Home Calendar Date of action 1916 Date of action: 1916 84 Victoria Crosses won in 1916.
← 1915 All years 1917 → January 1916 Chatta Singh 13 January 1916 Sepoy (later Havildar**), 9th Bhopal Infantry, Indian Army · First World War Lala 21 January 1916 Lance Naik, 41st Dogras · First World War John Alexander Sinton 21 January 1916 Captain, Indian Medical Service · First World War February 1916 Eric Archibald Mcnair 14 February 1916 Captain, 9th Service Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment · First World War March 1916 William Reginald Cotter 6 March 1916 Corporal, 6th Battalion, East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) · First World War George Stringer 8 March 1916 Private, 1st Battalion. Manchester Regiment · First World War Edward Noel Mellish 29 March 1916 Chaplain, A Captain, The Reverend. Army Chaplains Department · First World War April 1916 Angus Buchanan 5 April 1916 Captain, 4th Battalion. The South Wales Borderers · First World War Sidney William Ware 6 April 1916 Corporal, Corpora 1st Battalion. Seaforth Highlanders · First World War William Robert Fountains Addison 9 April 1916 The Reverend T/ Chaplain, of the Forces, 4th Class, Army Chaplain's Dept · First World War James Henry Fynn* 9 April 1916 Private, 4th Battalion, South Wales Borderers · First World War Edgar Kinghorn Myles 9 April 1916 Lieutenant, 8th Battalion. Welch Regiment · First World War Shahamad Khan 13 April 1916 Naik, 89th Punjab Regiment. Indian Army · First World War Edward Felix Baxter 18 April 1916 Second Lieutenant, 1st/8th Battalion the King's (Liverpool) Regiment · First World War Charles Henry Cowley 25 April 1916 Lieutenant Commander, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve · First World War Humphrey Osbaldston Brooke Firman 25 April 1916 Lieutenant, Royal Navy · First World War May 1916 Richard Jones 21 May 1916 Temp. Lieutenant, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment · First World War The Hon. Edward Barry Stewart Bingham 31 May 1916 Commander, Royal Navy · First World War John Travers Cornwell 31 May 1916 Boy First Class, Royal Navy · First World War Francis John William Harvey 31 May 1916 Major, Royal Marine Light Infantry · First World War Loftus Jones 31 May 1916 Commander, HMS Shark · First World War June 1916 George William Chafer 4 June 1916 Private, 1st Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment · First World War Arthur Herbert Procter 4 June 1916 Private, later The Reverend) 1/5th Battalion The King's (Liverpool) Regiment · First World War John Erskine 22 June 1916 Sergeant, 5th Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) · First World War William Hackett 23 June 1916 Sapper, 254th Tunneling Company. Corps of Royal Engineers · First World War Arthur Hugh Henry Batten-Pooll 25 June 1916 Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers · First World War William Jackson 25 June 1916 Private, 17th (New South Wales) Battalion, Australian Imperial Force · First World War James Hutchinson 28 June 1916 Private, 2nd/5th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers · First World War Nelson Victor Carter 30 June 1916 Company Sergeant Major, 12th Battalion. Royal Sussex Regiment · First World War July 1916 Eric Bell 1 July 1916 Temp. Captain, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers · First World War Geoffrey St George Shillington Cather 1 July 1916 Lieutenant, 9th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers · First World War John Leslie Green 1 July 1916 Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps, attached 1st Battalion, Sherwood Foresters. (Notts and Derby Regiment) · First World War Stewart Walker Loudoun-Shand 1 July 1916 Major, 10th Battalion. Yorkshire Regiment · First World War William Frederick Mcfadzean 1 July 1916 Private, 14th Battalion. Royal Irish Rifles · First World War Robert Quigg 1 July 1916 Private, Royal Irish Rifles · First World War Lionel Wilmot Brabazon Rees 1 July 1916 Captain, Royal Artillery and Royal Flying Corps · First World War Walter Potter Ritchie 1 July 1916 Drummer, 2nd Battalion. Seaforth Highlanders · First World War George Sanders 1 July 1916 Corporal, 1st/7th Battalion. West Yorkshire Regiment · First World War James Youll Turnbull 1 July 1916 Sergeant, 17th Battalion. Highland Light Infantry · First World War Adrian Carton De Wiart 3 July 1916 Lieutenant Colonel, 4th Dragoon Guards. (Royal Irish) attached to, and Commanding, the 8th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment · First World War Thomas George Turrall 3 July 1916 Private, 10th Battalion. Worcestershire Regiment · First World War Donald Simpson Bell 5 July 1916 Second Lieutenant, 9th Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment. (Alexandra, Princess of Wales' Own) · First World War Thomas Wilkinson 5 July 1916 Temp. Lieutenant, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment · First World War William Ewart Boulter 14 July 1916 Sergeant, 6th Battalion The Northamptonshire Regiment · First World War William Frederick Faulds 18 July 1916 Private, 1st Battalion, South African Infantry · First World War William La Touche Congreve 20 July 1916 Brevet Major, The Rifle Brigade. (Prince Consort's Own) · First World War Joseph John Davies 20 July 1916 Corporal, 10th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers · First World War Albert Hill 20 July 1916 Private, 10th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers · First World War Theodore William Henry Veale 20 July 1916 Private, 8th Battalion. Devonshire Regiment · First World War Arthur Seaforth Blackburn 23 July 1916 Second Lieutenant, 10th Battalion (S. A.) Australian Imperial Force · First World War John Leak 23 July 1916 Private, 9th Battalion *. Australian Imperial Force · First World War Thomas Cooke 25 July 1916 Private, 8th Battalion (Victoria) Australian Imperial Force · First World War Albert Gill 27 July 1916 Sergeant, 1st Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps · First World War Claude Charles Castleton 29 July 1916 Sergeant, 5th Machine Gun Corps, Australian Imperial Force · First World War George Evans 30 July 1916 Company Sergeant-Major, 18th Battalion, Manchester Regiment · First World War James Miller 31 July 1916 Private, 7th Battalion. Royal Lancaster Regiment · First World War August 1916 William Henry Short 6 August 1916 Private, 8th Battalion. Yorkshire Regiment · First World War Gabriel George Coury 8 August 1916 Second Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment * attached to the 1st/4th Battalion · First World War Noel Godfrey Chavasse 9 August 1916 Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps attchd 1/10th Battalion The King's (Liverpool) Regiment · First World War Martin O'Meara 12 August 1916 Private, 16th Battalion. * Australian Imperial Force · First World War William Anderson Bloomfield 24 August 1916 Captain, Scout Corps, 2nd South African Mounted Brigade · First World War September 1916 William Barnsley Allen 3 September 1916 Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps attached to 246th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery · First World War John Vincent Holland 3 September 1916 Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, Prince of Wales Leinster Regiment attached to 7th Battalion · First World War Thomas Hughes 3 September 1916 Private, 6th Battalion, Connaught Rangers · First World War David Jones 3 September 1916 Sergeant, King's (Liverpool Regiment) · First World War Leefe Robinson 3 September 1916 Lieutenant, No. 39 Squadron RFC · First World War Leo Clarke 9 September 1916 Corporal, 2nd Battalion. Eastern Ontario Regiment. C E F · First World War Donald Forrester Brown 15 September 1916 Sergeant, 2nd Battalion, Otago Infantry Regiment, N Z E F · First World War John Vaughan Campbell 15 September 1916 Lieutenant-Colonel, Comd. 3rd Battalion Coldstream Guards · First World War Frederick Mcness 15 September 1916 Lance-Sergeant, 1st Battalion. Scots Guards · First World War John Chipman Kerr 16 September 1916 Private, 49th Battalion. Alberta Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force · First World War Archie White 21 September 1916 Temp. Captain, Green Howards · First World War Thomas Alfred Jones 25 September 1916 Private, 1st Battalion. The Cheshire Regiment · First World War Frederick Jeremiah Edwards 26 September 1916 Private, 12th Battalion. Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) · First World War Robert Edward Ryder 26 September 1916 Private, 12th Battalion. Middlesex Regiment · First World War Tom Edwin Adlam 28 September 1916 Second Lieutenant, 7th Battn. The Bedfordshire Regiment · First World War October 1916 Roland Boys Bradford 1 October 1916 Lieutenant-Colonel, 9th Battalion the Durham Light Infantry · First World War Henry Kelly 4 October 1916 Temporary Lieutenant (later Major), 10th Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment. (West Riding) · First World War James Cleland Richardson 8 October 1916 Piper, 16th Battalion Manitoba Regiment (Canadian Scottish) C E F · First World War Robert Downie 23 October 1916 Sergeant, 2nd Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers · First World War Hubert William Lewis 23 October 1916 Private, 11th Battalion The Welch Regiment · First World War November 1916 Eugene Paul Bennett 5 November 1916 Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, The Worcestershire Regiment · First World War John Cunningham 13 November 1916 Private, 12th (S) Battalion The East Yorkshire Regiment · First World War Bernard Cyril Freyberg 13 November 1916 Lieutenant Colonel, Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment (Commanding Hood Battalion of the Royal Naval Division.) · First World War
