Cemeteries And Memorials Where Vc’S Are Buried Or Commemorated Not On The Western Front
The purpose of this section of the website is to provide a guide and quick reference to those cemeteries and memorials where holders of the Victoria Cross are buried and commemorated. The Victoria Cross was instituted by Royal Warrant on 29th January 1856. The first act for which it was awarded occurred on 21st June 1854, when Mate (later Rear-Admiral) Charles Lucas threw a live shell into the seas to rescue his ship during a battle in the Baltic Sea. The latest award was posthumously to Sergeant Ian McKay, 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment who was killed in action during the Falklands War on 12 June 1982. A total of 1354 Victoria Crosses have been awarded including one to the American Unknown Warrior of the Great War who is buried in Arlington Cemetery. Three men have received bars to their Victoria Cross. Captain Noel Chavasse, Royal Army Medical Corps, won the Victoria Cross on the Somme in 1916 and during the Third Battle of Ypres in 1917 where he died of his wound; Surgeon-Captain Arthur Martin-Leake was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1902 for an act in the Boer War and Bar in 1914 near Ypres; Second Lieutenant Charles Upham won the Victoria Cross and Bar during campaigns in 1941 and 1942 in the Mediterranean (he was related to Noel Chavasse and died in 1995). In 1902 Edward VII approved the principle of the posthumous award and in 1911 George V authorised the award for the Indian Army.
Martin Hornby with Acknowledgement to Michael R. Scott.
More detail on the VC’s is available on the W.F.A. Military Fact Sheet No. 12
| Name | Rank | Unit | Bde | Div | Cemetery - Memorial |
| Badlu Singh | Ressaider | 14th Lancers (Scinde Horse) attd 29th Lancers (Deccan Horse), Indian Army | 8 Ind Cav | 1 Ind Cav | Heliopolis Memorial, Cairo |
| Boughey, S.H.P. | 2 Lieutenant | 1/4th Royal Scots Fusiliers | 155 | 52 | Gaza War Cemetery, Palestine |
| Bradford, G.N. | Lt-Cdr | HMS Iris II, RN | Blankenberge Communal, Belgium | ||
| Bromley, C. | T/Major | 1st Lancashire Fusiliers | 86 | 29 | Helles Memorial, Gallipoli |
| Brown, W.E., DCM & Bar | Sergeant | Royal Australian Infantry | Singapore Memorial | ||
| Burton, A.S. | Corporal | 7th Btn, (Victoria), A.I.F. | 2 Aust | 1 Aust | Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli |
| Butler, J.F.P., DSO | Captain | 2nd King's Royal Rifle Corps attd Pioneer Coy Z, Gold Coast Regt, West African Frontier Force | Morogoro Cemetery, Tanzania | ||
| Carless, J.H. | Ord'y Seaman | HMS Caledon, RN | Portsmouth Naval Memorial | ||
| Carter, H.A. | Major | 101st Grenadiers attd 40th Pathans, Indian Army | St Erth Churchyard, Cornwall | ||
| Cookson, E.C., DSO | Lt/Cdr | HMS Comet, RN | Amara War Cemetery, Iraq | ||
| Cornwell, J.T. | Boy, 1st Class | HMS Chester, RN | Manor Park Cemetery, London | ||
| Cowley, C.H. | Lt/Cdr | SS Julnar, RNVR | Basra Memorial, Iraq | ||
| Crisp, T., DSC | T/Skipper | HM Armed Smack Nelson, RNR | Chatham Naval Memorial | ||
| Dartnell, W.T. | T/Lieutenant | 25th Royal Fusiliers | 2 E Afr | 1 E Afr | Voi Cemetery, Kenya |
| Doughty-Wylie, C.H.M., CB CMG | Lt /Colonel | Royal Welsh Fusiliers attd HQ Mediterranean Expeditionary Force | V Beach Cemetery, Gallipoli | ||
| Drewry, G.L. | Lieutenant | HM Trawler William Jackson, RNR | City of London Cemetery, Manor Park, London | ||
| Elliott-Cooper, N.B., DSO MC | T/Lt Colonel | Comd 8th Royal Fusiliers | 36 | 12 | Hamburg Cemetery, Germany |
| Finlay, D. | Sergeant | 2nd Black Watch | 21 Ind | 7 Ind | Basra Memorial, Iraq |
| Firman, H.O.B. | Lieutenant | SS Julnar, RN | Basra Memorial, Iraq | ||
| Fynn, J.H. | Private | 4th South Wales Borderers | 40 | 13 | Basra Memorial, Iraq |
| Gribble, J.R. | T/Captain | 1st attd 10th Royal Warwickshires | 57 | 19 | Niederzwehren Cemetery, Germany |
| Harrison, A.L. | Lt/Cdr | HMS Lion, RN | Zeebrugge Memorial, Belgium | ||
| Harvey, F.J.W. | Major | HMS Lion, Royal Marines Light Infantry | Chatham Naval Memorial | ||
| Harvey, N. | CQMS | Corps of Royal Engineers | 109 | 36 | Khayat Beach War Cemetery, Israel |
| Henderson, E.E.D. | T/Lt Colonel | North Staffordshires attd 7th Btn aatd & Comd 9th Royal Warwickshires | 39 | 13 | Amara War Cemetery, Iraq |
| Horlock, E.G. | Bty-Sgt-Major | Royal Artillery Base Depot, Egypt | Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt | ||
| Jones, L.W. | Commander | HMS Shark, RN | Kviberg Cemetery, Sweden | ||
| Jothan, E. | Captain | 51st Sikhs (FF) attd North Waziristan Militia, Indian Army | 28 Ind | 10 Ind | Delhi Memorial, India |
| Keneally, W, | Sergeant | 1st Lancashire Fusiliers | 86 | 29 | Lancashire Landing Cemetery, Gallipoli |
| Kenna, P.A., DSO | Brig-General | T/Comd 2nd Mounted Division | 3 Mtd | 2 Mtd | Lala Baba Cemetery, Gallipoli |
| Lafone, A.M. | Major | 1/1st County of London (Middlesex Hussars) Yeomanry | 8 Mtd | Yeo Mtd | Beersheba War Cemetery, Israel |
| Liddell, J.A. | Captain | 3rd Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders & 7 Sqdn RFC | Basingstoke Old Cemetery | ||
| Lyall, G.T. | Colonel | Royal Army Ordnance Corps | Halfaya Sollum War Cemetery, Egypt | ||
| Martineau, H.R. | Lieutenant | Transport Service, 1 Otago Regt, N.Z.E.F. | 1 NZ | NZ | Dunedin, New Zealand |
| Maygar, L.C., DSO, VD | Lt Colonel | 8th Australian Light Horse, A.I.F. | 2 Aust LH | Imp Mtd | Beersheba War Cemetery, Israel |
| McKenzie, A.E. | Able Seaman | HMS Vindictive, RN | Camberwell (Forest Hill Road) Cemetery, London | ||
| McLeod, A.A. | 2 Lieutenant | 2 Sqdn RAF | Kildonan Cemetery, Winnipeg, Canada | ||
| McNair, E.A. | Captain | 9th Royal Sussex & Staff | Staglieno Cemetery, Italy | ||
| McNamara, F.H. | Lieutenant; | No. 1 Squadron | Australian Flying Corps | A.I.F. | St Joseph's Priory, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, UK |
| Milbanke, Sir J.P. | Lt Colonel | 1/1st Nottingham Yeomanry | 3 Mtd | 2 Mtd | Helles Memorial, Gallipoli |
| Needham, S. | Private | 1/5th Bedfordshires | 162 | 54 | Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt |
| O'Sullivan, G.R. | Captain | 1st Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers | 87 | 29 | Helles Memorial, Gallipoli |
| Parslow, F.D. | Lieutenant | HM Horse Transport Anglo-Californian MM/RNR | Queenstown, Ireland | ||
| Pearse, S.G., MM | Sergeant | 45th Royal Fusiliers | Archangel Allied Cemetery, Russia | ||
| Rhodes-Moorhouse, W.B. | Lieutenant | 2 Sqdn RFC | Parnham House, Dorset | ||
| Roberts, (ltr Earl) F.S. | Field Marshall | Col Comd Royal Artillery & C in C Irish Guards | St Paul's Cathedral, London | ||
| Russell, J.F., MC | Captain | RAMC attd 1/6th Royal Welsh Fusiliers | 158 | 53 | Beersheba War Cemetery, Israel |
| Sanders, W.E., DSO | Lt/Cdr | HMS Prize, RNR | Plymouth Naval Memorial | ||
| Shout, A.J., MC | Captain | 1st Btn, (NSW) A.I.F. | 1 Aus | 1 Aus | Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli |
| Smith, A.V. | 2 Lieutenant | 1/5th East Lancashires | 126 | 42 | Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery, Gallipoli |
| Smith, A.B. | T/Lieutenant | SS Otaki, RNR | Tower Hill Memorial, London | ||
| Somers, J. | Sergeant | Royal Army Service Corps | Tipperary, Ireland | ||
| Stubbs, F.E. | Sergeant | 1st Lancashire Fusiliers | 86 | 29 | Helles Memorial, Gallipoli |
| Tisdall, A.W., St C. | Sub-Lieutenant | Anson Btn, RNVR | 2 RN | RN | Helles Memorial, Gallipoli |
| Walford, G.N. | Captain | Brigade-Major, Royal Artillery | 29 | V Beach Cemetery, Gallipoli | |
| Ware, S.W. | Corporal | 1st Seaforth Highlanders | 19 Ind | 7 Ind | Amara War Cemetery, Iraq |
| Warneford, R.A.J. | Flight Sub-Lt | 1 Sqdn RNAS, rn | Brompton Cemetery London | ||
| Watson, T.C. | Lt Colonel | Royal Engineers | Cremated London | ||
| Wheeler, G.G.M. | Major | 7th Hariana Lancers, Indian Army | 6 Ind Cav | Ind Cav in Mesop | Basra War Cemetery, Iraq |
| White, G.S. | Lt/Cdr | HM Submarine E14, RN | Portsmouth Naval Memorial | ||
| Williams, W.C. | Able Seaman | HMS Hussar attd SS River Clyde, RN | Portsmouth Naval Memorial | ||
| Yate, C.A.L. | Major | 2nd K.O.Y.L.I. | 13 | 5 | Berlin South Western Cemetery, Germany |
| Youll, J.S. | T/2 Lieutenant | 1st Northumberland Fusiliers attd 11th Btn | 68 | 23 | Giavera British Cemetery, Italy |
| Young, W. | Private | 8th East Lancashires | 112 | 37 | Preston (New Hall Lane) Cemetery, Lancashire |
