Victoria Cross
In total six members of the Norfolk or Royal Norfolk Regiment were awarded the Victoria Cross:
- Acting Lieutenant-Colonel John Sherwood-Kelly - at Battle of Cambrai while commanding Inniskilling Fusiliers
- Company Sergeant Major George Gristock - in Belgium during battle of France, subsequently dying of wounds sustained
- Captain John Niel Randle - in Far East, 1944
- Corporal Sidney Bates - 1st Bn, France 1944
- Captain David Jamieson - France, 1944
- Lieutenant George Arthur Knowland - attached No. 1 Commando, Burma 1945
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