Victoria Cross Recipients
Soldiers of the Green Howards awarded the Victoria Cross (VC)
- Sergeant Alfred Atkinson, VC (18 February 1900)
- Corporal William Anderson, VC (12 March 1915)
- Second Lieutenant Ernest Frederick Beal, VC (22 March 1918)
- Second Lieutenant Donald Simpson Bell, VC (5 July 1916)
- Corporal William Clamp, VC (9 October 1917)
- Private Tom Dresser, VC (12 May 1917)
- Private Samuel Evans, VC (13 April 1855)
- Captain David Philip Hirsch, VC (9 April 1917)
- WOII Stanley Elton Hollis, VC (6 June 1944)
- Private John Lyons, VC (10 June 1855)
- Sergeant William McNally, VC MM and Bar (27 October – 29 October 1918)
- Lieutenant Colonel Derek Anthony Seagrim, VC (20 March – 21 March 1943)
- Major Stewart Walter Loudoun-Shand, VC (1 July 1916)
- Private William Short, VC (6 August 1916)
- Lieutenant William Basil Weston, VC (3 March 1945)
- Captain Archie Cecil Thomas White, VC MC (27 September – 1 October 1916)
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