Awards & Winners

1944 Victoria Cross

Check winners and nominations of 1944 Victoria Cross. Check awards winners of 1944 Victoria Cross. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

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Cyril Joe Barton

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 30th March, 1944 as Pilot Officer of the No. 578 Squadron RAF during the Second World War. Posthumously awarded.)
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Abdul Hafiz

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 6th April, 1944 as Jemadar of the 9th Jat Infantry during the Second World War. Posthumously awarded.)
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Agansing Rai

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 26th June, 1944 as Naik of the 5th Gurkha Rifles during the Second World War.)
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Michael Allmand

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on June 1944 as Captain of 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles during the Second World War. Posthumously awarded.)
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George Albert Cairns

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 13 March 1944, as acting lieutenant of the South Staffordshire Regiment of the second world war. Posthumously awarded.)
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Ian Willoughby Bazalgette

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 4th August, 1944 as Squadron Leader of the No. 635 Squadron RAF during the Second World War. Posthumously awarded.)
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John Cruickshank

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 17-18 July, 1944 as Flight Lieutenant of the No. 210 Squadron RAF during the Second World War.)
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Sidney Bates

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 6th August, 1944 as Corporal of the Royal Norfolk Regiment during the Second World War. Posthumously awarded.)
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George Harold Eardley

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 16 October, 1944 as Sergeant of King's Shropshire Light Infantry during the Second World War.)
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Richard Henry Burton

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 10th October, 1944 as Private in the 1st Battalion, The Duke of Wellington's (West Riding) Regiment, British Army, during the Second World War.)
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John Brunt

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 9th December, 1944 as Temporary Captain of the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) during the Second World War. Posthumously awarded.)
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John Baskeyfield

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 20 September 1944 as Acting Lance-Sergeant of the South Staffordshire Regiment during the Second World War. Posthumously awarded.)
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Frank Blaker

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 9th July 1944 as Major of the 9th Gurkha Rifles during the Second World War. Posthumously awarded.)
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John Grayburn

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 17th-20th September, 1944 as Lieutenant John Hollington Grayburn (149002), Parachute Regiment, Army Air Corps (Chalfont St. Giles), during the Second World War. Posthumously awarded.)
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Robert Henry Cain

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place from the 17th to the 25th of September 1944 as Temporary Major of the South Staffordshire Regiment during the Second World War.)
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John William Harper

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 29th September, 1944 as Corporal in the 4th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment, British Army during the Second World War. Posthumously awarded.)
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Charles Ferguson Hoey

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 16th February, 1944 as Temporary Major of the Lincolnshire Regiment during the Second World War. Posthumously awarded.)
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David Vivian Currie

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 18th\u201320th August, 1944 as Major of the South Alberta Regiment during the Second World War.)
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Stanley Hollis

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 6th June, 1944 as Company Sergeant-Major in the 6th Battalion, Green Howards, British Army during the Second World War.)
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David Ernest Hornell

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 24th June, 1944 as Bombardier of the No. 162 Squadron RCAF during the Second World War. Posthumously awarded.)
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Alec George Horwood

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 18th-20th January, 1944 as Lieutenant in the 1/6th Battalion, The Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment, British Army, attached to 1st Battalion, The Northamptonshire Regiment during the Second World War. Posthumously awarded.)
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Ganju Lama

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 12 June 1944 as a rifleman in the 1st Battalion, 7th Gurkha Rifles, in the Indian Army during World War II.)
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Norman Cyril Jackson

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 26th April, 1944 as Sergeant of the No. 106 Squadron RAF, during the Second World War.)
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David Jamieson

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place from the 7th to the 8th of August 1944 as Captain of the Royal Norfolk Regiment during the Second World War.)
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Kamal Ram

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 12th May, 1944 as Sepoy in the 3rd Battalion, 8th Punjab Regiment, British Indian Army, during World War II.)
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John Keefer Mahony

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 22nd May, 1944 as Major in The Westminster Regiment, Canadian Army, (Canadian Infantry Corps) during the Second World War.)
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David Lord

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 19th September 1944 as Flight Lieutenant of the No. 271 Squadron RAF during the Second World War. Posthumously awarded.)
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George Allan Mitchell

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 23rd\u201324th January, 1944 as Private of the Gordon Highlanders during the Second World War. Posthumously awarded.)
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Andrew Mynarski

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 12th June, 1944 as Warrant Officer of the No. 419 Squadron during the Second World War. Posthumously awarded.)
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Frank Jefferson

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 16th May 1944 as Fusilier of the Lancashire Fusiliers\tduring the Second World War.)
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Nand Singh

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place from the 11th to the 12th of March 1944 as Acting Naik of the Sikh Regiment during the Second World War.)
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Netrabahadur Thapa

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 25th\u201326th June, 1944 as Acting Subadar of the 5th Gurkha Rifles during the Second World War.)
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Bhandari Ram

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 22nd November, 1944 as Sepoy of the 10th Baluch Regiment during the Second World War.)
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Gerard Norton

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 31st August 1944 as Lieutenant of the Kaffrarian Rifles during the Second World War.)
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Robert Anthony Maurice Palmer

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 23th December, 1944 as Squadron Leader serving in 109 Squadron, during the Second World War. Posthumously awarded.)
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Ram Sarup Singh

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 25th October, 1944 as Acting Subadar of the 1st Punjab Regiment during the Second World War. Posthumously awarded.)
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Lionel Queripel

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 19th September, 1944 as Captain of the 10th Parachute Battalion during the Second World War. Posthumously awarded.)
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Maurice Albert Windham Rogers

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 3rd June, 1944 as sergeant in the Second Battalion, The Wiltshire Regiment, British Army, during the Battle of Anzio in the Second World War. Posthumously awarded.)
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John Niel Randle

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 4th-6th May, 1944 as Captain of the Royal Norfolk Regiment during the Second World War. Posthumously awarded.)
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William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 8th-9th February, 1944 as Major of the Grenadier Guards, British Army, during the Second World War.)
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Ernest Smith

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 21st-22nd October, 1944 as Private of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division during the Second World War.)
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Sefanaia Sukanaivalu

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 23rd June, 1944 as Corporal of the Fiji Infantry Regiment during the Second World War. Posthumously awarded.)
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Sher Bahadur Thapa

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 18\u201319th September 1944 as Rifleman of the 9th Gurkha Rifles during the Second World War. Posthumously awarded.)
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Thaman Gurung

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 10th November, 1944 as Rifleman in the 1st Battalion, 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles, in the Indian Army during World War II. Posthumously awarded.)
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Hanson Turner

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 6th-7th June, 1944 as Acting Sergeant of the West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own) during the Second World War. Posthumously awarded.)
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Richard Wakeford

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 13th May, 1944 as Captain of the Hampshire Regiment during the Second World War.)
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Tasker Watkins

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 16th August, 1944 as Lieutenant of the Welsh Regiment, during the Second World War.)
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Tul Bahadur Pun

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on June 23rd, 1944 as Rifleman of the 6th Gurkha Rifles during the Second World War.)
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John Pennington Harman

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 8\u20139 April 1944 as Lance Corporal of the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment during the Second World War. Posthumously awarded)
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Yeshwant Ghadge

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 10th July, 1944 as Naik of the Maratha Light Infantry during the Second World War. Posthumously awarded.)
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Umrao Singh

(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 15\u201316th December 1944 as Havildar of the 81st West African Division during the Second World War.)