Awards & Winners

1897 Victoria Cross

Check winners and nominations of 1897 Victoria Cross. Check awards winners of 1897 Victoria Cross. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Victoria Cross

Edmund Costello

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 26th July, 1897 as Lieutenant of the 22nd Punjab Infantry during the Siege of Malakand.)
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Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 17th August, 1897 as Lieutenant of the 16th Lancers during the Tirah Campaign.)
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James Morris Colquhoun Colvin

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 16th or 17th September 1897, in the Mohmand Valley, North West British India as Lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Engineers, British Army during the Mohmand Campaign.)
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Robert Bellew Adams

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 17 August 1897 as Brevet Lieutenant Colonel of the Corps of Guides during the Tirah Campaign.)
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Edward Lawson

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 20 October, 1897 as Private of the Gordon Highlanders during the Tirah Campaign.)
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George Findlater

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 20 October 1897, as Piper of the Gordon Highlanders during the Tirah Campaign.)
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Henry Singleton Pennell

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 20 October, 1897 as Lieutenant of the Sherwood Foresters during the Tirah Campaign.)
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James Smith

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 16 September 1897, as Corporal of the Corps of Royal Engineers during the Mohmand Campaign.)
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Thomas Colclough Watson

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 16th September, 1897 as Lieutenant of the Corps of Royal Engineers during the First Mohmand Campaign.)
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Samuel Vickery

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 20 October 1897 as Private of the Dorset Regiment during the Tirah Campaign.)
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Hector Lachlan Stewart MacLean

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 17th August, 1897 as Lieutenant of the Corps of Guides during the Tirah Campaign. Posthumously awarded.)