Victoria Cross
The following members of the Regiment were awarded the Victoria Cross:
- Lieutenant (later Brigadier-General) Wallace Duffield Wright, Kano-Sokoto Expedition
- Captain (temporary Lieutenant Colonel, later Lieutenant-General) Bernard Cyril Freyberg, Great War
- 2nd Lieutenant (acting Captain) Clement Robertson, Great War
- Lance Corporal John William Sayer, Great War
- Captain (temporary Lieutenant Colonel) Christopher Bushell, Great War
- Lieutenant Alec George Horwood, Second World War
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