NEWS ON THE VICTORIA CROSS

Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO - 4th Dragoon Guards

"IN THE NEWS"

Announcing the award, sale, loans and donations of Victoria Crosses ( since 1998 )

		JAMES ASHWORTH VC VC AWARDED 2013	VICTOR CRUTCHLEY VC LOANED 2012
WILLIAM TRAYNOR VC SOLD 2012	PETER GILL VC SOLD 2012	FREDERICK HALL VC ACQUIRED BY CWM 2012	DANIEL KEIGHRAN VC VC AWARDED 2012
SYDNEY GODLEY VC SOLD 2012	ARTHUR CROSS VC SOLD 2012	JOHN YOUNG VC VC ACQUIRED 2012	PATRICK DONOHOE VC VC LOCATION 2011
DAVID RUSHE VC LOANED 2011	EDWARD KENNA VC SOLD 2011	ARTHUR MAYO VC HISTORY 2011	GEORGE GROGAN VC LOAN 2011
CHARLES GRANT VC SOLD 2011	GEORGE HOWELL VC SOLD 2011	BENJAMIN ROBERTS-SMITH VC MG AWARDED / DONATED 2011	SHEESH MAHAL MUSEUM FEB 2011
DEREK SEAGRIM VC LOANED 2010	THOMAS NEELY VC SOLD 2010	DONALD BELL VC SOLD 2010	HENRY DALZIEL VC SOLD 2010
HENRY HARTIGAN VC HISTORY 2010	LEO CLARKE VC CWM ACQUIRED 2010	JOHN MAHONY VC CWM ACQUIRED 2010	RICHARD FITZGERALD VC HISTORY 2010
JOHN WHITTLE VC ON DISPLAY 2010	JOHN KNOX VC SOLD 2010	JOHN WOOD VC LOCATION 2010	ADRIAN CARTON DE WIART VC HISTORY 2010
NORMAN HOLBROOK VC LOANED 2009	GEORGE HENDERSON VC RELOCATED 2009	WILLIAM REID VC SOLD 2009	DAVID JONES VC DONATED 2009
JOSEPH TOMBS VC LOCATED 2009	ROBERT SHANKLAND VC SOLD 2009	MARK DONALDSON VC AWARDED A VC 2009	HENRY PITCHER VC PRESENTED 2009
JAMES COLVIN VC VC EXHIBITION	JAMES OSBORNE VC VC DESTROYED	JOHN SMITH VC HISTORY	HERBERT JAMES VC MC SOLD 2008
PATRICK PORTEOUS VC MEDALS SOLD 2008	WILLIAM JACKSON VC SOLD 2008	GEORGE INGRAM VC MM SOLD 2008	PETER BADCOE VC SOLD 2008
BILL APIATA VC VC GIFTED 2008	GEORGE HINCKLEY VC 'COPY' VC SOLD 2008	JOSEPH BRENNAN VC SOLD 2008	JOSEPH WOODALL VC LOAN I.W.M. 2007
EUGENE ESMONDE VC DSO LOAN I.W.M. 2007	WILLIAM ANDERSON VC LOAN I.W.M. 2007	THOMAS ESMONDE VC LOAN I.W.M. 2007	WILLIAM RATCLIFFE VC MM LOAN I.W.M. 2007
JOHN CUNNINGHAM VC LOAN I.W.M. 2007	JOHN BARRETT VC DONATED 2007	JOHN CARLESS VC BEQUEATHED	BRYAN BUDD VC LOANED 2007
HERBERT HENDERSON VC ACQUISITION 2007	BILL APIATA VC AWARDED 2007	KEITH PAYNE VC SOLD 2007	HENRY HAVELOCK-ALLAN MISSING 2007
J FORBES-ROBERTSON VC LOANED 2007	BRYAN BUDD VC AWARDED 2006	BERNARD GORDON VC MM SOLD 2006	WILLIAM MARINER VC SOLD 2006
CHARLES UPHAM VC & BAR SOLD 2006	ALFRED SHOUT VC MC SOLD 2006	EDWARD MOTT VC DCM LOCATED 2006	DAVID HAWKES VC LOCATED 2006
JACK MANTLE VC LOANED 2006	FREDERICK PALMER VC MM LOANED 2006	UPPER CANADA COLLEGE LOANED 2006	GEORGE MITCHELL VC DONATED 2006
FREDERICK BOOTH VC DCM MYSTERY 2006	CHARLES MULLINS VC LOANED 2006	JAMES ALLEN WARD VC LOANED 2006	WILLIAM MERRIFIELD VC DONATED 2005
FRANCIS SCRIMGER VC DONATED 2005	DANIEL LAIDLAW VC DONATED 2005	DIGHTON PROBYN VC SOLD 2005	LEONARD KEYWORTH VC DONATED 2005
ROBERT KELLS VC SOLD 2005	JOHNSON BEHARRY VC AWARDED 2005	JAMES TOWERS VC SOLD 2005	ARTHUR TISDALL VC SOLD 2005
FREDERICK TOPHAM VC SAVED 2005	ARTHUR MOORE VC SOLD 2004	FILIP KONOWAL VC RECOVERED 2004	EDWARD UNWIN VC LOANED 2004
THEODORE WRIGHT VC DONATED 2004	FRAMLINGHAM COLLEGE LOANED 2004	ARTHUR WILSON VC DONATED 2004	MICHAEL ALLMAND VC DONATED 2003
WILLIAM CHASE VC DONATED 2003	THOMAS RICKETTS VC DONATED 2003	FREDERICK HOLMES VC SOLD 2003	TOM ADLAM VC LOANED 2003
JOE MAXWELL VC MC DCM LOANED 2003	ROBERT GRIEVE VC LOANED 2003	CHRISTOPHER BUSHELL VC DONATED 2003	CHARLES HUDSON VC DSO MC DONATED 2003
GORDON FLOWERDEW VC LOANED 2003	GRAHAM LYALL VC DONATED 2002	SHER SHAH VC SOLD 2002	NELSON CARTER VC DONATED 2002
HARRY GREENWOOD VC DSO MC DONATED 2002	CHARLES PYE VC DONATED 2001	JAMES CRICHTON VC DONATED 2001	SAMUEL MEEKOSHA VC SOLD 2001
ERIC BELL VC DONATED 2001	GEORGE KERR VC MC MM DONATED 2000	ARTHUR POULTER VC DONATED 1999	WILLIAM METCALF VC MM DONATED 1998

LANCE CORPORAL JAMES ASHWORTH VC - 1st Bn, Grenadier Guards
- 18 March 2013
ADMIRAL SIR VICTOR CRUTCHLEY VC KCB - Royal Navy
- 6 February 2013
SERGEANT WILLIAM TRAYNOR VC - 2nd Bn, West Yorkshire Regiment
- 13 December 2012
LIEUTENANT PETER GILL VC - Ludhiana Regiment
- 22 November 2012
COMPANY SERGEANT MAJOR FREDERICK HALL VC - 8th Bn, Manitoba Regiment, CEF
- 8 November 2012
CORPORAL DANIEL KEIGHRAN VC - 6th Bn, Royal Australian Regiment
- 31 October 2012
PRIVATE SYDNEY GODLEY VC - 4th Bn, Royal Fusiliers
- 19 July 2012
PRIVATE ARTHUR CROSS VC MM - 40th Bn, Machine Gun Corps
- 19 April 2012
CHIEF SKIPPER JOSEPH WATT VC - Royal Naval Reserve
- 19 April 2012
PRIVATE JOHN FRANCIS YOUNG VC - 87th Bn, Quebec Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force
- 29 February 2012
PRIVATE PATRICK DONOHOE VC - 9th ( Queen's Royal ) Lancers
- 4 October 2011
REGIMENTAL SERGEANT MAJOR DAVID RUSHE VC - 9th ( Queen's Royal ) Lancers
- 23 September 2011
PRIVATE EDWARD KENNA VC - 2 / 4th ( New South Wales ) Infantry Bn, Australian Imperial Force
- 28 July 2011
MIDSHIPMAN ARTHUR MAYO VC - Royal Navy & Indian Navy ( Naval Brigade )
- 1 July 2011
BRIGADIER GENERAL GEORGE GROGAN VC CB CMG DSO & Bar - Worcestershire Regiment, Comd 23rd Infantry Brigade
- May 2011
COLONEL CHARLES GRANT VC - 12th Regiment ( 2nd Burma Battalion ), Madras Infantry, Indian Army
- 21 April 2011
STAFF SERGEANT GEORGE HOWELL VC MM - 1st Bn ( New South Wales ), AIF
- 8 April 2011
CORPORAL BENJAMIN ROBERTS-SMITH VC, MG - Australian Special Air Service Regiment
- 23 January 2011
SHEESH MAHAL COLLECTION, PATIALA, PUNJAB, INDIA
- 10 February 2011
LIEUTENANT COLONEL DEREK SEAGRIM VC - Comd 7th Bn, The Green Howards
- 20 December 2010
LANCE SERGEANT THOMAS NEELY VC - 8th Bn, King's Own ( Royal Lancaster ) Regiment
- 25 November 2010
T / 2ND LIEUTENANT DONALD BELL VC - 9th Bn, The Yorkshire Regiment
- 25 November 2010
PRIVATE HENRY DALZIEL VC - 15th ( Queensland & Tasmania ) Bn, AIF
- 25 November 2010
SERGEANT HENRY HARTIGAN VC - 9th ( Queen's Royal ) Lancers
- 28 September 2010
CORPORAL LIONEL ( LEO ) CLARKE VC - 2nd Bn, Eastern Ontario Regiment, CEF
- 11 June 2010
MAJOR JOHN KEEFER MAHONY VC - The Westminster Regiment ( Motor )
- 11 June 2010
GUNNER RICHARD FITZGERALD VC - Bengal Horse Artillery
- 2 June 2010
SERGEANT JOHN WHITTLE VC DCM - 12th Bn, ( South Australia, Western Australia & Tasmania ) AIF
- 5 May 2010
MAJOR JOHN KNOX VC - Scots ( Fusilier ) Guards & The Rifle Brigade
- 22 April 2010
COLONEL JOHN AUGUSTUS WOOD VC - 20th Bombay Native Infantry
- 15 February 2010
LIEUTENANT GENERAL SIR ADRIAN CARTON DE WIART VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO - 4th Dragoon Guards
- 22 January 2010
COMMANDER NORMAN HOLBROOK VC - Royal Navy ( HM Submarine B.11 )
- 11 December 2009
CAPTAIN GEORGE HENDERSON DSO & BAR, MC - 2nd Bn, The Manchester Regiment
- 14 December 2009
FLIGHT LIEUTENANT WILLIAM REID VC - Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
- 19 November 2009
SERGEANT DAVID JONES VC - 12th Bn, King's ( Liverpool ) Regiment
- 3 November 2009
CORPORAL JOSEPH TOMBS VC - 1st Bn, King's ( Liverpool ) Regiment
- 24 June 2009
LIEUTENANT COLONEL ROBERT SHANKLAND VC DCM - 43rd Bn, Manitoba Regiment, CEF
- 25 May 2009
TROOPER MARK DONALDSON VC - Australian Special Air Service Regiment
- 16 January 2009
CAPTAIN HENRY PITCHER VC - 1st Punjab Native Infantry
- 10 January 2009
COLONEL JAMES COLVIN VC - Bengal Sappers & Miners
- 2 December 2008
PRIVATE JAMES OSBORNE VC - 2nd Bn, Northamptonshire Regiment
- 20 November 2008
SERGEANT JOHN SMITH VC - Bengal Sappers and Miners
- 30 October 2008
MAJOR HERBERT JAMES VC MC - 4th Bn, Worcestershire Regiment
- 26 June 2008
COLONEL PATRICK PORTEOUS VC - Royal Artillery & No. 4 Commando
- 12 June 2008
PRIVATE WILLIAM JACKSON VC - 17th Bn ( New South Wales ), Australian Imperial Force
- 28 April 2008
CAPTAIN GEORGE INGRAM VC MM - 24th Bn ( Victoria ) Australian Imperial Force
- 27 May 2008
MAJOR PETER BADCOE VC - Australian Army Training Team, Vietnam
- 20 May 2008
CORPORAL BILL APIATA VC - 1st New Zealand Special Air Service Group
- 24 April 2008
QUARTERMASTER GEORGE HINCKLEY VC - Royal Navy ( Naval Brigade )
- 21 March 2008
SERGEANT JOSEPH BRENNAN VC - Royal Regiment of Artillery
- 22 January 2008
REAR ADMIRAL CHARLES LUCAS VC - Royal Navy
- 20 December 2007
LANCE SERGEANT JOSEPH WOODALL VC - 1st Bn, The Rifle Brigade
- 1 November 2007
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER EUGENE ESMONDE VC DSO - 825 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm
- 1 November 2007
LIEUTENANT COLONEL WILLIAM ANDERSON VC - comd 12th Bn, Highland Light Infantry
- 1 November 2007
LIEUTENANT THOMAS ESMONDE VC - 18th Regiment ( Royal Irish Regiment )
- 1 November 2007
PRIVATE WILLIAM RATCLIFFE VC MM - 2nd Bn, South Lancashire Regiment
- 1 November 2007
PRIVATE JOHN CUNNINGHAM VC - 2nd Bn, Prince of Wales Leinster Regiment
- 1 November 2007
LIEUTENANT JOHN CRIDLAN BARRETT VC - 1 / 5th Bn, Leicestershire Regiment
- 25 October 2007
ORDINARY SEAMAN JOHN HENRY CARLESS VC - Royal Navy ( HMS 'Caledon' )
- 20 October 2007
CORPORAL BRYAN BUDD VC - 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment
- 10 August 2007
TROOPER HERBERT HENDERSON VC - Rhodesia Horse, South African Forces
- 31 July 2007
CORPORAL BILL APIATA VC - 1st New Zealand Special Air Service Group
- 02 July 2007
WOII KEITH PAYNE VC - Australian Army Training Team, Vietnam
- 20 June 2007
LIEUTENANT GENERAL SIR HENRY HAVELOCK-ALLAN VC GCB - 10th Regiment ( Lincolnshire Regiment )
- 10 April 2007
BRIGADIER GENERAL JAMES FORBES-ROBERTSON VC, DSO & Bar, MC - Comd 1st Bn, The Border Regiment
- 5 January 2007
CORPORAL BRYAN BUDD VC - 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment
- 14 December 2006
LANCE CORPORAL BERNARD GORDON VC MM - 41st Bn ( Queensland ) Australian Imperial Force
- 28 November 2006
PRIVATE WILLIAM MARINER VC - 2nd Bn, King's Royal Rifle Corps
- 23 November 2006
CAPTAIN CHARLES UPHAM VC & BAR - 20th Bn ( Canterbury Regiment ) 2nd NZEF
- 16 November 2006
CAPTAIN ALFRED SHOUT VC MC - 1st ( New South Wales ) Bn, Australia Imperial Force
- 24 July 2006
SERGEANT EDWARD MOTT VC DCM - 1st Bn, The Border Regiment
- 14 July 2006
PRIVATE DAVID HAWKES VC - 2nd Bn, The Rifle Brigade
- 14 July 2006
LEADING SEAMAN JACK MANTLE VC - HMS Foylebank, Royal Navy
- 15 June 2006
LANCE SERGEANT FREDERICK PALMER VC MM - 22nd Bn, Royal Fusiliers
- 01 June 2006
COLONEL ALEXANDER DUNN VC & MAJOR HAMPDEN COCKBURN VC
- 30 May 2006
PRIVATE GEORGE MITCHELL VC - London Scottish ( Gordon Highlanders )
- 15 March 2006
CAPTAIN FREDERICK BOOTH VC, DCM - British South Africa Police, att'd Rhodesia Native Regiment
- 14 March 2006
MAJOR CHARLES MULLINS VC - Imperial Light Horse ( Natal ), South African Forces
- 7 March 2006
SERGEANT JAMES ALLEN WARD VC - 75 Squadron ( RAF ), RNZAF
- 3 March 2006
SERGEANT WILLIAM MERRIFIELD VC MM - 4th Battalion, 1st Central Ontario Regiment, CEF
- 21 November 2005
LIEUTENANT COLONEL FRANCIS SCRIMGER VC - Canadian Army Medical Corps ( att'd Royal Montreal Regiment ( 14th Bn ))
- 17 October 2005
PIPER DANIEL LAIDLAW VC - 7th Bn, King's Own Scottish Borderers
- 25 September 2005
GENERAL SIR DIGHTON PROBYN VC - 2nd Punjab Cavalry, Indian Army
- 23 September 2005
LANCE CORPORAL LEONARD KEYWORTH VC - 24th ( County of London ) Bn, London Regiment ( The Queen's ) T.F.
- 28 July 2005
LANCE CORPORAL ROBERT KELLS VC - 9th Lancers
- 22 July 2005
PRIVATE JOHNSON BEHARRY VC - 1st Bn, Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
- 27 April 2005
PRIVATE JAMES TOWERS VC - 2nd Bn, The Cameronians ( Scottish Rifles )
- 7 April 2005
SUB LIEUTENANT ARTHUR TISDALL VC - R.N.V.R., Anson Battalion, Royal Naval Division
- 29 March 2005
CORPORAL FREDERICK TOPHAM VC - 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, Canadian Forces
- 6 February 2005
LIEUTENANT ARTHUR MOORE VC - 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry, Indian Army
- 17 September 2004
CAPTAIN EDWARD UNWIN VC - Royal Navy
- 03 August 2004
CAPTAIN THEODORE WRIGHT VC - 57th Field Regiment, Corps of Royal Engineers
- 29 June 2004
FRAMLINGHAM COLLEGE VCs
- 23 April 2004
A / CORPORAL FILIP KONOWAL VC - 47th Canadian Infantry Battalion, CEF
- 6 April 2004
ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET SIR ARTHUR KNYVET WILSON VC - Royal Navy ( Royal Naval Brigade )
- 6 February 2004
CAPTAIN MICHAEL ALLMAND VC - 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles
- 21 November 2003
COLONEL WILLIAM CHASE VC - 28th Bombay Native Infantry, Indian Army
- 23 November 2003
SERGEANT THOMAS RICKETTS VC - 1st Bn, Royal Newfoundland Regiment
- 22 October 2003
CORPORAL FREDERICK HOLMES VC - 2nd Bn, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
- 03 October 2003
COLONEL TOM ADLAM VC - 7th Bn, Bedforshire Regiment
- 27 September 2003
LIEUTENANT JOSEPH MAXWELL VC, MC & BAR, DCM - 18th Bn, ( New South Wales ) AIF
- 19 August 2003
CAPTAIN ROBERT GRIEVE VC - 37th Bn, ( Victoria ) AIF
- 31 July 2003
LIEUTENANT COLONEL CHRISTOPHER BUSHELL VC, DSO - comd 7th Bn, Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment
- 09 June 2003
MAJOR GENERAL CHARLES HUDSON VC, CB, DSO & BAR, MC - comd 11th Bn, The Sherwood Foresters
- 28 May 2003
LIEUTENANT GORDON FLOWERDEW VC - Lord Strathcona's Horse, CEF
- 03 February 2003
COLONEL GRAHAM LYALL VC - 102nd Bn, 2nd Central Ontario Regiment, CEF
- 07 December 2002
LANCE NAIK SHER SHAH VC - 16th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army
- 14 November 2002
COMPANY SERGEANT MAJOR NELSON CARTER VC - 12th Bn, The Royal Sussex Regiment
- 16 September 2002
LIEUTENANT COLONEL HARRY GREEENWOOD VC, DSO & BAR, MC - comd 9th Bn, King's Own Yorkshire L.I.
- 17 July 2002
SERGEANT MAJOR CHARLES PYE VC - 53rd Regiment ( King's Shropshire Light Infantry )
- 30 June 2001
PRIVATE JAMES CRICHTON VC - 2nd Bn, ( Auckland Regiment ) NZEF
- 30 June 2001
CORPORAL SAMUEL MEEKOSHA VC - 6th Bn, West Yorkshire Regiment
- 03 May 2001
CAPTAIN ERIC BELL VC - 9th Bn, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
- 25 February 2001
CAPTAIN GEORGE KERR VC, MC & BAR, MM - 1st Central Ontario Regiment, CEF
- 14 November 2000
PRIVATE ARTHUR POULTER VC - 4th Bn, Duke of Wellington's ( West Riding ) Regiment
- 18 August 1999
LANCE CORPORAL WILLIAM METCALF VC, MM - Canadian Scottish Regiment ( Princess Mary's )
- 01 December 1998
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