The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest military decoration, awarded for valour and devotion to duty in the face of the enemy to members of the armed forces, regardless of rank. Up to two bars may be awarded in recognition of further acts of gallantry. 

Below are VC recipients of World War 1, and where to find their citations in The Gazette.

VCs of 1914

Issue 28976, 13/11/1914

• Francis Octavius Grenfell
• Douglas Reynolds
• Theodore Wright
• Maurice James Dease
• Harry Sherwood Ranken
• George Thomas Dorrell
• David Nelson
• Charles Ernest Garforth
• Charles Alfred Jarvis

Issue 28980, 17/11/1914

• John Henry Stephen Dimmer

Issue 28983, 20/11/1914

• William Fuller

Issue 28985, 24/11/1914

• Sidney Frank Godley
• Job Henry Charles Drain Frederick Luke
• Charles Allix Lavington Yate
• Frederick William Holmes
• Edward Kinder Bradbury
• William Henry Johnston
• Ernest George Harlock

Issue 28998,04/12/1914

• George Wilson

Issue 28999, 04/12/1914

• Naik Darwan Sing Negi
• Sepoy Khudadad

Issue 29001, 08/12/1914

• Spencer John Bent
• Frederick William Dobson

Issue 29005, 11/12/1914

• Walter Lorrain Brodie

Issue 29015, 22/12/1914

• Norman Douglas Holbrook
• James Leach
• John Hogan

VCs of 1915

Issue 29037, 08/01/1915

• Thomas Edward Rendle

Issue 29074, 16/02/1915

• Ernest Wright Alexander
• William Kenny
• James Anson Otho Brooke
• John Franks Vallentin
• Frank Alexander de Pass
• Henry Howey
• James Mackenzie
• Philip Neame
• Abraham Acton
• James Smith
• Michael O’Leary
• (Clasp – Arthur Martin Leake)

Issue 29123, 09/04/1915

• Henry Peel Ritchie

Issue 29135, 16/04/1915

• Edward Barber
• Wilfred Dolby Fuller
• Cyril Gordon Martin
• Henry May
• Ross Tollerton

Issue 29146, 27/04/1915

• Harry Daniels
• Cecil Reginald Noble
• William Buckingham
• Jacob Rivers
• Gobar Sing Negi

Issue 29169, 21/05/1915

• Edward Courtney Boyle

Issue 29170, 21/05/1915

• William Anderson
• Edward Dwyer
• Robert Morrow
• William Barnard Rhodes – Moorhouse
• Geoffrey Harold Woolley

Issue 29189, 11/06/1915

• Reginald Alexander John Warneford

Issue 29202, 22/06/1915

• Charles Hotham Montagu Doughty-Wylie
• Garth Neville Walford
• Francis Alexander Caron Scrimger
• George Rowland Patrick Roupell
• Frederick William Hall
• Douglas Walter Belcher
• Frederick Fisher
• William Mariner

Issue 29206, 25/06/1915

• Martin Eric Nasmith

Issue 29210, 29/06/1915

• John George Smyth
• Jemadar Mir Dast
• William Angus
• Frederick Barter
• David Finlay
• John Lynn
• John Ripley
• Charles Sharpe
• James Upton
• Edward Warner

Issue 29215, 02/07/1915

• Leonard James Keyworth

Issue 29240, 23/07/1915

• Eustace Jotham
• George Raymond Dallas Moor
• Albert Jacka
• Joseph Tombs

Issue 29264, 13/08/1915

• Edward Unwin
• Wilfred St. Aubyn Malleson
• George Leslie Drewry
• William Chas. Williams
• George McKenzie Samson

Issue 29272, 24/08/1915

• John Fitzhardinge Paul Butler
• Charles Calveley Foss
• John Aidan Liddell
• Frederick William Campbell
• William Cosgrove
• Issy Smith

Issue 29273, 24/08/1915

• Raymond Willis
• Alfred Richards
• William Keneally
• Lanoe George Hawker

Issue 29281, 31/08/1915

• George Godfrey Massy Wheeler
• Gerald Robert O’Sullivan
• George Arthur Boyd Rochfort
• Herbert James
• James Somers

Issue 29286, 03/09/1915

• Sidney Clayton Woodroffe

Issue 29289, 07/09/1915

• William Thomas Forshaw

Issue 29312, 01/10/1915

• Percy Howard Hansen
• Alfred Potts

Issue 29328, 15/10/1915

• Alfred John Shout
• William John Symons
• Frederick Harold Tubb
• Hugo Vivian Hope Throssell
• Cyril Royston Guyton Bassett
• Alexander Stewart Burton
• John Hamilton
• Leonard Keysor
• Benjamin Handley Geary

Issue 29342, 26/10/1915

• Oliver Brooks

Issue 23971, 16/11/1915

• Angus Falconer Douglas-Hamilton
• Ankstell Montray Read
• George Allan Maling
• Aurthur James Terence
• Rupert Price Hallowes
• Frederick Henry Johnson
• Alexander Buller Turner
• Charles Geoffrey Vickers
• Harry Wells
• John Cranshaw Raynes
• James Dalgleish Pollock
• George Harry Wyatt
• Robert Dunsire
• Samuel Harvey
• Daniel Laidlaw
• George Peachment
• Arthur Vickers
• Kulbir Thapa

Issue 29394, 07/12/1915

• James Lennox Dawson
• Thomas Kenny

Issue 29414, 21/12/1915

• Wilbur Dartnell
• Gilbert Stuart Martin Insall

VCs of 1916

Issue 29447, 21/01/1916

• Alfred Alexander Burt
• Alfred Drake
• Samuel Meekosha

Issue 29496, 03/03/1916

• Alfred Victor Smith
• Charles Shoeing-Smith Hull
• Harry Christian

Issue 29527, 28/03/1916

• Arthur Forbes Gordon Kilby
• Eric Archibald McNair
• Arthur Frederick Saunders
• William Richard Cotter
• Henry Kenny
• William Young

Issue 29530, 31/03/1916

• Arthur Waldene

Issue 29555, 18/04/1916

• Edward Noel Mellish

Issue 29579, 12/05/1916

• Lance Naik Lala

Issue 29633, 20/06/1916

• John Alexander Sinton
• Sepoy Chatta Singh

Issue 29695, 04/08/1916

• Arthur Hugh Batten-Pooll
• John Leslie Green
• Richard Basil Brandram Jones
• Lionel Wilmot Brabazon Rees
• George William Chafer
• John Erskine
• William Hackett
• Arthur Herbert Procter
• George Stringer

Issue 29735, 05/09/1916

• William Leefe Robinson

Issue 29740, 08/09/1916

• Stewart Walter Loudoun-Shand
• Adrian Carton de Wiart
• Geoffrey St. George Shillington Cather
• Arthur Seaforth Blackburn
• Donald Simpson Bell
• Nelson Victor Varter
• George Sanders
• William Frederick Faulds
• James Hutchinson
• William Jackson
• John Leak
• William Frederick McFadzean
• James Miller
• Martin O’Meara
• Robert Quigg
• Walter Ritchie
• William Short
• Thomas George Turrall
• Theodore William Henry Veale

Issue 29751, 15/09/1916

• Edward Barry Stewart Bingham
• Francis John William Harvey

Issue 29752, 15/09/1916

• John Travers Cornwell

Issue 29765, 26/09/1916

• William Robert Fountaine Addison
• Edward Felix Baxter
• Eric Norman Frankland Bell
• Angus Buchanan
• Edgar Kinghorn Myles
• Thomas Ords Lawder Wilkinson
• Claude Charles Castleton
• Joseph Davies
• Sidney William Ware
• James Henry Fynn
• Albert Hill
• Naik Shahamad Khan

Issue 29802, 24/10/1916

• John Vaughan Campbell
• William La Touche Congreve
• William Barnsley Allen
• Noel Godfrey Chavasse
• Archie Cecil Thomas White
• John Vincent Holland
• Gabriel George Coury
• William Ewart Boulter
• Albert Gill
• David Jones
• David Jones
• Fred McNess
• Leo Clarke
• Thomas Hughes
• Thomas Alfred Jones
• John Chipman Kerr

Issue 29836, 24/11/1916

• Rolands Boys Bradford
• Tom Edwin Adlam
• Henry Kelly
• Robert Downie
• James Young Turnball
• Frederick Jeremiah Edwards
• Robert Ryder

Issue 29866, 15/12/1916

• Barnard Cyril Freyberg
• Herbert William Lewis

Issue 29885, 29/12/1916

• William Anderson Bloomfield
• Eugene Paul Bennett

VCs of 1917

Issue 29901, 12/01/1917

• John Cunningham
• David Ross Lauder

Issue 29928, 02/02/1917

• Humphry Osbaldeston Brooke Firman
• Charles Henry Cowley

Issue 29937, 09/02/1917

• Thomas Mottershead

Issue 29972, 06/03/1917

• Loftus William Jones

Issue 29978, 09/03/1917

• Henry William Murray
• Edward John Mott

Issue 29985, 13/03/1917

• Cuthbert Bromley
• Frank Edward Stubbs

Issue 30008, 03/04/1917

• Frederick William Palmer

Issue 30029, 20/04/1917

• Gordon Campbell

Issue 30064, 24/04/1917

• Percy Herbert Cherry
• George Edward Cates
• Christopher Cox

Issue 30122, 08/06/1917

• Edward Elers Delavel Henderson
• Frederick William Lumsden
• George Campbell Wheeler
• Thain Wendell MacDowell
• James Ernest Newlands
• Oswald Austin Reid
• Albert Ball
• Frederick Maurice Watson Harvey
• Frank Hubert McNamara
• Robert Edwin Phillips
• Charles Pope
• Reginald Leonard Haine
• Alfred Oliver Pollard
• Frederick Charles Booth
• Harry Cator
• John William Ormsby
• John Woods Whittle
• Ellis Welwood Sifton
• Thomas Steele
• John Cunningham
• George Jarratt
• Thomas Bryan
• Michael Heaviside
• Jorgan Christian Jensen
• Thomas James Bede Kenny
• William Johnstone Milne
• Ernest Sykes
• Horace Waller

Issue 30130, 12/06/1917

• Rupert Vance Moon
• David Philip Hirsch
• John Harrison
• Donald Forrester Brown
• William Gosling

Issue 30147, 22/06/1917

• William Edward Sanders
• Walter Richard Parker

Issue 30154, 26/06/1917

• Robert Grierson Combe
• Edward Brooks
• Albert White
• Edward Foster
• George Julian Howell
• James Welch
• Tom Dresser
• Jack White

Issue 30167, 03/07/1917

• Arthur Henderson
• John Readitt

Issue 30194, 20/07/1917

• Ronald Neil Stuart
• William Williams

Issue 30215, 31/07/1917

• Robert Cuthbert Grieve
• John Manson Craig
• John Spencer Dunville
• Thomas Harold Broadbent Maufe
• Frank Bernard Wearne
• Frederick Youens
• Samuel Frickleton
• John Carroll
• John George Pattison
• William Ratcliffe

Issue 30228, 10/08/1917

• William Avery Bishop

Issue 30258, 28/08/1917

• Joseph Watt

Issue 30272, 04/09/1917

• Harold Ackroyd
• Bertram Best-Dunkley
• Thomas Riversdale Colyer-Fergusson
• Robert Bye
• Leslie Wilton Andrew
• James Llewellyn Davies
• Thomas Barratt
• George McIntosh
• Thomas Witham

Issue 30284, 14/09/1917

• (Bar to the VC) Noel Godfrey Chavasse
• Clifford Coffin
• Reginald Noble Graham
• Denis George Wyldbore Hewitt
• Edward Cooper
• Alexander Edwards
• William H Grimbaldeston
• Ivor Rees
• John Skinner
• Tom Fletcher Mayson
• Wilfred Edwards
• Arnold Loosemore

Issue 30338, 16/10/1917

• Hardy Falconer Parsons
• John Carmichael
• Frederick Hobson
• John Moyney
• Sidney James Day
• Frederick G Room
• Harry Brown
• William Boynton Butler
• Thomas Woodcock

Issue 30363, 30/10/1917

• Charles George Bonner
• Thomas Crisp

Issue 30372, 08/11/1917

• Okill Massey Learmouth
• Henry Reynolds
• Frederick Birks
• Hugh Colvin
• Montagu Shadworth Seymour Moore
• Robert Hanna
• Alfred Joseph Knight
• James Ockenden
• Michael James O’Rourke

Issue 30400, 23/11/1917

• Lewis Pugh Evans
• William Francis Burman
• John James Dwyer
• Joseph Lister
• Lewis McGee
• John Molyneux
• John Harold Rhodes
• Ernest Albert Egerton
• Fred Greaves
• Filip Konowal
• William Henry Hewitt
• Harold Mugford
• Walter Peeler
• Patrick Bugden
• George Dancox
• Albert Halton
• John Brown Hamilton
• Arthur Hutt
• Reginald Roy Inwood
• Charles Melvin

Issue 30433, 14/12/1917

• Arthur Drummond Borton
• Alexander Malius Lafone
• Clarence Smith Jeffries
• Robert Shankland
• Henry Strachan
• Clement Robertson
• Harry Coverdale
• John Collins
• Thomas Henry Sage

VCs of 1918

Issue 30471, 08/01/1918

• John Sherwood Kelly
• George Randolph Pearkes
• John Fox Russell
• Robert Gee
• Christopher Patrick John O’Kelly
• Philip Eric Bent
• Arthur Moore Lascalles
• John McAulay
• George Harry Mullin
• Charles Edward Spackman
• Colin Barron
• Robert McBeath
• George William Clare
• Thomas William Holmes
• Cecil John Kinross
• Henry James Nicholas
• James Peter Robertson
• Dafadar Gobind Singh

Issue 30523, 12/02/1918

• Neville Bowes Elliott-Cooper
• Hugh Mackenzie
• George Henry Tatham Paton
• Walter Napleton Stone
• Richard William Leslie Wain
• Samuel Thomas Dickson Wallace
• Stanley Henry Parry Boughey
• James Samuel Emerson
• Cyril Edward Gourley
• Walter Mills
• Albert Edward Shepherd
• John Thomas

Issue 30548, 26/02/1918

• Charles William Train
• John Alexander Christie
• James Duffy

Issue 30578, 12/03/1918

• Allastair Malcolm Cluny McReady-Diarmid

Issue 30604, 29/03/1918

• James Byford McCudden

Issue 30619, 05/04/1918

• Charles Graham Robertson

Issue 30648, 23/04/1918

• John Stanhope Collings-Wells
• Reginald Frederick Johnson Hayward
• Gordon Muriel Flowerdew

Issue 30663, 30/04/1918

• Alan Jerrard
• Alan Arnett McLeod

Issue 30667, 30/04/1918

• Christopher Bushell
• William Herbert Anderson
• Bernard Matthew Cassidy
• Stanley Robert McDougall
• Herbert George Columbine

Issue 30675, 07/05/1918

• Oliver Cyril Spencer Watson
• Frank Cowther Roberts
• Alfred Maurice Toye
• Harold Jackson
• Richard George Masters
• Harold Whitfield

Issue 30687, 14/05/1918

• John Henry Carless

Issue 30697, 21/05/1918

• James Forbes-Robertson
• Thomas Tannatt Pryce
• Basil Arthur Horsfall
• John Crawford Buchan
• John Thomas Davies
• Charles Edwin Stone
• Jack Thomas Counter

Issue 30726, 31/05/1918

• Eric Stuart Dougall
• Cecil Leonard Knox
• Ernest Frederick Beal
• Arthur Henry Cross
• Thomas Young

Issue 30733, 04/06/1918

• Percy Valentine Storkey
• Alfred Cecil Herring
• Albert Mountain

Issue 30757, 18/06/1918

• Robert Edward Cruickshank
• Karanbahadur Rans

Issue 30770, 25/06/1918

• Julian Royds Gribble
• Manley Angell James
• George Burdon McKean
• Joseph Henry Collin
• John Schofield
• John Crowe
• William Gregg
• Joseph Edward Woodall
• James Hewitson
• William Beesley
• Arthur Poulter

Issue 30790, 09/07/1918

• Charles Edward Hudson
• Theodore Bayley Hardy
• William King Sadlier
• William Ruthven

Issue 30807, 19/07/1918

• Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter
• Richard Douglas Sandford
• Percy Thompson Dean
• Edward Bamford
• Norman Augustus Finch
• Albert Edward McKenzie

Issue 30811, 23/07/1918

• George William St. George Grogan
• John Scott Youll

Issue 30849, 16/08/1918

• Philip Davey
• Walter Ernest Brown
• Thomas Leslie Axford
• Henry Dalziel

Issue 30870, 27/08/1918

• Geoffrey Heneage Drummond
• Roland Bourke
• Victor Alexander Charles Crutchley

Issue 30900, 13/09/1918

• Harold Auten

Issue 30903, 13/09/1918

• Albert Borella
• John Meikle
• Joseph Kaeble

Issue 30922, 24/09/1918

• James Edward Tait
• John Brilliant
• Raphael Louis Zengel
• Herman James Good
• Frederick George Coppins
• Alexander Brereton
• John Berard Croak
• Percy Clyde Statton
• Richard Charles Travis

Issue 30967, 18/10/1918

• Thomas James Harris
• Samuel Forsyth
• Edward Smith
• Harold John Colley
• James Richardson

Issue 30970, 22/10/1918

• David Ferguson Hunter

Issue 30975, 25/10/1918

• David Lowe MacIntyre
• Robert Spall
• Harry Garnet Bedford Miner
• Thomas Dinesen

Issue 30982, 29/10/1918

• Richard Annesley West
• Cecil Harold Sewell
• Alfred Edward Gaby
• George Prowse
• Walter Simpson
• Reginald Stanley Judson
• Samuel Needham

Issue 30999, 05/11/1918

• Ferdinand Maurice Felix West

Issue 31012, 12/11/1918

• Cyrus Wesley Peck
• Daniel Marcus William Beak
• Charles Smith Rutherford
• William Allison White
• Laurence Calvert
• Harry John Laurent
• Arthur George Knight
• Henry Weale
• Alfred Wilcox
• Ernest Seaman
• William Henry Metcalf
• Hugh McIver
• Jack Harvey James Crichton

Issue 31021, 19/11/1918

• Account – Gordon Campbell
• Account – William Edward Sanders
• Account – Ronald Neil Stuart
• Account – Charles George Bonner
• Account – Thomas Crisp
• Account – Harold Auten

Issue 31034, 26/11/1918

• John Standish Surtees Predergast Vereker
• Cyril Hubert Frisby
• William Donovan Joynt
• John Gilroy Grant
• Thomas Norman Jackson
• Wilfred Wood
• Ressaidar Badlu Singh

Issue 31042, 29/11/1918

• William George Barker
• Andrew Weathersby Beauchamp-Proctor

Issue 31067, 13/12/1918

• William Hew Clark-Kennedy
• Daniel Burges
• Bernard William Vann
• Bellenden Seymour Hutcheson
• David Stuart McGregor
• John Cridlan Barrett
• Graham Thomson Lyall
• Edgar Thomas Towner
• Robert Vaughan Gorle
• Donald John Dean
• Lawrence Dominic McCarthy
• Frank Edward Young
• John Henry Williams
• William Henry Johnson
• William McNally
• Albert David Lowerson
• Gerald Sexton
• Harry Banshard Wood
• Thomas Neeley
• Louis McGuffie
• Arthur Charles Hall
• Alexander Henry Buckley
• George Onions
• Frank Lester
• Henry Tandey
• Robert Mactier
• John Francis Young
• Walter Leigh Rayfield
• Robert Matthew Beatham
• George Cartwright
• William Matthew Currey
• Claude Joseph Patrick Nunney

Issue 31082, 24/12/1918

• Harry Greenwood
• Blair Anderson Wark
• James Johnson
• James Palmer Huffam
• John O’Niell
• Roland Edward Elcock
• Lawrence Carthage Weathers
• Bernard Sidney Gordon
• William Edgar Holmes
• Martin Moffatt
• John Ryan
• James Park Woods

VCS of 1919

Issue 31108, 03/01/1919

• Dudley Graham Johnson
• John MacGregor
• George Fraser Kerr
• Milton Fowler Gregg
• Samuel Lewis Honey
• George Morby Ingram
• Joseph Maxwell
• James Kirk
• Thomas Caldwell
• John Clarke
• Horace Augustus Curtis
• Frederick Charles Riggs
• William Merrifield
• John Brunton Daykins
• William Harold Coltman
• Adam Archibald
• Norman Harvey
• Francis George Miles
• James Towers
• Alfred Wilkinson
• Thomas Ricketts

Issue 31155, 28/01/1919

• Brett MacKay Cloutman
• Coulson Norman Mitchell
• Wallace Lloyd Algie
• Martin Doyle
• Hugh Cairns
• William Waring
• James McPhie
• William Amey
• Allan Leonard Lewis

Issue 31178, 13/02/1919

• Arnold Horace Santo Waters
• John Neville Marshall

Issue 31236, 14/03/1919

• George Nicholson Bradford
• Arthur Leyland Harrison

Issue 31340, 13/05/1919

• George de Cardonne Elsmall Findlay
• Edward Donald Bellew
• Edmund de Wind

Issue 31354, 23/05/1919

• Geoffrey Saxton White
• Frederick Parslow
• Archibald Bisset Smith

Issue 31395, 06/06/1919

• Wilfred Elstob
• John William Sayer

Issue 31536, 02/09/1919

• Allan Ebenezer Ker
• William Arthur McCrae

Issue 31759, 27/01/1920

• George Evans

See also

Medals of World War 1