List of Victoria Cross recipients by campaign

Victoria Cross

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

(VC) is a military decoration

Military decoration

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

Commonwealth of Nations

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countries and previous British Empire

British Empire

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

Military rank

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

Victoria of the United Kingdom

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issued a warrant

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under the Royal sign-manual

Royal sign-manual

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on 29 January 1856 that was gazetted

London Gazette

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

Medal bar

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, which is a medal for two actions; Noel Chavasse

Noel Godfrey Chavasse

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

, Arthur Martin-Leake

Arthur Martin-Leake

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

and Charles Upham

Charles Upham

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

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

Second Boer War

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

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

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

Siege of Lucknow

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

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

Sikandar Bagh

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, during the Second Relief of Lucknow. The largest number awarded to one unit during a single action was 7, to the 2nd/24th Foot, for the defence of Rorke's Drift

Rorke's Drift

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(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

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, 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; Willie Apiata received the Victoria Cross for New Zealand on 26 July 2007; on 16 January 2009 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...

, and on 23 January 2011 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....

, were awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia. As these are separate medals, they are not included in this list.

Recipients

Recipients	Unit	Campaign	Dates	Location
000 a111 Crimean War recipients‡	000 a—	Crimean WarCrimean 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...	1854–18561854–1856	000 a—
	02020th 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...	1856-08-099 August 1856	Bushire, Persia
	0033rd Bombay Light Cavalry	Anglo-Persian War Anglo-Persian War The Anglo-Persian War lasted between November 1, 1856 and April 4, 1857, and was fought between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Persia . In the war, the British opposed an attempt by Persia to reacquire the city of Herat...	1857-02-088 February 1857	Khoosh-ab, Persia
	0033rd Bombay Light Cavalry	Anglo-Persian War Anglo-Persian War The Anglo-Persian War lasted between November 1, 1856 and April 4, 1857, and was fought between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Persia . In the war, the British opposed an attempt by Persia to reacquire the city of Herat...	1858-02-078 February 1857	Khoosh-ab, Persia
000.1182 Indian Mutiny recipients‡	000.1—	Indian MutinyIndian Mutiny	18581857–1859	000.1—
	06767th Regiment of Foot 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot The 67th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1758 and amalgamated into The Hampshire Regiment in 1881....	Third China War	1860-08-2121 August 1860	Taku Forts Taku Forts The Dagu Forts , also called the Peiho Forts are forts located by the Hai River estuary, in Tanggu District, Tianjin municipality, in northeastern China. They are located 60 km southeast of the Tianjin urban center.-History:The first fort was built during the reign of the Ming Jiajing... , China China Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
	06767th Regiment of Foot 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot The 67th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1758 and amalgamated into The Hampshire Regiment in 1881....	Third China War	1860-08-2121 August 1860	Taku Forts Taku Forts The Dagu Forts , also called the Peiho Forts are forts located by the Hai River estuary, in Tanggu District, Tianjin municipality, in northeastern China. They are located 60 km southeast of the Tianjin urban center.-History:The first fort was built during the reign of the Ming Jiajing... , China China Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
	06767th Regiment of Foot 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot The 67th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1758 and amalgamated into The Hampshire Regiment in 1881....	Third China War	1860-08-2121 August 1860	Taku Forts Taku Forts The Dagu Forts , also called the Peiho Forts are forts located by the Hai River estuary, in Tanggu District, Tianjin municipality, in northeastern China. They are located 60 km southeast of the Tianjin urban center.-History:The first fort was built during the reign of the Ming Jiajing... , China China Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
	06767th Regiment of Foot 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot The 67th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1758 and amalgamated into The Hampshire Regiment in 1881....	Third China War	1860-08-2121 August 1860	Taku Forts Taku Forts The Dagu Forts , also called the Peiho Forts are forts located by the Hai River estuary, in Tanggu District, Tianjin municipality, in northeastern China. They are located 60 km southeast of the Tianjin urban center.-History:The first fort was built during the reign of the Ming Jiajing... , China China Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
	06767th Regiment of Foot 67th (South Hampshire) Regiment of Foot The 67th Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1758 and amalgamated into The Hampshire Regiment in 1881....	Third China War	1860-08-2121 August 1860	Taku Forts Taku Forts The Dagu Forts , also called the Peiho Forts are forts located by the Hai River estuary, in Tanggu District, Tianjin municipality, in northeastern China. They are located 60 km southeast of the Tianjin urban center.-History:The first fort was built during the reign of the Ming Jiajing... , China China Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
	04444th Regiment of Foot	Third China War	1860-08-2121 August 1860	Taku Forts Taku Forts The Dagu Forts , also called the Peiho Forts are forts located by the Hai River estuary, in Tanggu District, Tianjin municipality, in northeastern China. They are located 60 km southeast of the Tianjin urban center.-History:The first fort was built during the reign of the Ming Jiajing... , China China Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
	04444th Regiment of Foot	Third China War	1860-08-2121 August 1860	Taku Forts Taku Forts The Dagu Forts , also called the Peiho Forts are forts located by the Hai River estuary, in Tanggu District, Tianjin municipality, in northeastern China. They are located 60 km southeast of the Tianjin urban center.-History:The first fort was built during the reign of the Ming Jiajing... , China China Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
000.1515 New Zealand Land Wars recipients‡	000.15—	New Zealand Land WarsNew 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...	1860–18651860–1865	000.15—
	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...	Taiping Rebellion Taiping Rebellion The Taiping Rebellion was a widespread civil war in southern China from 1850 to 1864, led by heterodox Christian convert Hong Xiuquan, who, having received visions, maintained that he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ, against the ruling Manchu-led Qing Dynasty...	1862-10-099 October 1862	Fenghua Fenghua Fenghua is a county-level city in the north of Zhejiang province, China. It is under the jurisdiction of Ningbo prefecture-level city. The city and its administrative hinterlands has a population of over 480,000.... , China China Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
	0044th Bengal European Regiment 4th Bengal European Regiment The 4th Bengal European Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British East India Company, created in 1858 and disbanded in 1867.The regiment was raised in Bengal by the East India Company in 1858, for service in the Indian Mutiny; the "European" in the name indicated that it was manned primarily...	Umbeyla Campaign Umbeyla Campaign The Umbeyla Campaign was one of numerous expeditions led by British forces in the North-West Frontier Province; this campaign was against local Hindustani Pashtuns and Bunerwals of British India. The local Pashtuns were vehemently opposed to British colonial rule and frequently attacked British...	1863-10-3030 October 1863	Crag Picquet, India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
	0044th 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...	1863-10-3030 October 1863	Crag Picquet, India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
	HMS Eurayalus HMS Euryalus (1853) HMS Euryalus was a fourth-rate wooden-hulled screw frigate of the Royal Navy, with a 400HP steam engine that could make over 12 knots. She was launched at Chatham in 1853, was 212 feet long, displaced 3125 tons and had a complement of 515...	Bombardment of Shimonoseki Bombardment of Shimonoseki The Battles for Shimonoseki refers to a series of military engagements in 1863 and 1864, fought to control Shimonoseki Straits by joint naval forces from the Great Britain, France, the Netherlands and the United States, against the Japanese feudal domain of Chōshū, which took place off and on the...	1864-09-066 September 1864	Kanmon Straits Kanmon Straits The Kanmon Straits or the Straits of Shimonoseki is the stretch of water separating two of Japan's four main islands. On the Honshū side of the water is Shimonoseki and on the Kyūshū side is Kitakyūshū, whose former city and present ward, Moji , gave the strait its "mon"... , Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
	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...	1864-09-066 September 1864	Kanmon Straits Kanmon Straits The Kanmon Straits or the Straits of Shimonoseki is the stretch of water separating two of Japan's four main islands. On the Honshū side of the water is Shimonoseki and on the Kyūshū side is Kitakyūshū, whose former city and present ward, Moji , gave the strait its "mon"... , Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
	HMS Eurayalus HMS Euryalus (1853) HMS Euryalus was a fourth-rate wooden-hulled screw frigate of the Royal Navy, with a 400HP steam engine that could make over 12 knots. She was launched at Chatham in 1853, was 212 feet long, displaced 3125 tons and had a complement of 515...	Bombardment of Shimonoseki Bombardment of Shimonoseki The Battles for Shimonoseki refers to a series of military engagements in 1863 and 1864, fought to control Shimonoseki Straits by joint naval forces from the Great Britain, France, the Netherlands and the United States, against the Japanese feudal domain of Chōshū, which took place off and on the...	1864-09-066 September 1864	Kanmon Straits Kanmon Straits The Kanmon Straits or the Straits of Shimonoseki is the stretch of water separating two of Japan's four main islands. On the Honshū side of the water is Shimonoseki and on the Kyūshū side is Kitakyūshū, whose former city and present ward, Moji , gave the strait its "mon"... , Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
	Bengal Engineers	Bhutan War	1865-04-3030 April 1865	Dewan-Giri, India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
	Bengal Engineers	Bhutan War	1865-04-3030 April 1865	Dewan-Giri, India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
	Rifle Brigade

}||9 June 1866||Danville, Quebec

Danville, Quebec

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|||West India Regiment

West India Regiment

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

||The Gambia

The Gambia

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||30 June 1866||Tubabecelong, Gambia|
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|||24th Regiment of Foot||Andaman Islands Expedition

Andaman Islands Expedition

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

||7 May 1867||Little Andaman

Little Andaman

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

Andaman Islands Expedition

||7 May 1867||Little Andaman

Little Andaman

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

Andaman Islands Expedition

||7 May 1867||Little Andaman

Little Andaman

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

Andaman Islands Expedition

||7 May 1867||Little Andaman

Little Andaman

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

Andaman Islands Expedition

||7 May 1867||Little Andaman

Little Andaman

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|||33rd Regiment of Foot||Abyssinian War||13 April 1868||Battle of Magdala

Battle of Magdala

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, Abyssinia

Ethiopia

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|||33rd Regiment of Foot||Abyssinian War||13 April 1868||Battle of Magdala

Battle of Magdala

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, Abyssinia

Ethiopia

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|||2nd Gurkha Rifles||Looshai Expedition||4 January 1872||Lalgnoora, India

India

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|||24th Regiment of Foot||First Ashanti Expedition||1873–1874||Becquah, Ashanti
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|||42nd Regiment of Foot

42nd Regiment of Foot

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||First Ashanti Expedition||21 January 1874||Amoaful, Ashanti
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|||Corps of Royal Engineers||First Ashanti Expedition||4 February 1874||Ordashu, Ashanti
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|||Bengal Staff Corps||Perak War

Perak War

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||20 December 1875||Malaya

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, Malaysia
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|||Bengal Staff Corps||Baluchistan

History of Balochistan

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||26 July 1877||Quetta

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, India

India

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|||88th Regiment of Foot

88th Regiment of Foot

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||9th Cape Frontier War||29 December 1877||King William's Town

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, Cape Colony

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|||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

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||8 April 1879||Morosi's Mountain

Morosi's Mountain

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, South Africa

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|||Cape Mounted Riflemen

Cape Mounted Riflemen

||Basuto War

Gun War

||8 April 1879||Morosi's Mountain

Morosi's Mountain

, South Africa

South Africa

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|||Cape Mounted Riflemen

Cape Mounted Riflemen

||Basuto War

Gun War

||5 June 1879||Morosi's Mountain

Morosi's Mountain

, South Africa

South Africa

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|||Connaught Rangers||Basuto War

Gun War

||28 November 1879||Sekukuni's Town, South Africa

South Africa

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|||Connaught Rangers||Basuto War

Gun War

||28 November 1879||Sekukuni's Town, South Africa

South Africa

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|||1st Cape Mounted Yeomanry||Basuto War

Gun War

||14 January 1881||Tweefontein, South Africa

South Africa

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|||Bengal Staff Corps||Second Naga Hills Expedition||22 November 1879||Konama, India

India

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|||Nourse's Horse||First Boer War

First Boer War

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||16 January 1881||Elandsfontein, South Africa

South Africa

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|||Connaught Rangers||First Boer War

First Boer War

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||16 January 1881||Elandsfontein, South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

|-
|||1st King's Dragoon Guards

1st King's Dragoon Guards

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

||First Boer War

First Boer War

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

||28 January 1881||Laing's Nek

Laing's Nek

Laing's Nek, or Lang's Nek is a pass through the Drakensberg, South Africa, immediately north of Majuba, at at an elevation of 5400 to . It is the lowest part of a ridge which slopes from Majuba to the Buffalo River, and before the opening of the railway in 1891 the road over the nek was the main...

, South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

|-
|||Northamptonshire Regiment

Northamptonshire Regiment

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

||First Boer War

First Boer War

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

||28 January 1881||Laing's Nek

Laing's Nek

, South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

|-
|||Northamptonshire Regiment

Northamptonshire Regiment

||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||Wesselstroom, South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

|-
|||Royal Army Medical Corps

Royal Army Medical Corps

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

||First Boer War

First Boer War

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

||27 February 1881||Majubu Hill

Battle of Majuba Hill

The Battle of Majuba Hill on 27 February 1881 was the main battle of the First Boer War. It was a resounding victory for the Boers. Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley occupied the summit of the hill on the night of February 26–27, 1881. His motive for occupying the hill remains unclear...

, South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

|-
|||HMS Alexandra

HMS Alexandra (1875)

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

||Occupation of Egypt||11 July 1882||Alexandria

Alexandria

Alexandria is the second-largest city of Egypt, with a population of 4.1 million, extending about along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the north central part of the country; it is also the largest city lying directly on the Mediterranean coast. It is Egypt's largest seaport, serving...

, Egypt

Egypt

Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

|-
|||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...

||Occupation of Egypt||5 August 1882||Kafr Dowar, Egypt

Egypt

|-
|||Highland Light Infantry

Highland Light Infantry

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

||Occupation of Egypt||13 September 1882||Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt

Egypt

|-
|||19th Hussars||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...

||29 February 1884||El Teb, Sudan

Sudan

Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...

|-
|||HMS Hecla||Sudan Campaign

Mahdist War

||29 February 1884||El Teb, Sudan

Sudan

|-
|||Black Watch

Black Watch

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

||Sudan Campaign

Mahdist War

||13 March 1884||Tamai

Battle of Tamai

The Battle of Tamai took place on March 13, 1884 between a British force under Sir Gerald Graham and a Mahdist Sudanese army led by Osman Digna....

, Sudan

Sudan

|-
|||King's Royal Rifle Corps

King's Royal Rifle Corps

||Sudan Campaign

Mahdist War

||13 March 1884||Tamai

Battle of Tamai

The Battle of Tamai took place on March 13, 1884 between a British force under Sir Gerald Graham and a Mahdist Sudanese army led by Osman Digna....

, Sudan

Sudan

|-
|||Royal Regiment of Artillery||Sudan Campaign

Mahdist War

||17 January 1885||Abu Klea, Sudan

Sudan

|-
|||21st Lancers

21st Lancers

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

||Sudan Campaign

Mahdist War

||2 September 1898||Omdurman

Battle of Omdurman

At the Battle of Omdurman , an army commanded by the British Gen. Sir Herbert Kitchener defeated the army of Abdullah al-Taashi, the successor to the self-proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad...

, Sudan

Sudan

|-
|||21st Lancers

21st Lancers

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

||Sudan Campaign

Mahdist War

||2 September 1898||Omdurman

Battle of Omdurman

At the Battle of Omdurman , an army commanded by the British Gen. Sir Herbert Kitchener defeated the army of Abdullah al-Taashi, the successor to the self-proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad...

, Sudan

Sudan

|-
|||21st Lancers

21st Lancers

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

||Sudan Campaign

Mahdist War

||2 September 1898||Omdurman

Battle of Omdurman

At the Battle of Omdurman , an army commanded by the British Gen. Sir Herbert Kitchener defeated the army of Abdullah al-Taashi, the successor to the self-proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad...

, Sudan

Sudan

|-
|||2nd Dragoon Guards||Sudan Campaign

Mahdist War

||2 September 1898||Omdurman

Battle of Omdurman

At the Battle of Omdurman , an army commanded by the British Gen. Sir Herbert Kitchener defeated the army of Abdullah al-Taashi, the successor to the self-proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad...

, Sudan

Sudan

|-
|||Highland Light Infantry

Highland Light Infantry

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

||Sudan Campaign

Mahdist War

||22 September 1898||Gedarif, Sudan

Sudan

|-
|||Bombay Medical Service||British rule in Burma

British rule in Burma

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

||1 January 1889||Karenni

Karenni

Red Karen also known as Karenni, is a subgroup of the Karen people, a Sino-Tibetan people living mostly in Kayah State of Burma....

, Burma
|-
|||Royal Army Medical Corps

Royal Army Medical Corps

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

||British rule in Burma

British rule in Burma

||4 May 1889||Tartan, Burma
|-
|||Indian Staff Corps

Indian Staff Corps

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

||Manipur Expedition||21 March 1891 to
9 April 1891||Thobal, Burma
|-
|||Corps of Royal Engineers||Hunza-Naga Campaign

Hunza-Naga Campaign

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

||2 December 1891||Nilt Fort, India

India

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

Hunza-Naga Campaign

||2 December 1891||Nilt Fort, India

India

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

Hunza-Naga Campaign

||20 December 1891||Nilt Fort, India

India

|-
|||West India Regiment

West India Regiment

||The Gambia

The Gambia

||13 March 1892||Toniataba, Gambia
|-
|||Royal Army Medical Corps

Royal Army Medical Corps

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

||Kachin Hills Expedition

Kachin Hills

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

||6 January 1893||Fort Sima, Burma
|-
|||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...

||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||Chitral Fort

Chitral

Chitral or Chetrar , translated as field in the native language Khowar, is the capital of the Chitral District, situated on the western bank of the Kunar River , in Pakistan. The town is at the foot of Tirich Mir, the highest peak of the Hindu Kush, high...

, India

India

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

Bulawayo

Bulawayo is the second largest city in Zimbabwe after the capital Harare, with an estimated population in 2010 of 2,000,000. It is located in Matabeleland, 439 km southwest of Harare, and is now treated as a separate provincial area from Matabeleland...

, Rhodesia

Rhodesia

Rhodesia , officially the Republic of Rhodesia from 1970, was an unrecognised state located in southern Africa that existed between 1965 and 1979 following its Unilateral Declaration of Independence from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965...

|-
|||Bulawayo Field Force||Matabeleland Rebellion||22 April 1896||Umguza

Umguza

Umguza is a district in Matabeleland North province in Zimbabwe....

, Rhodesia

Rhodesia

|-
|||Mashonaland Mounted Police||Mashona Rebellion||19 June 1896||Salisbury

Harare

Harare before 1982 known as Salisbury) is the largest city and capital of Zimbabwe. It has an estimated population of 1,600,000, with 2,800,000 in its metropolitan area . Administratively, Harare is an independent city equivalent to a province. It is Zimbabwe's largest city and its...

, Rhodesia

Rhodesia

|-
|||22nd Punjab Infantry

22nd Punjabis

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

||Siege of Malakand

Siege of Malakand

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

||26 July 1897||Malakand

Malakand Pass

The Malakand Pass is a mountain pass in Malakand District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.The pass road begins at Dargai. The road across the pass is in good condition, but is always crowded with a continuous stream of trucks. From a viewpoint about one kilometre before the top of the pass, one can...

, India

India

|-
|||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||Bilot, India

India

|-
|||Corps of Royal Engineers||Mohmand Campaign

Mohmand Campaign

||16 September 1897||Bilot, India

India

|-
|||Corps of Royal Engineers||Mohmand Campaign

Mohmand Campaign

||16 September 1897||Bilot, India

India

|-
|||Corps of Guides

Corps of Guides (British India)

The Corps of Guides was a regiment of the British Indian Army which served in the North West Frontier and had a unique composition of being part infantry and part cavalry.-History:...

||Tirah Campaign

Tirah Campaign

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

||17 August 1897||Swat, India

India

|-
|||Corps of Guides

Corps of Guides (British India)

The Corps of Guides was a regiment of the British Indian Army which served in the North West Frontier and had a unique composition of being part infantry and part cavalry.-History:...

||Tirah Campaign

Tirah Campaign

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

||17 August 1897||Swat, India

India

|-
|||16th Lancers||Tirah Campaign

Tirah Campaign

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

||17 August 1897||Swat, India

India

|-
|||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||Dargai

Dargai

Dargai is an administrative area of the Malakand District in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, located on the main highway from Peshawar to Swat, Dir and Chitral...

, India

India

|-
|||Gordon Highlanders||Tirah Campaign

Tirah Campaign

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

||20 October 1897||Dargai

Dargai

Dargai is an administrative area of the Malakand District in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, located on the main highway from Peshawar to Swat, Dir and Chitral...

, India

India

|-
|||Gordon Highlanders||Tirah Campaign

Tirah Campaign

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

||20 October 1897||Dargai

Dargai

Dargai is an administrative area of the Malakand District in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, located on the main highway from Peshawar to Swat, Dir and Chitral...

, India

India

|-
|||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||Dargai

Dargai

Dargai is an administrative area of the Malakand District in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, located on the main highway from Peshawar to Swat, Dir and Chitral...

, India

India

|-
|||HMS Hazard

HMS Hazard (1894)

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

||Occupation of Crete||6 September 1898||Crete

Crete

Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It forms a significant part of the economy and cultural heritage of Greece while retaining its own local cultural traits...

, Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

|-
|||Seaforth Highlanders

Seaforth Highlanders

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

||Third Ashanti Expedition||6 June 1900||Dompoassi, Ashanti
|-
|||Indian Staff Corps

Indian Staff Corps

||Third Ashanti Expedition||30 September 1900||Obassa, Ashanti
|-
|||Royal Marine Light Infantry||Boxer Rising||24 June 1900||Peking, China

China

Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

|-
|||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...

||Boxer Rising||13 July 1900||China

China

Second Boer War

|1899–1902
|align="center"|—
|-
|||King's African Rifles

King's African Rifles

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

||Second Somaliland Expedition||6 October 1902||Erego, Somaliland

Somaliland

Somaliland is an unrecognised self-declared sovereign state that is internationally recognised as an autonomous region of Somalia. The government of Somaliland regards itself as the successor state to the British Somaliland protectorate, which was independent for a few days in 1960 as the State of...

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

Somaliland

|-
|||Rifle Brigade||Third Somaliland Expedition||22 April 1903||Daratoleh, Somaliland

Somaliland

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

Somaliland

|-
|||Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

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

||Fourth Somaliland Expedition||19 December 1903||Jidballi, Somaliland

Somaliland

|-
|||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||Jidballi, Somaliland

Somaliland

|-
|||2nd Regiment of Foot||Kano-Sokoto Expedition||26 February 1903||Northern Nigeria

Northern Nigeria

Northern Nigeria is a geographical region of Nigeria. It is more arid and less densely populated than the south. The people are largely Muslim, and many are Hausa...

|-
|||8th Gurkha Rifles||Armed Mission to Tibet||6 July 1904||Gyantse Fortress
|- style="background:#faecc8"
|627 First World War recipients‡
|align="center"|—
|First World War
|1914–1918
|align="center"|—
|-
|||HM Coastal Motor Boat 4||North Russia Relief Force

British Campaign in the Baltic 1918-19

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

||17 June 1919||Kronstadt

Kronstadt

Kronstadt , also spelled Kronshtadt, Cronstadt |crown]]" and Stadt for "city"); is a municipal town in Kronshtadtsky District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia, located on Kotlin Island, west of Saint Petersburg proper near the head of the Gulf of Finland. Population: It is also...

, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

|-
|||Royal Fusiliers||North Russia Relief Force

British Campaign in the Baltic 1918-19

||10 August 1919||Sheika River, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

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

British Campaign in the Baltic 1918-19

||18 August 1919||Kronstadt

Kronstadt

, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

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

British Campaign in the Baltic 1918-19

||18 August 1919||Kronstadt

Kronstadt

, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

|-
|||Royal Fusiliers||North Russia Relief Force

British Campaign in the Baltic 1918-19

||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|29 August 1919*||Emtsa, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

|-
|||Indian Medical Service

Indian Medical Service

||Waziristan Campaign

Waziristan campaign 1919–1920

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

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

Khajuri

Khajuri is a village in the southern state of Karnataka, India. It is located in the Aland taluk of Gulbarga district in Karnataka.-Demographics:As of 2001 India census, Khajuri had a population of 6273 with 3162 males and 3111 females....

, Waziristan

Waziristan

Waziristan is a mountainous region near the Northwest of Pakistan, bordering Afghanistan and covering some 11,585 km² . The area is entirely populated by ethnic Pashtuns . The language spoken in the valley is Pashto/Pakhto...

|-
|||39th Garhwal Rifles

39th Garhwal Rifles

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

||Waziristan Campaign

Waziristan campaign 1919–1920

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

||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|2 January 1920*||Kot Kai, Waziristan

Waziristan

|-
|||28th Punjab Regiment||Waziristan Campaign

Waziristan campaign 1919–1920

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

||10 April 1921||Haidari Kach, Waziristan

Waziristan

|-
|||Manchester Regiment||Arab Revolt

Iraqi revolt against the British

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

||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|24 July 1920*||Hillah, Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia is a toponym for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, largely corresponding to modern-day Iraq, northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey and southwestern Iran.Widely considered to be the cradle of civilization, Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer and the...

|-
|||12th Frontier Force Regiment

12th Frontier Force Regiment

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

||Second Mohmand Campaign||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|29 September 1935*||Mamund Valley, India

India

|- style="background:#faecc8"
|181 Second World War recipients‡
|align="center"|—
|Second World War
|1939–1945
|align="center"|—
|-
|||Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

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

||Korean War

Korean War

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

||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|23 September 1950*||Songju, Korea

Korea

Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...

|-
|||Gloucestershire Regiment||Korean War

Korean War

||22–23 April 1951||Imjin River

Imjin River

The Imjin River is a river of North and South Korea. It flows from North to South, crossing the Demilitarized Zone and joining the Han River downstream of Seoul, very near the Yellow Sea.- History :...

, Korea

Korea

|-
|||Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

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

||Korean War

Korean War

||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|22–23 April 1951*||Imjin River

Imjin River

, Korea

Korea

|-
|||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

||4 November 1951||Hill 217, Korea

Korea

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

Sarawak

Sarawak is one of two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo. Known as Bumi Kenyalang , Sarawak is situated on the north-west of the island. It is the largest state in Malaysia followed by Sabah, the second largest state located to the North- East.The administrative capital is Kuching, which...

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Borneo

Borneo is the third largest island in the world and is located north of Java Island, Indonesia, at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia....

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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...

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Vietnam War

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

||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|13 November 1965*||Tra Bong

Tra Bong

Trà Bồng is a district of Quang Ngai province in the South Central Coastal region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 28,758. The district covers an area of 419 km². The district capital lies at Tra Xuan.-References:...

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Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

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Australian Army Training Team Vietnam

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Vietnam War

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

Huong Tra

Hương Trà is a rural district of Thua Thien-Huế province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam. As of 2003 the district had a population of 114,985. The district covers an area of 521 km²...

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Vietnam

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Australian Army Training Team Vietnam

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Vietnam War

||6–11 May 1969||Kontum Provence, Vietnam

Vietnam

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Australian Army Training Team Vietnam

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Vietnam War

||24 May 1969||Ben Het, Vietnam

Vietnam

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Falklands War

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

||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|28 May 1982*||Goose Green

Battle of Goose Green

The Battle of Goose Green was an engagement of the Falklands War between British and Argentine forces. Goose Green and its neighbour Darwin are settlements on East Falkland in the Falkland Islands. They lie on Choiseul Sound on the east side of the island's central isthmus...

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Falkland Islands

The Falkland Islands are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located about from the coast of mainland South America. The archipelago consists of East Falkland, West Falkland and 776 lesser islands. The capital, Stanley, is on East Falkland...

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Falklands War

||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|12 June 1982*||Mount Longdon

Battle of Mount Longdon

The Battle of Mount Longdon was an engagement of the Falklands War between British and Argentine forces, which took place on 11–12 June 1982, resulting in the British victory and their occupation of a key position around the besieged Argentine garrison....

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Falkland Islands

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Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment

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

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11 June 2004||Al-Amarah, Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

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War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

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

||style="background:#e3d9ff;"|27 July 2006
20 August 2006*||Sangin

Sangin

Sangin is a town in Helmand province of Afghanistan, with population of approximately 14,000 people. It is located on in the valley of the Helmand River at 888 m altitude, 95 km to the north-east of Lashkar Gah. Sangin is notorious as one of the central locations of the opium trade in the...

, Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

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