Lancashire Fusiliers - Victoria Crosses

Victoria Crosses

The following members of the Regiment were awarded the Victoria Cross:

  • Captain (Temporary Major) Cuthbert Bromley, Great War
  • Serjeant Frank Edward Stubbs, Great War
  • Lance-Corporal (later Lieutenant-Colonel) John Elisha Grimshaw, Great War
  • Captain (later Major) Richard Raymond Willis, Great War
  • Serjeant Alfred Joseph Richards, Great War
  • Private (later Lance-Sergeant) William Stephen Keneally, Great War
  • Private John Lynn, Great War
  • Private (later Corporal) James Hutchinson, Great War
  • Captain (Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) Bertram Best-Dunkley, Great War
  • Serjeant Joseph Lister, Great War
  • Second Lieutenant Bernard Matthew Cassidy, Great War
  • Temporary Second Lieutenant John Schofield, Great War
  • Lance-Corporal Joel Halliwell, Great War
  • Lance-Sergeant (later Lieutenant) Edward Benn Smith, Great War
  • Acting Sergeant Harold John Colley, Great War
  • Private Frank Lester, Great War
  • Sergeant (later Regimental Sergeant-Major) James Clarke, Great War
  • Acting Lieutenant-Colonel James Neville Marshall, Great War
  • Fusilier (later Lance-Corporal) Francis Arthur Jefferson, Second World War

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