Awards & Winners

Joseph Petrus Hendrik Crowe

Date of Birth 12-January-1826
Place of Birth Uitenhage, Eastern Cape
(Eastern Cape, Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality)
Nationality United Kingdom, South Africa
Profession Soldier
Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Petrus Hendrik Crowe VC was the second South African-born 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. He was however the second South African recipient of the Victoria Cross, the first recipient was born abroad, arriving in South Africa as a young child.

Awards by Joseph Petrus Hendrik Crowe

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1857


Victoria Cross
(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 12 August 1857 as Lieutenant of the 78th Regiment of Foot during the Indian Mutiny.)