars in 1958....

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||25 October 1854
|-
|||Mercantile Marine Master

Master mariner

A Master Mariner or MM is the professional qualification required for someone to serve as the person in charge or person in command of a commercial vessel. In England, the term Master Mariner has been in use at least since the 13th century, reflecting the fact that in guild or livery company terms,...

||Royal Naval Reserve

Royal Naval Reserve

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

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|4 July 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...

||Essex Regiment

Essex Regiment

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||18 February 1900
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Second Lieutenant

||Gloucestershire Regiment||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|20–21 August 1917
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||8th Battalion, AIF||Second World War||24 July 1945
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Grenadier Guards

Grenadier Guards

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

Sergeant

||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
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||50th Battalion, CEF

50th Battalion, CEF

The 50th Canadian Battalion was a battalion of the First World War Canadian Expeditionary Force. The battalion was commanded by Colonel E.G. Mason at the beginning of the war. Later in the war, he was put with another battalion and Lieutenant-Colonel Page took over the battalion. The battalion...

||First World War||10 April 1917
|-
|||Warrant Officer Class II

Warrant Officer (United Kingdom)

In the British Armed Forces, a warrant officer is the highest non-commissioned rank, holding the Queen's warrant, which is signed by the Secretary of State for Defence. Warrant officers are not saluted, but are to be addressed as 'Sir/Ma'am' by subordinates. Their seniors may address warrant...

||Australian Army Training Team Vietnam

Australian Army Training Team Vietnam

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

||Vietnam War

Vietnam War

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

||24 May 1969
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

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

Acting (rank)

Major||5th Battalion Canadian Mounted Rifles

5th Battalion Canadian Mounted Rifles

The 5th Battalion Canadian Mounted Rifles were a mounted infantry unit of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I. The unit was raised from volunteers of the 7th and XIth Hussars from the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Formed in 1915, they were transported to England later that year...

||First World War||30–31 October 1917
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Royal Fusiliers||North Russia Relief Force

British Campaign in the Baltic 1918-19

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

||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|29 August 1919*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||86th Regiment of Foot

86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot

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

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

Private (rank)

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

Captain (Royal Navy)

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

||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

||18 October 1854
5 November 1854
18 June 1855
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||3rd Battalion, AIF||First World War||4 October 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...

||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...

||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
|-
|||Colonel||Grenadier Guards

Grenadier Guards

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||5 November 1854
|-
|||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||Crimean War

Crimean War

||18 June 1855
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Captain

Captain (Royal Navy)

||HMS Walney

HMS Walney (Y04)

HMS Walney , launched in 1930 as USCGC Sebago, was a Banff class sloop. She was transferred to the Royal Navy in 1941 and lost in 1942 in Operation Reservist, an attack on Oran that formed part of Operation Torch...

||Second World War||8 November 1942
|-
|||Ensign||11th Bengal Native Infantry||Indian Mutiny||30 May 1857 to
18 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 Warwickshire Regiment||First World War||25 January 1917
|-
|||Major||Royal Horse Artillery

Royal Horse Artillery

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

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||31 March 1900
|-
|||Ensign||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...

||20 November 1863
|-
|||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 Dunraven

HMS Dunraven

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

||First World War||8 August 1917
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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

||4th Punjab Infantry||Umbeyla Campaign

Umbeyla Campaign

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

||30 October 1863
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Manchester Regiment||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||6 January 1900
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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

||HMS X7||Second World War||22 September 1943
|-
|||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||29 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....

||Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

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

||First World War||27 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...

||11th Battalion, AIF||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|15 April 1917*
|-
|||Temp. Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Royal Regiment of Artillery||Second World War||19 August 1942
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Berkshire Yeomanry

Berkshire Yeomanry

94 Signal Squadron forms part of 39 Signal Regiment. They are currently based in three locations in the Home Counties...

||First World War||21 August 1915
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)||First World War||10 April 1918
|-
|Prakash Singh

Prakash Singh

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

||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...

||13th Frontier Force Rifles

13th Frontier Force Rifles

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

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|16–17 February 1945*
|-
|Premindra Bhagat

Premindra Singh Bhagat

Lieutenant General Premindra Singh Bhagat VC, PVSM was an officer in the Indian Army during World War II and 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, and the PVSM,...

||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Corps of Indian Engineers||Second World War||31 January 1941 to
1 February 1941
|-
|||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...

||Madras 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||21 November 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....

||Royal Marine Light Infantry||Crimean War

Crimean War

||5 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...

||King's Royal Rifle Corps

King's Royal Rifle Corps

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||17 September 1901
|-
|||Captain of the Afterguard

Petty Officer

||Royal Navy

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

||Bombardment of Shimonoseki

Bombardment of Shimonoseki

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

||6 September 1864
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||2nd Punjab Cavalry

12th Cavalry (Frontier Force)

The 12th Cavalry is an armoured regiment of Pakistan Army. It was formed in the British Indian army in 1922 by the amalgamation of 22nd Sam Browne's Cavalry and 25th Cavalry ....

||Indian Mutiny||1857 to
1858
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||King's (Liverpool Regiment)||First World War||4 June 1916
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||1st Regiment of Foot||Crimean War

Crimean War

||16 June 1855
|-
|||Chief Petty Officer||Royal Naval Division||First World War||2 September 1918
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Grenadier Guards

Grenadier Guards

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|11–12 April 1918*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||9th Queen's Royal Lancers

9th Queen's Royal Lancers

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

||Indian Mutiny||19 June 1857
|-
|||Sergeant Major||53rd Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||17 November 1857
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||10th Parachute Battalion||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|19 September 1944*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Royal Irish Rifles||First World War||1 July 1916
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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

||Naval Brigade

Naval Brigade

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||18 June 1855
|-
|Ram Singh

Ram Sarup Singh

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

||Acting

Acting (rank)

Subadar||1st Punjab Regiment

1st Punjab Regiment

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

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|25 October 1944*
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||2nd Dragoons||Crimean War

Crimean War

||25 October 1854
|-
|Rambahadur Limbu

Rambahadur Limbu

Captain Rambahadur Limbu, VC, MVO is a Nepalese 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. Rambahadur Limbu belongs to the Begha Clan of Limbu Nationality of Nepal. He retired with the honorary...

||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||10th Gurkha Rifles||Malaysia-Indonesia Confrontation||21 November 1965
|-
|||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...

||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
|-
|||Temp. Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||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;"|4–6 May 1944*
|-
|||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;"|19–20 September 1914*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)||First World War||14 June 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....

||25th Battalion, AIF||Second World War||22 March 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...

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||15 December 1899
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||7th Battalion, CEF

7th Battalion, CEF

||First World War||2–4 September 1918
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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

||Corps of Royal Engineers||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|21 March 1945}
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Sergeant

||Royal Field Artillery

Royal Field Artillery

||First World War||11 October 1915
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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

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

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Northamptonshire Regiment

Northamptonshire Regiment

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

||61st Regiment of Foot

61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot

The 61st Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, created in 1758 and amalgamated into The Gloucestershire Regiment in 1881....

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

Private (rank)

||Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment)||First World War||25 February 1917
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Royal Field Artillery

Royal Field Artillery

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||15 December 1899
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||South Wales Borderers||First World War||31 July 1917
|-
|||Temp. Major||No. 32 Squadron RFC||First World War||1 July 1916
|-
|||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

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||5 November 1854
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||King's (Liverpool Regiment)||First World War||8–10 March 1917
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Flight Lieutenant

||No. 61 Squadron RAF||Second World War||3 November 1943
|-
|||Bandsman

Military band

A military band originally was a group of personnel that performs musical duties for military functions, usually for the armed forces. A typical military band consists mostly of wind and percussion instruments. The conductor of a band commonly bears the title of Bandmaster or Director of Music...

||Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

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

||First World War||20 November 1914
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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

||90th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||21 September 1857,
25 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 Horse Artillery||Indian Mutiny||16 September 1857
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Royal Field Artillery

Royal Field Artillery

||First World War||26 August 1914
9 September 1914
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)||First World War||20 September 1917
|-
|||Surgeon Major||Army Medical Department

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...

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

Private (rank)

||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
|-
|||Lance-Sergeant||Grenadier Guards

Grenadier Guards

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

Second Lieutenant

||No. 2 Squadron RFC||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|26 April 1915*
|-
|||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||25 April 1915
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Lord Strathcona's Horse||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||5 July 1900
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||34th Regiment of Foot

34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot

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

||Indian Mutiny||27 April 1859
|-
|||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...

||16th Battalion, CEF||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|8 October 1916*
|-
|Richhpal Ram

Richhpal Ram

Richhpal 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.-His family:...

||Subadar||6th Rajputana Rifles

6th Rajputana Rifles

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

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|7 February 1941
|-
|||Quartermaster

Quartermaster

Quartermaster refers to two different military occupations depending on if the assigned unit is land based or naval.In land armies, especially US units, it is a term referring to either an individual soldier or a unit who specializes in distributing supplies and provisions to troops. The senior...

||HMS Weser||Crimean War

Crimean War

||11 October 1855
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Royal Newfoundland Regiment||First World War||14 October 1918
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Bengal Staff Corps||Second Naga Hills Expedition||22 November 1879
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||York and Lancaster Regiment

York and Lancaster Regiment

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

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|1 October 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....

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

HMS Goliath (1898)

HMS Goliath was one of the six Canopus-class pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Royal Navy in the late 19th century. In the First World War Goliath took part in the blockade of the German light cruiser in the Rufiji River but unsuccessful to bombard the cruiser in the delta.On 13 May 1915...

||First World War||28 November 1914
|-
|||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...

||Seaforth Highlanders

Seaforth Highlanders

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

||First World War||1 July 1916
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Sherwood Foresters

Sherwood Foresters

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

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

Gunner (rank)

||HMS Ardent

HMS Ardent (1841)

HMS Ardent was a wooden Alecto-class paddle sloop of the Royal Navy. She was the fourth ship to use the name Ardent. She was launched on 12 February 1841 at Chatham. She was scrapped in 1865. One of the ship's company, Gunner John Robarts, was awarded the Victoria Cross for arson of food stores in...

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||29 May 1855
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Lieutenant Colonel||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||22 March 1918 to
2 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...

||King's Royal Rifle Corps

King's Royal Rifle Corps

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||15 December 1899
|-
|||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||2 January 1858
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||9th Queen's Royal Lancers

9th Queen's Royal Lancers

||Indian Mutiny||28 September 1857
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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

||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
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||Royal Fusiliers||First World War||8–9 March 1918
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment||First World War||4 October 1917
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||27th Battalion, CEF||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|6 November 1917*
|-
|||Sergeant Major||Gordon Highlanders||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||21 October 1899
|-
|||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

||Indian Mutiny||13 March 1858
|-
|||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 Vengeance

HMS Vengeance (1899)

HMS Vengeance was a Royal Navy predreadnought battleship of the Canopus class.-Technical Characteristics:HMS Vengeance was laid down by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness on 23 August 1898 and launched on 25 July 1899. Her completion was delayed by damage to the fitting-out dock, and she was not...

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

||No. 39 Squadron RFC||First World War||2–3 September 1916
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)||First World War||14 December 1914
|-
|||Ensign||Bengal Army

Bengal Army

The Bengal Army was the army of the Presidency of Bengal, one of the three Presidencies of British India, in South Asia. Although based in Bengal in eastern India, the presidency stretched across northern India and the Himalayas all the way to the North West Frontier Province...

||Indian Mutiny||27 September 1858
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||71st Regiment of Foot

71st (Highland) Regiment of Foot

The 71st Regiment of Foot was a Highland regiment in the British Army, which in 1881 became the 1st Battalion, Highland Light Infantry .- First formation :...

||Indian Mutiny||16 June 1858
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||South African Constabulary||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||15 June 1901
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Wiltshire Regiment

Wiltshire Regiment

The Wiltshire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army, formed in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 62nd Regiment of Foot and the 99th Duke of Edinburgh's Regiment of Foot....

||Second World War||3 June 1944
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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

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

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||1st Bombay Grenadiers||Third Somaliland Expedition||22 April 1903
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Lance Corporal

||Royal Irish Regiment||First World War||16 August 1917
|-
|||Lieutenant Commander

Lieutenant Commander

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

||HMS Glowworm

HMS Glowworm (H92)

HMS Glowworm was a G-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. During the Spanish Civil War the ship spent part of 1936 and 1937 in Spanish waters, enforcing the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides of the conflict...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|8 April 1940
|-
|||Sergeant Major||37th Bengal Native Infantry||Indian Mutiny||4 June 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||Crimean War

Crimean War

||21 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...

||East Surrey Regiment

East Surrey Regiment

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

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

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||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

||5 November 1854
|-
|||Troop Sergeant Major

Troop Sergeant Major

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

||9th Queen's Royal Lancers

9th Queen's Royal Lancers

||Indian Mutiny||19 March 1858
|-
|||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||Grenadier Guards

Grenadier Guards

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||5 November 1854
|-
|||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||6 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...

||5th Battalion Canadian Mounted Rifles

5th Battalion Canadian Mounted Rifles

||First World War||26 August 1918
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||22nd Battalion, AIF||First World War||19 May 1918
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||1st Madras European Fusiliers||Indian Mutiny||26 September 1857
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||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
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||55th Battalion, AIF

55th Battalion (Australia)

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

||First World War||30 September 1918
|-
|||Drummer

Drummer

||101st Regiment of Foot

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)

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

Commander

||HMS Campbeltown

HMS Campbeltown (I42)

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

||Second World War||28 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...

||51st Battalion, AIF||First World War||24–25 April 1918
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's)||First World War||4 October 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...

||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...

||Naval Brigade

Naval Brigade

||Indian Mutiny||16 November 1857
|-
|||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....

||Royal Naval Reserve

Royal Naval Reserve

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

Corporal

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

||Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment)||First World War||1 July 1916
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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

||HMS Prize

HMS Prize

At least one ship of the Royal Navy has been named HMS Prize including a Q-ship of World War I; see William Edward Sanders....

||First World War||30 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...

||HMS C3

HMS C3

HMS C3 was a British C class submarine built by Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness. She was laid down on 25 November 1905 and was commissioned on 23 February 1906....

||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...

||Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)

Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)

The Loyal Regiment was an infantry regiment of the line in the British Army from 1881 to 1970...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|23 April 1943*
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||59th Regiment of Foot

59th Regiment of Foot

Three regiments of the British Army have been numbered the 59th Regiment of Foot:*48th Regiment of Foot, 59th Regiment of Foot, British infantry regiment numbered as the 59th Foot in 1747 and renumbered as the 48th in 1751....

||Second Afghan War||24 October 1879
|-
|||Major||6th Bengal Cavalry||First Ashanti Expedition||17 January 1874
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Suffolk Regiment

Suffolk Regiment

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

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

||HM Motor Gun Boat

Motor Gun Boat

Motor Gun Boat was a Royal Navy term for a small military vessel of the Second World War. They were physically similar to the Motor Torpedo Boats but equipped with a mix of guns instead of torpedoes. Their small size and high speed made them difficult targets for E-boats or torpedo bombers, but...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|28 March 1942*
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment||First World War||21 March 1918
|-
|||Squadron Leader

Squadron Leader

||No. 62 Squadron RAF

No. 62 Squadron RAF

-World War I:No. 62 Squadron RAF was formed on 8 August 1916, at Filton from No. 7 Training Squadron. In May 1917 it equipped with the Bristol F2B, before being posted to France in January 1918. The squadron operated as fighter-reconnaissance unit until disbanding on 31 July 1919. Its wartime...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|9 December 1941*
|-
|||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....

||Natal Native Contingent

Natal Native Contingent

The Natal Native Contingent was a large force of auxiliary soldiers in British South Africa, forming a large portion of the defence forces of the British colony of Natal, and saw action during the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War. The NNC was originally created in 1878 out of the local black population in order...

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

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Royal Field Artillery

Royal Field Artillery

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||15 December 1899
|-
|||Temp. Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Lancashire Fusiliers

Lancashire Fusiliers

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

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|9 April 1918*
|-
|||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

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||5 November 1854
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Bengal Staff Corps||Baluchistan

History of Balochistan

Balochistan is known to be the largest province and one of the four provinces of today's Pakistan. The British Empire on October 1, as paramount power in the region reached a security agreement with the princely state of Kalat which was ruled by the Khan of Kalat 1887 but the kingdom retained its...

||26 July 1877
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Manchester Regiment||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||6 January 1900
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Cape Mounted Riflemen

Cape Mounted Riflemen

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

||Basuto War

Gun War

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

||8 April 1879
|-
|||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||25 April 1915
|-
|||Temp. Lieutenant Colonel||Green Howards||Second World War||20–21 March 1943
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

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

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|29 September 1918*
|-
|||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....

||HMS Eurayalus

HMS Euryalus (1853)

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

||Bombardment of Shimonoseki

Bombardment of Shimonoseki

||6 September 1864
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||72nd Regiment of Foot

72nd Regiment of Foot

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

||Second Afghan War||14 December 1879
|-
|||Petty Officer

Petty Officer

||HMS Coventry

HMS Coventry (D43)

HMS Coventry was a C-class light cruiser of the British Royal Navy, named after the English city of Coventry. She was part of the Ceres group of the C-class of cruisers.-Early career and wartime service:...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|18 May 1941}
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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

||Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|29 August 1918*
|-
|Shahamad Khan

Shahamad Khan

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

||Naik

Naik (military rank)

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

||89th Punjab Regiment||First World War||12–13 April 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...

||43rd Battalion, CEF||First World War||26 October 1917
|-
|||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....

||Lincolnshire Regiment||First World War||9 May 1915
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

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

||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

||11 December 1899
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||18th 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...

||24 January 1865
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Rifle Brigade||Indian Mutiny||13 June 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...

||60th Bengal Native Infantry

Bengal Native Infantry

The Bengal Native Infantry was part of the organisation of the East India Company's Bengal Army before the Indian rebellion of 1857.The infantry regiments underwent frequent changes of numbering during their period of existence...

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

Private (rank)

||King's Royal Rifle Corps

King's Royal Rifle Corps

||First World War||20 November 1917
|-
|||Boatswain's Mate

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...

||Naval Brigade

Naval Brigade

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||15 July 1855
|-
|Sher Thapa

Sher Bahadur Thapa

Sher Bahadur Thapa 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||9th Gurkha Rifles||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|18–19 September 1944*
|-
|Sher Shah

Sher Shah (VC)

Sher Shah Awan VC was a British Indian Army soldier from the village of Chakrala, about 30km east from Mianwali, Punjab region that is now Pakistan, who received the Victoria Cross which is the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British...

||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....

||16th Punjab Regiment

16th Punjab Regiment

The 16th 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 15th Punjab Regiments in 1956 to form the Punjab Regiment....

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|19–20 January 1945*
|-
|||Captain

Captain (Royal Navy)

||HMS Onslow

HMS Onslow (G17)

HMS Onslow was an O-class destroyer flotilla leader of the Royal Navy She was ordered from John Brown & Company at Clydebank, Glasgow on 3 September 1939. The ship was laid down on 1 July 1940 and launched on 31 March 1941. She was completed on 8 October 1941 at a cost of £416,942.Attached to the...

||Second World War||31 December 1942
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Lieutenant Colonel||Norfolk Regiment||First World War||20 November 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 Welch Fusiliers

Royal Welch Fusiliers

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

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||8 September 1855
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Green Howards||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|6 August 1916*
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||1st Battalion, AIF||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|9 August 1915*
|-
|||Temp. Major||Grenadier Guards

Grenadier Guards

||Second World War||8–9 February 1944
|-
|||Lance-Sergeant||18th Battalion, CEF||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|9 April 1917*
|-
|||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:...

||42nd Regiment of Foot

42nd Regiment of Foot

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

||Indian Mutiny||15 April 1858
|-
|||Warrant Officer Class II

Warrant Officer (United Kingdom)

||Australian Army Training Team Vietnam

Australian Army Training Team Vietnam

||Vietnam War

Vietnam War

||6–11 May 1969
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||34th Regiment of Foot

34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot

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

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||18 June 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....

||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||6 October 1857
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Indian Medical Service

Indian Medical Service

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

||First World War||21 January 1916
|-
|||Company Sergeant Major

Company Sergeant Major

||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||18 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....

||Corps of 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....

||Indian Mutiny||3 April 1858
|-
|||Gunner

Gunner (rank)

||Royal Regiment of Artillery||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...

||17 January 1885
|-
|||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||23 December 1915
|-
|||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 Naval Reserve

Royal Naval Reserve

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|10 March 1917*
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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

||Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

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

||Fourth Somaliland Expedition||10 January 1904
|-
|||Lance-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||21–23 August 1918
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||1st Canadian Infantry Division

1st Canadian Infantry Division

The 1st Canadian Infantry Division was a formation mobilized on 1 September 1939 for service in the Second World War. The division was also reactivated twice during the Cold War....

||Second World War||21–22 October 1944
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

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

||17th Regiment of Foot

Royal Leicestershire Regiment

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

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||18 June 1855
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||43rd 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 January 1864
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||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)

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....

||Manchester Regiment||First World War||26 April 1915
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

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

||Corps of Royal Engineers||Mohmand Campaign

Mohmand Campaign

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

||16 September 1897
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||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||21 December 1914
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Bengal Sappers and Miners||Indian Mutiny||14 September 1857
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||1st Madras European Fusiliers||Indian Mutiny||16 November 1857
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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

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

Hunza-Naga Campaign

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

||20 December 1891
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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

||15th Ludhiana Sikhs

15th Ludhiana Sikhs

The 15th Ludhiana Sikhs was an infantry regiment in the British Indian Army. They could trace their origins to 1846, when they were known as the Regiment of Ludhiana. During the Indian Mutiny they were relied upon to hold Benares throughout the period of the Mutiny...

||First World War||18 May 1915
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||2nd Dragoon Guards||Sudan Campaign

Mahdist War

||2 September 1898
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Royal Natal Carabineers||Second World War||5 June 1942
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||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||1–2 July 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||20 November 1917
|-
|||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||13 August 1918
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)

Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)

It all began in 1725 when General Wade, as leader of the King's Army in Scotland, and involved in his great project of building the military roads there, set up six companies of the Highland "Watch". These were formed to stop fighting among the clans; controlling the roads was an important part of...

||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...

||4 November 1951
|-
|||Troop Sergeant Major

Troop Sergeant Major

||9th Queen's Royal Lancers

9th Queen's Royal Lancers

||Indian Mutiny||17 January 1858
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||42nd Regiment of Foot

42nd Regiment of Foot

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

||Indian Mutiny||15 April 1858
|-
|||Drummer

Drummer

||57th Regiment of Foot||New Zealand Land Wars

New Zealand land wars

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

||2 October 1863
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Coldstream Guards

Coldstream Guards

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

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||26 October 1854
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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

||HMT Arab

HMT Arab

HM Trawler Arab was a trawler launched in 1936. At the outbreak of World War II, she became a naval trawler serving in the Royal Naval Patrol Service during World War II. Lieutenant Richard Been Stannard won the Victoria Cross while serving as her commander during the Namsos campaign in 1940...

||Second World War||28 April 1940 to
2 May 1940
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||2/43rd Battalion, AIF

2/43rd Battalion (Australia)

The 2/43rd Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. Raised in July 1940 in South Australia as part of the 24th Brigade, the unit saw service in the Middle East in 1941–42, taking part in the fighting at Tobruk and El Alamein before returning to Australia early in 1943. In 1943–44...

||Second World War||28 June 1945
|-
|||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||10–12 August 1918
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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

||HM Coastal Motor Boat 88||North Russia Relief Force

British Campaign in the Baltic 1918-19

||18 August 1919
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Seaforth Highlanders

Seaforth Highlanders

||First World War||22 February 1917
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||93rd Regiment of Foot

93rd Regiment of Foot

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

Private (rank)

||King's Shropshire Light Infantry||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|1 March 1945*
|-
|||Gunner

Gunner (rank)

||Royal Field Artillery

Royal Field Artillery

||First World War||21 March 1918
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Royal Fusiliers||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|30 November 1917*
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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

||19th Battalion, AIF||First World War||7 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...

||The Fort Garry Horse

The Fort Garry Horse

The Fort Garry Horse is a Canadian Army Reserve Armoured Regiment based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is currently part of Land Force Western Area's 38 Canadian Brigade Group.- History :...

||First World War||20 November 1917
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Manchester Regiment||First World War||8 March 1916
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Coldstream Guards

Coldstream Guards

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

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||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...

||HMS Pargust

HMS Pargust

HMS Pargust was a Royal Navy warship that was active during World War I.She was a Special Service Vessel used by the RN in anti-submarine warfare....

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

Sergeant

||Lancashire Fusiliers

Lancashire Fusiliers

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

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|25 April 1915*
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

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

||Fiji Infantry Regiment

Fiji Infantry Regiment

The Fiji Infantry Regiment is the main combat element of the Fijian military. It is a light infantry regiment consisting of six battalions, of which three are regular army and three are Territorial Force. The regiment was formed with the foundation of the Fijian armed forces in 1920, which came...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|23 June 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||North Russia Relief Force

British Campaign in the Baltic 1918-19

||10 August 1919
|-
|||Boatswain's Mate

Boatswain

||Naval Brigade

Naval Brigade

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||10 April 1855
|-
|||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||60th Rifles

King's Royal Rifle Corps

||Indian Mutiny||2 August 1857 to
13 September 1857
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Major||No. 582 Squadron RAF

No. 582 Squadron RAF

No. 582 Squadron RAF was a bomber pathfinder squadron of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.-History:The squadron was formed with Avro Lancasters on 1 April 1944 at RAF Little Staughton, Huntingdonshire, England, from 'C' Flight of 7 Squadron and 'C' Flight 156 Squadron. It was part of...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|23 February 1945*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Northumberland Fusiliers||First World War||19 April 1917
|-
|||Assistant surgeon||Royal Welch Fusiliers

Royal Welch Fusiliers

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

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||8 September 1855
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Royal Regiment of Artillery||Crimean War

Crimean War

||6 June 1855
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||7th Battalion, AIF||First World War||8–9 August 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...

||78th Battalion, CEF||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|11 August 1918*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)||First World War||28 September 1918
|-
|||Captain of the Forecastle

Petty Officer

||Naval Brigade

Naval Brigade

||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...

||Royal Regiment of Artillery||Crimean War

Crimean War

||29 September 1855
|-
|||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...

||20 November 1863
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Bengal Sappers and Miners||Indian Mutiny||16 September 1857
|-
|Thaman Gurung

Thaman Gurung

Thaman 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||5th Gurkha Rifles||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|10 November 1944*
|-
|||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....

||Bengal Artillery||Indian Mutiny||27 September 1857
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment)||First World War||30 November 1917
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||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||5 April 1858
|-
|||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. 9 Squadron RAF||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|1 January 1945}
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||60th Rifles

King's Royal Rifle Corps

||Indian Mutiny||9 July 1857
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||10th Light Horse Regiment

10th Light Horse Regiment (Australia)

The 10th Light Horse Regiment is a light cavalry regiment of the Australian Army. Tracing its lineage back to 1900, it predecessor units served during the Second Boer War and the First World War. Today consisting of only a single squadron, the regiment is part of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps...

||First World War||29–30 August 1915
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Major||Essex Scottish Regiment||Second World War||1 March 1945
|-
|||Sub-Lieutenant

Sub-Lieutenant

Sub-lieutenant is a military rank. It is normally a junior officer rank.In many navies, a sub-lieutenant is a naval commissioned or subordinate officer, ranking below a lieutenant. In the Royal Navy the rank of sub-lieutenant is equivalent to the rank of lieutenant in the British Army and of...

||Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve||First World War||25 April 1915
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

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

||First World War||14 September 1914
|-
|||Major||Bengal Horse Artillery||Indian Mutiny||9 July 1857
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||King's (Liverpool Regiment)||First World War||16 June 1915
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

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

||1st Canadian Parachute Battalion

1st Canadian Parachute Battalion

The 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion was formed in July 1942 during the Second World War; it served in North West Europe. Landing in Normandy on D Day, June 6, 1944 and in the airborne assault crossing of the River Rhine, Operation Varsity...

||Second World War||24 March 1945
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)||First World War||6 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...

||2nd Machine Gun Battalion, AIF||First World War||1 September 1918
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Gordon Highlanders||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||11 December 1899
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)||First World War||25 March 1918
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

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

||London Scottish Regiment||First World War||8 December 1917
|-
|||Colonel||2nd Bengal Native Infantry||Indian Mutiny||July 1857
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Otago Infantry Regiment||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|24 July 1918*
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||West Yorkshire Regiment||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||6 February 1901
|-
|||Squadron Leader

Squadron Leader

||No. 487 Squadron RNZAF

No. 487 Squadron RNZAF

No. 487 Squadron was a Royal New Zealand Air Force bomber squadron, formed under Article XV of the Empire Air Training Scheme. It served in the European theatre during World War II, under the operational command of the Royal Air Force.-History:No...

||Second World War||3 May 1943
|-
|||Major||Bengal Engineers||Bhutan War||30 April 1865
|-
|||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....

||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

||3 July 1855
|-
|||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. 200 Squadron RAF

No. 200 Squadron RAF

No. 200 Squadron of the Royal Air Force operated during the Second World War.It was formed in May 1941 from a section of No. 206 Squadron RAF, at Bircham Newton in Norfolk, operating Lockheed Hudson bombers...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|11 August 1943*
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Royal 22e Régiment

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...

||Second World War||14 December 1943
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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

||7th Battalion, AIF||First World War||9 August 1915
|-
|Tul Pun||Rifleman||6th Gurkha Rifles||Second World War||23 June 1944
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||Highland Light Infantry

Highland Light Infantry

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

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

Second Lieutenant

||Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment)||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|28 September 1915}
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Sergeant

||West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own)

West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own)

The West Yorkshire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army. In 1958 it amalgamated with The East Yorkshire Regiment to form The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|6–7 June 1944*
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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

||Royal Canadian Dragoons||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||7 November 1900
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||60th Rifles

King's Royal Rifle Corps

||Indian Mutiny||19 June 1857
|-
|||Temp. Lieutenant Colonel||Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)||Second World War||27 October 1942
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Worcestershire Regiment

Worcestershire Regiment

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

||First World War||3 July 1916
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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

||66th Bengal Native Infantry||Indian Mutiny||10 February 1858
|-
|Umrao Singh

Umrao Singh

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

||Havildar

Havildar

||81st West African Division||Second World War||15–16 December 1944
|-
|||Captain

Captain (Royal Navy)

||HMS River Clyde||First World War||22 April 1915
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||2nd Division, NZEF||Second World War||22–30 May 1941
14–15 July 1942
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

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

||Sherwood Foresters

Sherwood Foresters

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

||First World War||9 May 1915
|-
|||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;"|7 November 1914*
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

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||29 September 1918
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Devonshire Regiment||First World War||20 July 1916
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Lieutenant Colonel||Grenadier Guards

Grenadier Guards

||First World War||27 September 1918
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Royal Warwickshire Regiment||First World War||25 September 1915
|-
|||Temp. Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||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||14 October 1915
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Dorset Regiment

Dorset Regiment

The Dorset Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1958, the county regiment of Dorset. Until 1951 it was formally called The Dorsetshire Regiment, although usually known as "The Dorsets".-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:...

||20 October 1897
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||5th Punjab Cavalry||Second Afghan War||14 December 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...

||75th Regiment of Foot||Indian Mutiny||17 July 1857
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Tank Corps

Royal Tank Regiment

The Royal Tank Regiment is an armoured regiment of the British Army. It was formerly known as the Tank Corps and the Royal Tank Corps. It is part of the Royal Armoured Corps and is made up of two operational regiments, the 1st Royal Tank Regiment and the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|20 November 1917*
|-
|||Temp. Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Hampshire Regiment||Second World War||13 May 1944
|-
|||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...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|27 June 1942*
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||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:...

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

Lieutenant

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

||30th Regiment of Foot

30th (Cambridgeshire) Regiment of Foot

The 30th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1702 and amalgamated into The East Lancashire Regiment in 1881.-Predecessor regiment:...

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||5 November 1854
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||4th Gurkha Rifles||Third Somaliland Expedition||22 April 1903
|-
|||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

||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...

||60th Rifles

King's Royal Rifle Corps

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

Private (rank)

||King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|10 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...

||25th Bombay Light Infantry

125th Napier's Rifles

The 125th Napier's Rifles was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. Its earlier names include:1st Extra Battalion Bombay Native Infantry, The 25th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry and The 25th Bombay Rifles...

||Indian Mutiny||20 June 1858
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||49th Regiment of Foot

Royal Berkshire Regiment

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||5 November 1854
|-
|||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 Upholder

HMS Upholder (P37)

HMS Upholder was a Royal Navy U-class submarine built by Vickers-Armstrong at Barrow-in-Furness. She was laid down on 30 October 1939, launched on 8 July 1940 by Mrs. Doris Thompson, wife of a director of the builders. The submarine was commissioned on 31 October 1940...

||Second World War||24 May 1941
|-
|||Captain

Captain (Royal Navy)

||HMS Hardy

HMS Hardy (1936)

|HMS Hardy was the flotilla leader for the H-class destroyers, built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 the ship spent considerable time in Spanish waters, enforcing the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides of the conflict...

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|10 April 1940*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry was a regiment of the British Army. It officially existed from 1881 to 1968, but its predecessors go back to 1755. The regiment's traditions and history are now maintained by The Rifles.-The 51st Foot:...

||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||26 June 1900
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

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

Sergeant

||No. 75 Squadron RAF

No. 75 Squadron RAF

No. 75 Squadron of the Royal Air Force operated as a bomber unit in World War II, before being transferred to the Royal New Zealand Air Force in 1945.-First World War, Royal Flying Corps, Home Defence Squadron :...

||Second World War||7 July 1941
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||8th King's Royal Irish Hussars

8th King's Royal Irish Hussars

||Indian Mutiny||17 June 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....

||Seaforth Highlanders

Seaforth Highlanders

||First World War||6 April 1916
|-
|||Lance-Sergeant||Royal Welsh Fusiliers||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|18 September 1918*
|-
|||Major||32nd Battalion, AIF

32nd Battalion (Australia)

The 32nd Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. It was first raised in 1915 as part of the First Australian Imperial Force and was initially made up of personnel from South Australia and Western Australia...

||First World War||29 September 1918 to
1 October 1918
|-
|||Flight Sub-Lieutenant||No. 1 Squadron RNAS

No. 201 Squadron RAF

No. 201 Squadron of the Royal Air Force, until March 2010, operated the Nimrod MR2, based at RAF Kinloss, Moray. It is the only squadron affiliated with Guernsey, in the Channel Islands. This affiliation started in 1935 and is commemorated in the museum on Castle Cornet. Its history goes even...

||First World War||7 June 1915
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Bedfordshire Regiment||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|1 May 1915*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||18th Regiment of Foot

80th Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers)

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

||Zulu War||22 January 1879
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Major||Corps of Royal Engineers||First World War||4 November 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...

||Welch Regiment

Welch Regiment

The Welch Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1969.-History:It was formed as the Welsh Regiment during the Childers Reforms of 1881, by the amalgamation of the 41st Regiment of Foot and the 69th Regiment of Foot...

||Second World War||16 August 1944
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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

||3rd Bombay European Regiment

109th Regiment of Foot (Bombay Infantry)

The 109th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1862 to 1881, when it was amalgamated into The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment ....

||Indian Mutiny||14 November 1857
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Lieutenant Colonel||King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|28 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...

||Corps of Royal Engineers||Mohmand Campaign

Mohmand Campaign

||16 September 1897
|-
|||Skipper||Royal Naval Reserve

Royal Naval Reserve

||First World War||15 May 1917
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||Royal Welsh Fusiliers||First World War||26 August 1918
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Essex Regiment

Essex Regiment

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|28 June 1917*
|-
|||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....

||43rd Battalion, AIF||First World War||2 September 1918
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment)||First World War||29 April 1917
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Royal Sussex Regiment

Royal Sussex Regiment

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

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

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||No. 8 Squadron RFC||First World War||12 August 1918
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Lieutenant Colonel||North Irish Horse

North Irish Horse

The North Irish Horse is a yeomanry unit of the British Territorial Army raised in the northern counties of Ireland in the aftermath of the Second Boer War...

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

Lieutenant

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

||Green Howards||Second World War||3 March 1945
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

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

Crimean War

||12 October 1854
|-
|||Warrant Officer Class II

Warrant Officer (United Kingdom)

||Australian Army Training Team Vietnam

Australian Army Training Team Vietnam

||Vietnam War

Vietnam War

||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|13 November 1965*
|-
|||Major||9th Gurkha Rifles||First World War||23 February 1917
|-
|||Major||7th Hariana Lancers

7th Hariana Lancers

- Origin :The regiment began as Bengal irregular cavalry raised in Meerut and Cawnpore by Captain Liptrott.Like all regiments of the Indian Army, the 7th Cavalry underwent many name changes in the various reorganisations...

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|12–13 April 1915*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||1st Punjab Cavalry||Indian Mutiny||3 April 1858,
2 May 1858
|-
|||Surgeon Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Indian Medical Service

Indian Medical Service

||Chitral Expedition

Chitral Expedition

The Chitral Expedition was a military expedition in 1895 sent by the British authorities to relieve the fort at Chitral which was under siege after a local coup.-Background to the conflict:Chitral was at the extreme north west of British India...

||3 March 1895
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||South Wales Borderers||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|19 May 1917*
|-
|||Temp. Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Green Howards||First World War||21 September 1916 to
1 October 1916
|-
|||Lieutenant Commander

Lieutenant Commander

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

||HMS E14

HMS E14

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

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|28 January 1918*
|-
|||Major||92nd Regiment of Foot

92nd Regiment of Foot

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

||Second Afghan War||6 October 1879
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)||First World War||7 March 1917
|-
|||Temp. Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||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||18 September 1918
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||King's (Shropshire Light Infantry)||First World War||10 March 1918
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Coldstream Guards

Coldstream Guards

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

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

Sergeant

||12th Battalion, AIF||First World War||9–10 April 1917
|-
|||Lance Corporal

Lance Corporal

||Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry

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

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

Private (rank)

||Manchester Regiment||First World War||20 October 1918
|-
|||Bombardier

Bombardier (rank)

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

||Royal Marine Artillery||Crimean War

Crimean War

||7 June 1855
|-
|||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||5 July 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...

||HMS Li Wo||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|14 February 1942*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||24th Regiment of Foot||Zulu War||22–23 January 1879
|-
|||Company Sergeant Major

Company Sergeant Major

||South Wales Borderers||First World War||7–8 October 1918
|-
|||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....

||Royal Naval Reserve

Royal Naval Reserve

||First World War||7 June 1917
|-
|||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 River Clyde||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|25 April 1915*
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||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
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

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

Captain (Royal Navy)

||HMS Hecla||Sudan Campaign

Mahdist War

||29 February 1884
|-
|||Acting

Acting (rank)

Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||East Surrey Regiment

East Surrey Regiment

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

||Second World War||11–15 August 1940
|-
|||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 ...

||First World War||14 September 1914
|-
|||Corporal

Corporal

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

||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||13 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...

||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...

||Indian Mutiny||19 October 1858
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||20th Bombay Native Infantry||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...

||9 August 1856
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Northumberland Fusiliers||First World War||28 October 1918
|-
|||Lance-Sergeant||Prince Consort's Own (Rifle Brigade)||First World War||11 April 1918
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||Irish Guards

Irish Guards

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

Sergeant

||17th Lancers

17th Lancers

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

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||26 October 1854
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Prince Consort's Own (Rifle Brigade)||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|30 July 1915*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||48th Battalion, AIF

48th Battalion (Australia)

The 48th Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army. It was originally raised in 1916 for service during World War I and took part in the fighting in the trenches of the Western Front in France and Belgium, before being disbanded in early 1919....

||First World War||18 September 1918
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Queen Victoria's Rifles||First World War||20–21 April 1915
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||77th Regiment of Foot

77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot

The 77th Regiment of Foot was a line regiment of the British Army . In 1881 it was united with the 57th Regiment of Foot to form The Middlesex Regiment ....

||Crimean War

Crimean War

||22 March 1855
19 April 1855
|-
|||Company Sergeant Major

Company Sergeant 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....

||Second World War||25 September 1943
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Corps of Royal Engineers||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|23 August 1914
14 September 1914}
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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

||2nd Regiment of Foot||Kano-Sokoto Expedition||26 February 1903
|-
|||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||25–26 August 1914
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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

||1st Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||1 September 1900
|-
|||Major||King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry)||First World War||26 August 1914
|-
|Yeshwant Ghadge

Yeshwant Ghadge

Yeshwant Ghadge 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:...

||Naik

Naik (military rank)

||Maratha Light Infantry

Maratha Light Infantry

The Maratha Light Infantry is a light infantry regiment of the Indian Army. It was formed as the 103rd Maharattas in 1768, making it the most senior light infantry regiment of the Army....

||Second World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|10 July 1944*
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Durham Light Infantry

Durham Light Infantry

||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|7 July 1917*
|-
|||Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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

||Northumberland Fusiliers||First World War||15 June 1918
|-
|||Sergeant Major||Cape Police||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||13 August 1901
|-
|||Second Lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

||Hertfordshire Regiment||First World War||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|18 September 1918*
|-
|||Private

Private (rank)

||87th Battalion, CEF

87th Battalion, CEF

The 87th Battalion, CEF was a unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. Based in Montreal, Quebec, the unit began recruiting in September 1915 in Montreal, the surrounding districts, and also in mining districts elsewhere in the province...

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

Private (rank)

||Durham Light Infantry

Durham Light Infantry

||First World War||25–31 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...

||Naval Brigade

Naval Brigade

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

Private (rank)

||East Lancashire Regiment

East Lancashire Regiment

||First World War||22 December 1915
|-
|||Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

||Gordon Highlanders||Second Boer War

Second Boer War

||11 July 1900
|-
|||Sergeant

Sergeant

||5th Battalion, CEF||First World War||9 August 1918
|-
|}

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