Awards & Winners

Basil Horsfall

Date of Birth 04-October-1887
Place of Birth Colombo
(Colombo District, Sri Lanka)
Nationality United Kingdom
Profession Soldier
Second Lieutenant Basil Arthur Horsfall, VC was a British-Ceylonese 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.

Awards by Basil Horsfall

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1918


Victoria Cross
(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 21 March 1918 as Second Lieutenant of the 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment, British Army during the First World War. Posthumously awarded.)