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VICTORIA CROSS RECIPIENTS BORN IN ENGLAND This list has been compiled with input from the Imperial War Museum and the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association and with reference to 'The Victoria Cross and the George Cross: the complete history' published by Methuen in 2013. However, it remains a work in progress and parts in red reflect historical uncertainties. Cells highlighted yellow indicate that we have not yet received a delivery address from the council. Please e-mail [email protected] to supply this information FNAME LNAME REGIMENT BORN BORN COUNTY THOMAS JACKSON Coldstream Guards SWINTON YORKSHIRE ANKETELL READ The Northamptonshire RegimentCHELTENHAM GLOUCESTERSHIRE EDWARD BENN SMITH The Lancashire Fusiliers MARYPORT CUMBRIA JAMES SMITH The Border Regiment WORKINGTON CUMBRIA WILLIAM GREGG The Rifle Brigade HEANOR DERBYSHIRE CHARLES STONE Royal Field Artillery RIPLEY DERBYSHIRE WILFRED FULLER Grenadier Guards EAST KIRKBY NOTTINGHAMSHIRE FREDERICK COPPINS Manitoba Regiment, Canadian LONDON/CHARING Expeditionary Force -book LONDON/KENT - book EDWARD BROOKS The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire OAKLEY Light Infantry BUCKINGHAMSHIRE WILLIAM HEWITT South African Light Infantry COPDOCK SUFFOLK JOB DRAIN Royal Field Artillery BARKING ESSEX CYRIL FRISBY Coldstream Guards NEW BARNET HERTFORDSHIRE EDWARD MELLISH Army Chaplains' Department BARNET HERTFORDSHIRE ALBERT SHEPHERD The King's Royal Rifle Corps ROYSTON YORKSHIRE WILLIAM FORSHAW The Manchester Regiment BARROW-IN-FURNESS CUMBRIA JOHN LIDDELL Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE TYNE AND WEAR JAMES WELCH The Royal Berkshire Regiment STRATFIELD SAYE HAMPSHIRE WILLIAM JOHNSON The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire WORKSOP and Derbyshire NOTTINGHAMSHIRE Regiment) OLIVER BROOKS Coldstream Guards PAULTON/MIDSOMER NORTON SOMERSET WILLIAM AMEY The Royal Warwickshire Regiment DUDDESTON BIRMINGHAM NORMAN FINCH HMS Vindictive HANDSWORTH BIRMINGHAM ALBERT GILL The King's Royal Rifle Corps BIRMINGHAM BIRMINGHAM WALTER/HERBERT JAMES The Worcestershire Regiment LADYWOOD BIRMINGHAM ALFRED KNIGHT The London Regiment (Post LADYWOOD Office Rifles) BIRMINGHAM JOSEPH TOMBS The King's (Liverpool Regiment)BIRMINGHAM BIRMINGHAM THOMAS TURRALL The Worcestershire Regiment SMALL HEATH/HAY MILLS BIRMINGHAM ARTHUR VICKERS The Royal Warwickshire Regiment BIRMINGHAM BIRMINGHAM ALFRED WILCOX The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire ASTON Light Infantry BIRMINGHAM PERCY DEAN HM Motor Launch 282 BLACKBURN LANCASHIRE WILLIAM GRIMBALDESTON King's Own Scottish Borderers BLACKBURN LANCASHIRE JOHN SCHOFIELD The Lancashire Fusiliers BLACKBURN LANCASHIRE JAMES FYNN The South Wales Borderers TRURO CORNWALL EDWARD BARBER Grenadier Guards TRING HERTFORDSHIRE CHRISTOPHER COX The Bedfordshire Regiment KING'S LANGLEY HERTFORDSHIRE HORACE CURTIS The Royal Dublin Fusiliers ST ANTHONY-IN-ROSELAND CORNWALL HAROLD JACKSON The East Yorkshire Regiment ALLANDALES/KIRTON LINCOLNSHIRE CECIL NOBLE The Rifle Brigade BOURNEMOUTH/BOSCOMBE DORSET FREDERICK RIGGS The York and Lancaster Regiment BOURNEMOUTH DORSET MONTAGUE MOORE The Hampshire Regiment BOURNEMOUTH/ WORTHING DORSET/SUSSEX SAMUEL MEEKOSHA The West Yorkshire Regiment LEEDS YORKSHIRE ARTHUR CROSS Machine Gun Corps SHIPDHAM NORFOLK CHARLES GARFORTH (The King's) Hussars WILLESDEN GREEN LONDON WILLIAM MERRIFIELD Central Ontario Regiment, CanadianBRENTWOOD Expeditionary Force ESSEX ERNEST BEAL Prince Wales Own Yorkshire BRIGHTON Regiment SUSSEX THEODORE WRIGHT Field Compan, Royal Engineers BRIGHTON/HOVE SUSSEX DANIEL BURGES The Gloucestershire Regiment BLOOMSBURY LONDON THOMAS RENDLE The Duke of Cornwall's Light BEDMINSTER Infantry BRISTOL DOUGLAS REYNOLDS Royal Field Artillery CLIFTON BRISTOL FREDERICK ROOM The Royal Irish Regiment BRISTOL BRISTOL HARRY CATOR The East Surrey Regiment DRAYTON NORFOLK HERBERT COLUMBINE Machine Gun Corps PENGE LONDON GEOFFREY WHITE HM Submarine E14 BROMLEY KENT HUGH COLVIN The Cheshire Regiment BURNLEY LANCASHIRE THOMAS WHITHAM Coldstream Guards WORSTHORNE LANCASHIRE JAMES HUTCHINSON The Lancashire Fusiliers RADCLIFFE LANCASHIRE GEORGE PEACHMENT The King's Royal Rifle Corps BURY LANCASHIRE JAMES FORBES-ROBERTSON The Border Regiment BRIGHOUSE YORKSHIRE HARRY WELLS The Royal Sussex Regiment HERNE BAY KENT EDWARD BOYLE HM Submarine E14 CARLISLE CUMBRIA ARTHUR KILBY The South Staffordshire Regiment CHELTENHAM GLOUCESTERSHIRE RICHARD WEST North Irish Horse CHELTENHAM GLOUCESTERSHIRE CHRISTOPHER BUSHELL The Queen's Royal West Surrey LITTLE Regiment NESTON CHESHIRE JAMES CLARKE The Lancashire Fusiliers WINSFORD CHESHIRE WILLIAM CONGREVE The Rifle Brigade BURTON/WIRRALL CHESHIRE WILFRITH ELSTOB The Manchester Regiment CHICHESTER SUSSEX WILLIAM MARINER The King's Royal Rifle Corps CHORLEY LANCASHIRE JAMES MILLER King's Own (Royal Lancaster HOUGHTON Regiment) LANCASHIRE GEORGE CHAFER The East Yorkshire Regiment BRADFORD YORKSHIRE THOMAS MAUFE Royal Garrison Artillery ILKLEY YORKSHIRE FREDERICK DANCOX The Worcestershire Regiment WORCESTER WORCESTERSHIRE RICHARD BELL DAVIES No 3 Squadron, Royal Navy KENSINGTON Air Service LONDON LEONARD KEYWORTH The London Regiment (The LINCOLN Queen's) LINCOLNSHIRE JAMES UPTON The Sherwood Foresters (NottinghamshireLINCOLN and DerbyshireLINCOLNSHIRE Regiment) BERTRAM BEST-DUNKLEY The Lancashire Fusiliers YORK YORKSHIRE ABRAHAM ACTON The Border Regiment WHITEHAVEN CUMBRIA TOM MAYSON The King's Own Royal Lancaster SILECROFT Regiment CUMBRIA ERNEST PITCHER Q Ship HMS Dunraven MULLION CORNWALL DUDLEY JOHNSON South Wales Borderers BOURTON-ON-THE-WATER GLOUCESTERSHIRE ARTHUR HUTT The Royal Warwickshire Regiment COVENTRY WARWICKSHIRE CHARLES ROBERTSON The Royal Fusiliers BENTHAM YORKSHIRE GORDON CAMPBELL Q Ship HMS Farnborough CROYDON SURREY GEORGE BRADFORD HMS Iris II DARLINGTON/WHITTON PARKCO DURHAM THEODORE VEALE The Devonshire Regiment DARTMOUTH DEVONSHIRE HENRY REYNOLDS The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) WHILTON NORTHAMPTONSHIRE JOHN COLLINGS-WELLS The Bedfordshire Regiment MARKYATE/ RUSHOLME BEDFORDSHIRE/MANCHESTER- book CHARLES HUDSON The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire DERBY and Derbyshire DERBYSHIRE Regiment) JACOB RIVERS The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire DERBY and Derbyshire DERBYSHIRE Regiment) THOMAS BARRATT The South Staffordshire Regiment COSELEY WORCESTERSHIRE EDWARD BAXTER The King's Liverpool Regiment STOURBRIDGE WORCESTERSHIRE THOMAS BRYAN The Northumberland Fusiliers LYE WORCESTERSHIRE ROLAND BRADFORD Durham Light Infantry WITTON PARK CO DURHAM MICHAEL HEAVISIDE The Durham Light Infantry DURHAM CITY CO DURHAM THOMAS KENNY The Durham Light Infantry SOUTH WINGATE CO DURHAM GEORGE MCKEAN Quebec Regiment, Canadian WILLINGTON Expeditionary Force CO DURHAM WILLIAM MCNALLY The Prince of Wales Own YorkshireMURTON Regiment CO DURHAM JOHN YOULL Northumberland Fusiliers THORNLEY CO DURHAM RICHARD SANDFORD HM Submarine C3 EXMOUTH/EXETER DEVONSHIRE SIDNEY GODLEY Royal Fusiliers (City of London EAST Regt) GRINSTEAD SUSSEX ERNEST HORLOCK Royal Field Artillery ALTON HAMPSHIRE LOFTUS JONES HMS Shark PETERSFIELD/SOUTHSEA HAMPSHIRE ALFRED BURT The Hertfordshire Regiment HERTFORD HERTFORDSHIRE BERNARD VANN The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire RUSHDEN and Derbyshire NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Regiment) HARRY WOOD Scots Guards POCKLINGTON YORKSHIRE WILLIAM COLTMAN The Prince of Wales's North BURTON-UPON-TRENT Staffordshire Regiment STAFFORDSHIRE CUTHBERT BROMLEY The Lancashire Fusiliers SEAFORD/SHEPHERDS BUSHSUSSEX/LONDON NELSON CARTER The Royal Sussex Regiment EASTBOURNE SUSSEX ROBERT BEATHAM Australian Imperial Force (Victoria) PENRITH CUMBRIA JOHN CHRISTIE The London Regiment (Finsbury EDMONTON Rifles) LONDON ALLASTAIR MCREADY-DIARMID The Duke of Cambridge's Own SOUTHGATE Middlesex Regiment LONDON THEODORE HARDY Army Chaplains' Department EXETER DEVONSHIRE PHILIP NEAME Field Compan, Royal Engineers FAVERSHAM KENT ANGUS BUCHANAN The South Wales Borderers COLEFORD GLOUCESTERSHIRE FRANCIS MILES The Gloucestershire Regiment CLEARWELL GLOUCESTERSHIRE HENRY KENNY The Loyal North LancashireWOOLWICH Regiment LONDON JOHN PATTISON Alberta Regiment, Canadian WOOLWICH Expeditionary Force LONDON ERIC ROBINSON HMS Vengeance GREENWICH LONDON CECIL SEWELL The Queen's Own Royal West GREENWICH Kent Regiment LONDON FRANCIS GRENFELL (Queen's Royal) Lancers GUILDFORD SURREY ALFRED SMITH The East Lancashire Regiment GUILDFORD SURREY THOMAS JONES The Cheshire Regiment RUNCORN CHESHIRE THOMAS MOTTERSHEAD Royal Flying Corps WIDNES LANCASHIRE/ CHESHIRE -book ALFRED HERRING Army Service Corps TOTTENHAM LONDON CHARLES TRAIN The London Regiment FINSBURY PARK LONDON EDWARD BAMFORD Royal Marine Light Infantry, HIGHGATE HMS Vindictive LONDON DONALD BELL The Prince of Wales Own YorkshireHARROGATE Regiment YORKSHIRE CHARLES HULL Empress of India's Lancers HARROGATE YORKSHIRE ARCHIE WHITE The Prince of Wales Own YorkshireBOROUGHBRIDGE Regiment YORKSHIRE WILLIAM ADDISON Army Chaplains' DepartmentNORTH WARNBOROUGHHAMPSHIRE MANLEY JAMES The Gloucestershire Regiment ODIHAM HAMPSHIRE ARTHUR KNIGHT Alberta Regiment, Canadian HAYWARDS Expeditionary HEATH Force SUSSEX LEONARD LEWIS The Northamptonshire Regiment WHITNEY-ON-WYE HEREFORDSHIRE ARTHUR MARTIN - LEAKE Royal Army Medical Corps HIGH CROSS HERTFORDSHIRE CECIL KINROSS Alberta Regiment, Canadian HAREFIELD Expeditionary Force MIDDLESEX ROBERT EDWARD RYDER The Duke of Cambridge's Own HAREFIELD Middlesex Regiment MIDDLESEX ROBERT SPALL Eastern Ontario Regiment, BRENTFORD/EALINGCanadian Expeditionary Force MIDDLESEX JOHN HARRISON The East Yorkshire Regiment KINGSTON UPON HULL