Awards & Winners

Harold Ackroyd

Date of Birth 18-July-1877
Place of Birth Southport
(Lancashire, England, United Kingdom)
Nationality United Kingdom
Profession Soldier
Harold Ackroyd VC, MC 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. Harold Ackroyd was a temporary Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps of the British Army attached to the 6th Battalion of the Royal Berkshire Regiment, during the First World War: he was 40 years old when the following deed took place which was gazetted on 6 September 1917 and for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross.

Awards by Harold Ackroyd

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1917


Victoria Cross
(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place between 31 July 1917 and 1 August 1917 as Captain of the Royal Army Medical Corps, British Army, during the First World War.)