Awards & Winners

1879 Victoria Cross

Check winners and nominations of 1879 Victoria Cross. Check awards winners of 1879 Victoria Cross. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

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Nevill Coghill

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 22 January, 1879 as Lieutenant of the 24th Regiment of Foot during the Zulu War. Posthumously awarded.)
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Gonville Bromhead

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 22nd-23rd January, 1879 as Lieutenant of the 24th Regiment of Foot during the Zulu War.)
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James Langley Dalton

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 22nd January, 1879 as Assistant Commissary of the Commissariat and Transport Department during the Zulu War.)
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John Chard

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 22\u201323 January, 1879 as Lieutenant of the Royal Engineers during the Zulu War.)
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Anthony Clarke Booth

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 12 March 1879 as Colour Sergeant of the 18th Regiment of Foot during the Zulu War.)
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Edmund Fowler

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 28th March, 1879 as Private of the 26th Regiment of Foot during the Zulu War.)
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Redvers Buller

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 28th March, 1879 as Brevet Lieutenant Colonel of the 60th Rifles during the Zulu War.)
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Peter Brown

(In recognition of conspicuous bravery that took place on 8 April 1879 as a Trooper in the Cape Mounted Riflemen, Cape Colonial Forces during the Basuto War.)
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William Allen

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 22\u201323 January 1879 as corporal of the 24th Regiment of Foot during the Zulu war.)
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Lord William Beresford

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 3rd July 1879 as Captain of the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers during the Anglo-Zuliu War.)
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Cecil D'Arcy

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 3rd July 1879 as Captain of the Frontier Light Horse during the Zulu War.)
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Thomas Flawn

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 28 November, 1879 as Private of the Connaught Rangers during the Basuto War.)
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Francis Fitzpatrick

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 28th November, 1879 as Private of the Connaught Rangers during the Basuto War.)
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O'Moore Creagh

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 21st April, 1879 as Captain of the Bombay Staff Corps during the Second Anglo-Afghan War.)
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James William Adams

(In recognition of conspicuous bravery that took place on the 11 December 1879 as chaplain in the Bengal Ecclesiastical Department (serving as chaplain to the Kabul Field Force), British Indian Army during the Second Afghan War.)
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William Dick-Cunyngham

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 13th December, 1879 as Lieutenant of the 92nd Regiment of Foot during the Second Afghan War.)
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Arthur George Hammond

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 14th December, 1879 as Captain in the Bengal Staff Corps, British Indian Army during the Second Anglo-Afghan War.)
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Reginald Hart

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 31st January, 1879 as Lieutenant of the Royal Engineers during the Second Afghan War.)
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Frederick Hitch

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 22\u201323 January, 1879 as Private of the 24th Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Edmund Hartley

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 5 June 1879 as Surgeon Major of the Cape Mounted Riflemen during the Basuto War.)
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Henry Hook

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 22\u201323rd January, 1879 as Private of the 24th Regiment of Foot during the Anglo-Zulu War.)
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Edward Stevenson Browne

(\u201CIn recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on March 29, 1879 as Lieutenant of the 24th Regiment of Foot during the Zulu War.)
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William Leet

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 28th March, 1879 as Major of the 13th Regiment of Foot during the Anglo-Zulu War.)
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William Jones

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 22nd-23rd January, 1879 as Private of the 24th Regiment of Foot, British Army during the Zulu War.)
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Edmund O'Toole

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 3 July 1879 as Sergeant of the Cape Frontier Light Horse during the Zulu War.)
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Richard Ridgeway

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 22nd November, 1879 as Captain of the Bengal Staff Corps during the Second Naga Hills Expedition.)
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Henry Lysons

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 28th March, 1879 as Lieutenant of the 26th Regiment of Foot during the Anglo-Zulu War.)
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Walter Hamilton

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 2nd April, 1879 as Lieutenant of the Staff Corps and Corps of Guides, Indian Army during the Second Afghan War.)
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Edward Pemberton Leach

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 17 March 1879 as Captain of the Royal Engineers & Bengal Sappers and Miners during the Second Afghan War.)
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Robert George Scott

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 8 April 1879 as Sergeant of the Cape Mounted Riflemen during the Basuto War.)
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James Henry Reynolds

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 22th January 1879 as Surgeon Major of the Army Medical Department during the Zulu War.)
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George Sellar

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 14th December, 1879 as Lance corporal in the 72nd Regiment of Foot, British Army during the Second Anglo-Afghan War.)
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Ferdinand Schiess

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 22-23rd January, 1879 as Corporal of the Natal Native Contingent during the Anglo-Zulu War.)
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Robert Jones

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on the night between 22nd and 24th January, 1879 as Private of the 24th Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)
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Teignmouth Melvill

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 22 January 1879 as a lieutenant in the 1st Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot during the Anglo-Zulu War. Posthumously awarded.)
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William Vousden

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 14 December, 1879 as Captain of the 5th Punjab Cavalry during the Second Afghan War.)
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Samuel Wassall

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 22nd January, 1879 as Private of the 80th Regiment of Foot (Staffordshire Volunteers) during the Zulu War.)
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John Williams

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 22nd-23rd January, 1879 as Private in the 2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot, British Army during the Anglo-Zulu War.)
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Euston Sartorius

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 24th October, 1879 as Captain of the 59th Regiment of Foot during the Second Afghan War.)
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George White

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 6 October 1879 as Major of the 92nd Regiment of Foot during the Second Afghan War.)