Name | Nationality | Date of action | Conflict | Unit | Place of action | Notes |
Bellenden Hutcheson | American | 1918 | First World War | 75th Bn Canadian Expeditionary Force | Drocourt-Quéant Support Line, France | [5] |
William Metcalf | American | 1918 | First World War | Canadian Expeditionary Force | Arras, France | [5] |
George Mullin | American | 1917 | First World War | Canadian Expeditionary Force | Passchendaele, Belgium | [5] |
William Seeley | American | 1864 | Bombardment of Shimonoseki | HMS Euryalus | Shimonoseki, Japan | |
Raphael Zengel | American | 1918 | First World War | Canadian Expeditionary Force | Warvillers, France | [6] |
AAA |
AustraliaList of 91 Australian recipients |
AAA |
AAA |
AA01 |
AAA |
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Adrian de Wiart | Belgian | 1916 | First World War | BB0044th Dragoon Guards | La Boiselle, France | |
Samuel Hodge | British Virgin Islander | 1866 | Gambia Campaign | BB0044th West India Regiment | Tubabecelong, Gambia | |
AAB |
CanadaList of 96 Canadian recipients |
AAB |
AAB |
AA02 |
AAB |
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Duncan Home | Channel Islander | 1857 | Indian Mutiny | Bengal Sappers and Miners | Delhi, India | |
George Ingouville | Jersey, Channel Islands | 1855 | Crimean War | HMS Arrogant | Vyborg, Russia | |
Herbert Le Patourel | Guernsey, Channel Islands | 1942 | Second World War | Hampshire Regiment | Tebourba, Tunisia | |
Ferdinand Le Quesne | Jersey, Channel Islands | 1889 | British rule in Burma | Royal Army Medical Corps | Voklaak, Burma | |
John McCrea | Channel Islander | 1881 | Basuto Gun War | BB0011st Cape Mounted Yeomanry | Tweefontein, South Africa | |
George Nurse | Channel Islander | 1899 | Second Boer War | Royal Field Artillery | Colenso, South Africa | |
Euston Sartorious | Channel Islander | 1859 | Second Anglo-Afghan War | BB05959th Regiment of Foot | Shahjui, Afghanistan | |
Reginald Sartorious | Channel Islander | 1874 | First Ashanti Expedition | BB0066th Bengal Cavalry | Obugu, Ashanti | |
Thomas Dinesen | Danish | 1918 | First World War | BB04242nd Bn CEF Canadian Expeditionary Force | Parvillers, France | |
Percy Hansen | Danish | 1915 | First World War | BB0066th Lincolnshire Regiment | Gallipoli, Turkey |
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Anders Lassen | Danish | 1945* | Second World War | Special Boat Service | Comacchio, Italy | |
AAC |
EnglandList of 600+ English recipients (may be incomplete) |
AAC |
AAC |
AA03 |
AAC |
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Sefanaia Sukanaivalu | Fijian | 1944* | Second World War | Fiji Infantry Regiment | Mawaraka, Bougainville Island | |
Charles Wooden | German | 1854 | Crimean War | BB01717th Lancers | Balaklava, Crimea | |
Johnson Beharry | Grenadian | 2004 | Iraq War | Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment | Amarah, Iraq | |
William Johnstone | Hanoverian | 1854 | Crimean War | HMS Arrogant, RN | Åland, Finland | [7] |
Premindra Bhagat | Indian | 1941 | Second World War | Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners | Gallabat, Abyssinia | |
Yeshwant Ghadge | Indian | 1944* | Second World War | 5th Mahratta Light Infantry | Upper Tiber Valley, Italy | |
Abdul Hafiz | Indian | 1944* | Second World War | BB0099th Jat Regiment | Imphal, India | |
Namdeo Jadav | Indian | 1945 | Second World War | BB0055th Mahratta Light Infantry | Senio River, Italy | |
Karamjeet Judge | Indian | 1945* | Second World War | BB41515th Punjab Regiment | Meiktila, Burma | |
Lala | Indian | 1916 | First World War | BB04141st Dogras | El Orah, Mesopotamia | |
Darwan Negi | Indian | 1914 | First World War | BB03939th Garhwal Rifles | Festubert, France | |
Gabar Negi | Indian | 1915* | First World War | BB03939th Garhwal Rifles | Neuve Chapelle, France | |
Bhandari Ram | Indian | 1944 | Second World War | BB01010th Baluch Regiment | Arakan State, Burma | |
Chhelu Ram | Indian | 1943* | Second World War | BB0066th Rajputana Rifles | Djebel Garci, Tunisia | |
Kamal Ram | Indian | 1944 | Second World War | BB0088th Punjab Regiment | River Gari, Italy | |
Richhpal Ram | Indian | 1941* | Second World War | BB0066th Rajputana Rifles | Keren, Eritrea | |
Badlu Singh | Indian | 1918* | First World War | BB01414th Murray's Jat Lancers | River Jordan, Palestine | |
Chatta Singh | Indian | 1916 | First World War | BB0099th Bhopal Infantry | Battle of the Wadi, Mesopotamia | |
Gian Singh | Indian | 1945 | Second World War | BB01515th Punjab Regiment | Myingyan, Burma | |
Gobind Singh | Indian | 1917 | First World War | BB02828th Light Cavalry | Pezières, France | [8] |
Ishar Singh | Indian | 1921 | Waziristan Campaign | BB02828th Punjabis | Haidari Kach, India | |
Nand Singh | Indian | 1944 | Second World War | BB11111th Sikh Regiment | Maungdaw–Buthidaung Road, Burma | |
Parkash Singh | Indian | 1943 | Second World War | BB0088th Punjab Regiment | Donbaik, Burma | |
Prakash Chib | Indian | 1945* | Second World War | BB01313th Frontier Force Rifles | Kanlan Ywathit, Burma | |
Ram Singh | Indian | 1944* | Second World War | BB0011st Punjab Regiment | Kennedy Peak, Burma | |
Mir Dast | Indian | 1915 | First World War | BB05555th Coke's Rifles (Frontier Force) | Wieltje, Belgium | |
Fazal Din | Indian | 1945 | Second World War | BB01010th Baluch Regiment | Meiktila, Burma | |
Ganju Lama | Indian | 1944 | Second World War | BB0077th Gurkha Rifles | Ningthoukhong, Burma | |
Ali Haidar | Indian | 1945 | Second World War | BB01313th Frontier Force Rifles | Fusignano, Italy | |
Khudadad Khan | Indian | 1914 | First World War | BB129129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis | Hollebeke, Belgium | |
Shahamad Khan | Indian | 1916 | First World War | BB08989th Punjabis | Beit Ayeesa, Mesopotamia | |
Sher Shah | Indian | 1945* | Second World War | BB01616th Punjab Regiment | Kyeyebyin, Burma | |
Umrao Singh | Indian | 1944 | Second World War | Royal Indian Artillery | Kaladan Valley, Burma | |
AAD |
IrelandList of 195 Irish recipients |
AAD |
AAD |
AA04 |
AAD |
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William Gordon | Jamaican | 1892 | Second Gambian Campaign | West India Regiment | Toniataba, Gambia | |
Nigel Leakey |
Kenyan |
1941* |
Second World War |
BB012King's African Rifles |
Colito, Abyssinia |
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Robert Henry Cain | Manx | 1944 | Second World War | BB0022nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment | Arnhem, Netherlands | [9] |
Gaje Ghale | Nepalese | 1943 | Second World War | BB0055th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force) | Chin Hills, Burma | |
Bhanbhagta Gurung | Nepalese | 1945 | Second World War | BB0022nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles | Tamandu, Burma | |
Lachhiman Gurung | Nepalese | 1945 | Second World War | BB0088th Gurkha Rifles | Taungdaw, Burma | |
Thaman Gurung | Nepalese | 1944* | Second World War | BB0055th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force) | Monte San Bartolo, Italy | |
Rambahadur Limbu | Nepalese | 1965 | Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation | BB01010th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles | Sarawak, Borneo | |
Tulbahadur Pun | Nepalese | 1944 | Second World War | BB0066th Gurkha Rifles | Mogaung, Burma | |
Agansing Rai | Nepalese | 1944 | Second World War | BB0055th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force) | Bishenpur, India | |
Karanbahadur Rana | Nepalese | 1918 | First World War | BB0033rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles | El Kefr, Egypt | |
Kulbir Thapa | Nepalese | 1915 | First World War | BB0033rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles | Fauquissart, France | |
Lalbahadur Thapa | Nepalese | 1943 | Second World War | BB0032nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles | Rass-es-Zouai, Tunisia | |
Netrabahadur Thapa | Nepalese | 1944* | Second World War | BB0055th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force) | Bishenpur, India | |
Sher Thapa | Nepalese | 1944* | Second World War | BB0099th Gurkha Rifles | San Marino, Italy | |
Leslie Andrew | New Zealander | 1917 | First World War | Wellington Infantry Regiment | La Basse Ville, Belgium | |
Cyril Bassett | New Zealander | 1915 | First World War | New Zealand Divisional Signal Company | Gallipoli, Turkey | |
Donald Brown | New Zealander | 1916 | First World War | Otago Infantry Regiment | High Wood, France | [10] |
James Crichton | New Zealander | 1918 | First World War | BB500Auckland Infantry Regiment | Crèvecœur, France | |
Cecil D'Arcy | New Zealander | 1879 | Anglo-Zulu War | Frontier Light Horse | Ulundi, South Africa | |
Keith Elliott | New Zealander | 1942 | Second World War | BB02222nd, 2nd New Zealand Division | Ruweisat, Egypt | |
Samuel Forsyth | New Zealander | 1918* | First World War | Royal New Zealand Engineers | Grévillers, France | |
Bernard Freyberg | New Zealander | 1916 | First World War | BB06363rd (Royal Naval) Division | Beaucourt sur Ancre, France | |
Samuel Frickleton | New Zealander | 1917 | First World War | New Zealand Rifle Brigade | Messines, Belgium | |
John Grant | New Zealander | 1918 | First World War | Wellington Infantry Regiment | Bancourt, France | |
William Hardham | New Zealander | 1901 | Second Boer War | BB0044th New Zealand Contingent | Naauwpoort, South Africa | |
Charles Heaphy | New Zealander | 1864 | New Zealand Wars | BB501Auckland Militia | Mangapiko River, New Zealand | |
John Hinton | New Zealander | 1941 | Second World War | BB02020th, 2nd New Zealand Division | Kalamai, Greece | |
Clive Hulme | New Zealander | 1941 | Second World War | BB02323rd, 2nd New Zealand Division | Crete, Greece | |
Reginald Judson | New Zealander | 1918 | First World War | BB500Auckland Infantry Regiment | Bapaume, France | |
Harry Laurent | New Zealander | 1918 | First World War | New Zealand Rifle Brigade | Gouzeaucourt Wood, France | |
Moana-Nui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu | New Zealander | 1943* | Second World War | BB02828th, 2nd New Zealand Division | Tebaga Gap, Tunisia | |
Henry Nicholas | New Zealander | 1917 | First World War | Canterbury Infantry Regiment | Polderhoek, Belgium | |
William Sanders | New Zealander | 1917* | First World War | HMS Prize (HMS Prize) | Atlantic | |
Alfred Shout | New Zealander | 1915* | First World War | First Australian Imperial Force | Gallipoli | |
Richard Travis | New Zealander | 1918* | First World War | Otago Infantry Regiment | Rossignol Wood, France | |
Leonard Trent | New Zealander | 1943 | Second World War | No. 487 Squadron RNZAF | Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
Willie Apiata | New Zealander | 2004 | Afghanistan War | New Zealand Special Air Service | Afghanistan, Afghanistan | |
Lloyd Trigg | New Zealander | 1943* | Second World War | No. 200 Squadron RAF | Atlantic | |
Charles Upham | New Zealander | 1941 1942 | Second World War | BB02020th, 2nd New Zealand Division | Crete, Greece, (1941), Ruweisat Ridge, Egypt (1942) | [11] |
James Ward | New Zealander | 1941* | Second World War | No. 75 Squadron RNZAF | Munster, Germany | |
John Croak | Newfoundlander | 1918* | First World War | BB01313th Battalion, CEF | Amiens, France | [12] |
Thomas Ricketts | Newfoundlander | 1918 | First World War | Royal Newfoundland Regiment | Ledeghem, Belgium | [12] |
Frank Baxter | Rhodesian | 1896* | Matabeleland Rebellion | Bulawayo Field Force | Umguza, Rhodesia | |
Frederick Booth | South African | 1917 | First World War | British South Africa Police | Johannesburg, German East Africa | .[13] Attached to Rhodesian Native Regiment |
Herbert Henderson | Rhodesian | 1897 | Matabeleland Rebellion | Bulawayo Field Force | Bulawayo, Rhodesia | |
AAE |
ScotlandList of 164 Scottish recipients |
AAE |
AAE |
AA05 |
AAE |
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Herman Albrecht | South African | 1900* | Second Boer War | Imperial Light Horse | Ladysmith, South Africa | |
Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor | South African | 1918 | First World War | No. 84 Squadron RFC | Western Front, France | |
John Clements | South African | 1901 | Second Boer War | Rimington's Guides | Strijdenburg, South Africa | |
Joseph Crowe | South African | 1857 | Indian Mutiny | BB07878th Regiment of Foot | Boursekee Chowkee, India |
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William Faulds | South African | 1916 | First World War | BB0011st South African Infantry | Delville Wood, France | |
George Gristock | South African | 1940* | Second World War | Royal Norfolk Regiment | Tournai, Belgium | |
Edmund Hartley | South African | 1879 | Zulu War | Cape Mounted Riflemen | Morosi's Mountain, South Africa | |
Reginald Hayward | South African | 1918 | First World War | Wiltshire Regiment | Fremicourt, France | |
William Hewitt | South African | 1917 | First World War | BB0022nd South African Light Infantry | Ypres, Belgium | |
Horace Martineau | South African | 1899 | Second Boer War | Protectorate Regiment | Mafeking, South Africa | |
John McCrea | South African | 1881 | First Boer War | BB0011st Cape Mounted Yeomanry | Tweefontein, South Africa | |
Charles Mullins | South African | 1899 | Second Boer War | Imperial Light Horse | Elandslaagte, South Africa | |
Randolph Nesbitt | South African | 1896 | Mashona Rebellion | Mashonaland Mounted Police | Salisbury, Rhodesia | |
John Nettleton | South African | 1942 | Second World War | No. 44 (Rhodesia) Squadron RAF | Augsburg, Germany | |
Gerard Norton | South African | 1944 | Second World War | Kaffrarian Rifles | Monte Gidolfo, Italy | |
Oswald Reid | South African | 1917 | First World War | King's (Liverpool) Regiment | Dialah River, Mesopotamia | |
Clement Robertson | South African | 1917 | First World War | Queen's Royal Regiment | Zonnebeke, Belgium | |
John Sherwood-Kelly | South African | 1917 | First World War | Norfolk Regiment | Marcoing, France | [15] |
Quentin Smythe | South African | 1942 | Second World War | Natal Carbineers | Alem Hamza, Egypt | |
Edwin Swales | South African | 1945 | Second World War | South African Air Force | Pforzheim, Germany | |
Basil Horsfall | Sri Lankan (Ceylonese) | 1918* | First World War | East Lancashire Regiment | Ablainzevelle, France | |
Peter Brown | Swedish | 1879 | Basuto Gun War | Cape Mounted Riflemen | Morosi's Mountain, South Africa | |
Christian Schiess | Swiss | 1879 | Anglo-Zulu War | Natal Native Contingent | Rorke's Drift, South Africa | |
Filip Konowal | Ukrainian | 1917 | First World War | BB04747th (British Columbia) | Lens, France | [5] |
AAE |
ScotlandList of 58 uncertain nationality recipients |
AAE |
AAE |
AA05 |
AAE |
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Frederick Barter | Welsh | 1915 | First World War | Royal Welch Fusiliers | Festubert, France | |
Stephen Beattie | Welsh | 1942 | Second World War | HMS Campbeltown | Saint-Nazaire, France | |
Robert Bye | Welsh | 1917 | First World War | Welsh Guards | Yser Canal, Belgium | |
Edward Chapman | Welsh | 1945 | Second World War | Monmouthshire Regiment | Dortmund-Ems Canal, Germany | |
James Davies | Welsh | 1917* | First World War | Royal Welch Fusiliers | Polygon Wood, Belgium | |
Lewis Evans | Welsh | 1917 | First World War | Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) | Zonnebeke, Belgium | |
John Fox-Russell | Welsh | 1917* | First World War | Royal Army Medical Corps | Tel-el-Khuweilfeh, Palestine | |
William Fuller | Welsh | 1914 | First World War | Welch Regiment | Chivy-sur-Aisne, France | |
Robert Jones | Welsh | 1879 | Zulu War | BB02424th Regiment of Foot | Rorke's Drift, South Africa | |
Hubert Lewis | Welsh | 1916 | First World War | Welch Regiment | Macukovo, Greece | |
John Linton | Welsh | 1943* | Second World War | HMS Turbulent | At sea | |
Thomas Monaghan | Welsh | 1858 | Indian Mutiny | BB0022nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays) | Jamo, India | |
Ivor Rees | Welsh | 1917 | First World War | South Wales Borderers | Pilkem, Belgium | |
Lionel Rees | Welsh | 1916 | First World War | Royal Flying Corps | Double Crassieurs, France | |
Hugh Rowlands | Welsh | 1854 | Crimean War | BB04141st (Welsh) Regiment of Foot | Battle of Inkerman, Crimea | |
Robert Shields | Welsh | 1855 | Crimean War | BB02323rd Regiment | Sebastopol, Crimea | |
Jacob Thomas | Welsh | 1857 | Indian Mutiny | Bengal Artillery | Lucknow, India | |
Richard Wain | Welsh | 1917* | First World War | BB499"A" Battalion, Tank Corps | Cambrai/Marcoing, France | |
Bernard Warburton-Lee | Welsh | 1940* | Second World War | British 2nd Destroyer Flotilla | Narvik, Norway | [16] |
William Waring | Welsh | 1918* | First World War | Royal Welch Fusiliers | Ronssoy, France | |
Tasker Watkins | Welsh | 1944 | Second World War | Welch Regiment | Barfour, France | |
Henry Weale | Welsh | 1918 | First World War | Royal Welch Fusiliers | Bazentin-le-Grand, France | |
Jack Williams | Welsh | 1918 | First World War | South Wales Borderers | Villers Outreaux, France | |
John Williams | Welsh | 1879 | Zulu War | BB02424th Regiment of Foot | Rorke's Drift, South Africa | |
William Williams | Welsh | 1917 | First World War | HMS Pargust (HMS Pargust) | Atlantic, near France | [17] |