Victoria Cross
The following members of the regiment were awarded the Victoria Cross in the Great War:
- 2nd Lt Rupert Price Hallowes
- 2nd Lt Arthur James Terence Fleming-Sandes
- Capt The Rev Edward Noel Mellish
- Lt Geoffrey St George Shillington Cather
- Lt Eugene Paul Bennett
- 2nd Lt George Edward Cates
- Lt Donald John Dean
- Lt Col Bernard William Vann
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Famous quotes containing the words victoria and/or cross:
“The men who are grandfathers should be the fathers. Grandpas get to do it right with their grandchildren.”
—Anonymous Grandparent. As quoted in Women and Their Fathers, by Victoria Secunda, ch. 2 (1992)
“In ancient times—’twas no great loss—
They hung the thief upon the cross:
But now, alas!—I say’t with grief—
They hang the cross upon the thief.”
—Anonymous. “On a Nomination to the Legion of Honour,” from Aubrey Stewart’s English Epigrams and Epitaphs (1897)