Wars & Campaigns in Which the Victoria Cross Was Awarded -- 1854-1904

Edited by Stephen Herold


Campaign Date No. of VCs Won
Crimea & Baltic 1854-55 111
Persia 1856-57 3
Indian Mutiny 1857-59 182
China (inc. Taiping Rev.) 1860-62 8
New Zealand 1860-61 2
New Zealand 1863-66 13
Umbeyla (India) 1863 2
Japan 1864 3
Bhutan 1864-65 2
Canada1 1860 5
Abyssinia 1867-68 2
Looshai (India) 1871-71 1
Ashanti 1873-74 4
Perak 1875-76 1
Quetta (Beloochistan) 1877 1
Kaffir War (South Africa) 1877-78 1
Afghanistan 1878-80 16
Zululand 1879 23
Basutoland 1879 3
Naga Hills (India) 1879-80 1
South Africa (First Boer War) 1880-81 6
Basutoland 1881 3
Egypt & Sudan 1882 3
Egypt & Sudan 1884-85 5
Burma 1889 1
Manipur (India) 1891 1
Hunza-Nagar (India) 1891 3
Gambia (West Africa) 1892 1
Burma 1893 2
Chitral 1895 1
Matabeleland 1896 3
Punjab Frontier (India) 1897-98 11
Sudan (Khartoum) 1898 5
Crete 1898 1
South Africa (Second Boer War) 1899-1902 78
China (Boxer Rebellion) 1900 2
Ashanti 1900 2
Somaliland 1902-04 6
Nigeria 1903 1
Tibet 1904 1
TOTAL   522


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1 Not gained in action, but to Timothy O'Hea of the Rifle Brig. for putting the fire out in a burning ammunition train.

2 Not gained in action. Given for lifeboat work by Dr. Douglas and four men of the 24th Reg.who saved a trapped rescue mission through tremendous surf and waves.


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