Victoria Crosses
The following members of the Regiment were awarded the Victoria Cross:
- Captain Reginald Frederick Johnson Hayward VC, MC & Bar: 1st Battalion—21/22 March 1918
- Sergeant Maurice Rogers VC, MM: 2nd Battalion—3 June 1944 (posthumous)
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