Home Calendar Date of action 1917 Date of action: 1917 174 Victoria Crosses won in 1917.
← 1916 All years 1918 → January 1917 Thomas Mottershead 7 January 1917 Sergeant, 20 Squadron Royal Flying Corps · First World War Edward Elars Delaval Henderson 25 January 1917 Lieutenant Colonel, North Staffordshire Regiment attached and commanding 9th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment · First World War Robert Edwin Phillips 25 January 1917 Lieutenant, 13th Battalion. (attached 9th Service Battn). Royal Warwickshire Regiment · First World War Edward John Mott 27 January 1917 Sergeant, 1st Battalion. Border Regiment · First World War February 1917 Henry William Murray 5 February 1917 Captain, 13th Battalion. * Australian Imperial Force · First World War Frederick Charles Booth 12 February 1917 Sergeant, British South African Police attchd Rhodesia Native Infantry · First World War Gordon Campbell 17 February 1917 Commander, Royal Navy · First World War Frederick William Palmer 17 February 1917 Lance Sergeant, 22nd Battalion. Royal Fusiliers · First World War Thomas Steele 22 February 1917 Sergeant, 1st. Battalion. Seaforth Highlanders · First World War George Wheeler 23 February 1917 Major, 9th Gurkha Rifles · First World War John Readitt 25 February 1917 Private, 6th Battalion. South Lancashire Regiment · First World War March 1917 Jack White 7 March 1917 Private, King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) · First World War George Edward Cates 8 March 1917 Second Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion The Rifle Brigade. (Prince Consort's Own) · First World War Oswald Austin Reid 10 March 1917 Captain (later Major), 1st Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment attached tom the 6th Battn. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment · First World War Archibald Bissett Smith 10 March 1917 Lieutenant, Royal Naval Reserve · First World War Christopher Augustus Cox 13 March 1917 Private, 7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment · First World War Frank Hubert Mcnamara 20 March 1917 Lieutenant, 1 Squadron Australian Flying Corps · First World War Percy Herbert Cherry 26 March 1917 Captain, 26th Battalion (Queensland and Tasmania) Australian Imperial Force · First World War Frederick Maurice Watson Harvey 27 March 1917 Lieutenant, Lord Strathcona's Horse, CEF · First World War April 1917 Jorgan Christian Jensen 2 April 1917 Private, 50th Battalion (South Australia). Australian Imperial Force · First World War Frederick William Lumsden 4 April 1917 Major, Royal Marine Artillery · First World War William Gosling 5 April 1917 Sergeant, Third Wessex Brigade, Royal Field Artillery · First World War Thomas Bryan 9 April 1917 Lance-Corporal, 25th (S) Battalion, The Northumberland Fusiliers · First World War Harry Cator 9 April 1917 Sergeant, 7th Battalion East Surrey Regiment · First World War Thomas James Bede Kenny 9 April 1917 Privates Second, Battalion (New South Wales) Australian Imperial Force · First World War William Johnstone Milne 9 April 1917 Private, 16th Battalion. Canadian Scottish. Canadian Expeditionary Force · First World War Thain Wendell Macdowell 9 April 1917 Captain, 38th Ottawa Battalion. Eastern Ontario Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force · First World War Ellis Welwood Sifton 9 April 1917 Lance-Sergeant, 18th Battalion. Western Ontario Regiment. Canadian Expeditionary Force · First World War John George Pattison 10 April 1917 Private, 50th Battalion. Canadian Infantry · First World War Horace Waller 10 April 1917 Private, 10th Service Battalion. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry · First World War John Whittle 10 April 1917 Sergeant, 12th Battalion, AIF · First World War Donald Mackintosh 11 April 1917 Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion. Seaforth Highlanders · First World War Harold Sandford Mugford 11 April 1917 Lance-Corporal, 8th Squadron. Machine-Gun Corps · First World War John Cunningham 12 April 1917 Corporal, 2nd Battalion, Prince of Wales Leinster Regiment · First World War James Newland 14 April 1917 Captain, 12th Battalion, AIF · First World War John William Ormsby 14 April 1917 Sergeant, 2nd Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry · First World War Charles Pope 15 April 1917 Lieutenant, 11th Battalion. * Australian Imperial Force · First World War Ernest Sykes 19 April 1917 Private, 27th (Service) Battalion. Northumberland Fusiliers · First World War Charles Melvin 21 April 1917 Private, 2nd Battalion The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) · First World War John Reginald Noble Graham 22 April 1917 Lieutenant, 9th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders attached to 136th Company, Machine-Gun Corps · First World War Arthur Henderson 23 April 1917 Captain, 4th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and attached to 2nd Battalion · First World War David Philip Hirsch 23 April 1917 Captain, 4th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment. (Princess Alexandra of Wales' Own) · First World War Edward Foster 24 April 1917 Corporal, 13th Battalion, East Surrey Regiment · First World War Albert Ball 25 April 1917 Temp. Captain, No. 56 Squadron RFC · First World War Edward Brooks 28 April 1917 Company Sergeant-Major, 2nd/4th Battalion The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry · First World War Reginald Leonard Haine 29 April 1917 2nd Lieutenant (later Lieutenant Colonel), 1st Battalion Honourable Artillery Company · First World War Alfred Oliver Pollard 29 April 1917 Second Lieutenant, 1st Battalion. Honourable Artillery Company · First World War James Welch 29 April 1917 Lance Corporal, Princess Charlotte of Wales's (Royal Berkshire Regiment) · First World War William Sanders 30 April 1917 Lieutenant, HMS Prize · First World War May 1917 Robert Grierson Combe 3 May 1917 Lieutenant, 27th Battalion. The Manitoba Regiment. CEF · First World War John Harrison 3 May 1917 Second Lieutenant, 11th (Service) Battalion. East Yorkshire Regiment · First World War George Jarratt 3 May 1917 Corporal, 8th Battalion. Royal Fusilier · First World War Michael Heaviside 6 May 1917 Private, 15th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry · First World War George Julian Howell 6 May 1917 Corporal, 1st Battalion (New South Wales) Australian Imperial Force · First World War Tom Dresser 12 May 1917 Private, 7th Battalion. Yorkshire Regiment (Alexandra, Princess of Wales' Own) · First World War Rupert Thomas Vance Moon 12 May 1917 Lieutenant, 58th Battalion. * Australian Imperial Force · First World War Joseph Watt 15 May 1917 Skipper, Royal Naval Reserve · First World War Albert White 19 May 1917 Sergeant, South Wales Borderers · First World War June 1917 William Avery Bishop 2 June 1917 Captain, Canadian Cavalry and 60 Squadron of The Royal Flying Corps · First World War Thomas Harold Broadbent Maufe 4 June 1917 Second Lieutenant, 124th Siege Battery. Royal Garrison Artillery · First World War John Craig 5 June 1917 Second Lieutenant, Royal Scots Fusiliers · First World War Samuel Frickleton 7 June 1917 Lance-Corporal, 3rd Battalion 3rd New Zealand (Rifle) Brigade · First World War Robert Cuthbert Grieve 7 June 1917 Captain, 37th Battalion (Victoria), Australian Imperial Force · First World War Ronald Neil Stuart 7 June 1917 Lieutenant, Royal Naval Reserve · First World War William Williams 7 June 1917 Seaman, Royal Naval Reserve · First World War John Carroll 12 June 1917 Private, 33rd Battalion (New South Wales) Australian Imperial Force · First World War William Ratcliffe 14 June 1917 Private, 2nd Battalion. South Lancashire Regiment · First World War John Spencer Dunville 25 June 1917 Second Lieutenant, 1st Royal Dragoons · First World War Frank Wearne 28 June 1917 Second Lieutenant, Essex Regiment · First World War July 1917 Clifford Coffin 6 July 1917 Brigadier-General, Corps of Royal Engineers, Commanding the 25th Infantry Brigade · First World War Frederick Youens 7 July 1917 Second Lieutenant, 13th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry · First World War Thomas Barratt 27 July 1917 Private, 7th Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment · First World War Harold Ackroyd 31 July 1917 Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps, attached 6th Battn., Royal Berkshire Regiment · First World War Leslie Wilton Andrew 31 July 1917 Corporal, 2nd Battalion Wellington Infantry Regiment NZEF · First World War Robert James Bye 31 July 1917 Sergeant, 1st Battalion. Welsh Guards · First World War James Llewellyn Davies 31 July 1917 Corporal, 13th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers · First World War Bertram, BEST- Dunkley 31 July 1917 Lieutenant Colonel, Commanding 2nd/ 5th Battalion. Lancashire Fusiliers · First World War Alexander Edwards 31 July 1917 Sergeant, 1st/6th Battalion. Seaforth Highlanders · First World War Thomas Riversdale. COLYER- Fergusson 31 July 1917 Captain, 2nd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment · First World War Dennis George Wyldebore Hewitt 31 July 1917 Second Lieutenant, 14th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment · First World War Tom Fletcher Mayson 31 July 1917 Lance-Sergeant, 1st/4th Battalion. King's Own Regiment · First World War George Imlach Mcintosh 31 July 1917 Private, 1st/ 6th Battalion. Gordon Highlanders · First World War Ivor Rees 31 July 1917 Sergeant, 11th Battalion. South Wales Borderers · First World War Thomas Whitham 31 July 1917 Private, Coldstream Guards · First World War August 1917 James McCudden 1 August 1917 Temp. Captain, No. 56 Squadron RFC · First World War William Boynton Butler 6 August 1917 Private, 17th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment attached 106th Battery · First World War Charles George Bonner 8 August 1917 Lieutenant, Royal Naval Reserve · First World War Ernest Herbert Pitcher 8 August 1917 Petty Officer, Royal Navy · First World War Arnold Loosemore 11 August 1917 Private, 8th Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment · First World War Thomas Crisp 15 August 1917 Skipper, Royal Naval Reserve · First World War Harry Brown 16 August 1917 Private, 10th Battalion Quebec Regiment, C E F · First World War Edward Cooper 16 August 1917 Sergeant, 12 Battalion. The King's Royal Rifle Corps · First World War Wilfred Edwards 16 August 1917 Private (later Captain), 7th Battalion. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry · First World War William Henry Grimbaldeston 16 August 1917 Company Quartermaster Sergeant, 1st Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers · First World War Frederick George Room 16 August 1917 Private, 2nd Battalion. Royal Irish Regiment · First World War Michael James O'Rourke 17 August 1917 Private, 7th Battalion. British Columbia Regiment. Canadian Expeditionary Force · First World War Frederick Hobson 18 August 1917 Sergeant, 20th Battalion, 1st Central Ontario Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force · First World War Okill Massey Learmonth 18 August 1917 Major, 2nd Battalion. Eastern Ontario Regiment. Canadian Expeditionary Force · First World War John Skinner 18 August 1917 Company Sergeant-Major, 1st Battalion. King's Own Scottish Borderers · First World War Robert Hill Hanna 21 August 1917 Company Sergeant-Major, 29th Battalion, British Columbia Regiment · First World War Harry Falconer Parsons 21 August 1917 Second Lieutenant, 14th (Service) Battalion. Gloucestershire Regiment · First World War Filip Konowal 24 August 1917 Corporal, 47th Battalion. British Columbia Regiment. Canadian Expeditionary Force · First World War Sidney James Day 26 August 1917 Corporal, 11th Battalion the Suffolk Regiment (Norwich) · First World War September 1917 John Carmichael 8 September 1917 Sergeant, 9th Battalion The North Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales) · First World War John Moyney 13 September 1917 Lance-Sergeant, 2nd Battalion. Irish Guards · First World War Thomas Woodcock 13 September 1917 Private, Irish Guards · First World War William Francis Burman 20 September 1917 Sergeant, 16th Battalion. The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) · First World War Hugh Colvin 20 September 1917 Second Lieutenant, 9th Battalion. The Cheshire Regiment · First World War Ernest Albert Egerton 20 September 1917 Corporal, 16th Battalion. Sherwood Foresters. (Notts and Derby Regiment.) · First World War William Henry Hewitt 20 September 1917 Lance-Corporal, 2nd South African Light Infantry · First World War Alfred Joseph Knight 20 September 1917 Sergeant, 2nd/8th Battalion *. London Regiment · First World War Montagu Shadworth Seymour Moore 20 September 1917 Second Lieutenant, 15th Battalion. Hampshire Regiment · First World War Henry Reynolds 20 September 1917 Captain, 12th Battalion. Royal Scots · First World War Frederick Birks 21 September 1917 Second Lieutenant, 6th Battalion Australian Imperial Force · First World War Reginald Roy Inwood 22 September 1917 Private, 10th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force. (South Australia) · First World War John James Dwyer 26 September 1917 Sergeant (later Lieutenant, 4th Company, Machine-Gun Corps · First World War John Brown Hamilton 26 September 1917 Lance-Corporal, 1st/9th Battalion, Highland Light Infantry · First World War Patrick Joseph Bugden 28 September 1917 Private, 31st Battalion (Queensland and Victoria) Australian Imperial Force · First World War October 1917 Philip Bent 1 October 1917 Temp. Lieutenant Colonel, Leicestershire Regiment · First World War Charles Harry Coverdale 4 October 1917 Sergeant, 11th Battalion, Manchester Regiment · First World War Lewis Pugh Evans 4 October 1917 Lieutenant Colonel, The Black Watch, Commanding the 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment · First World War Fred Greaves 4 October 1917 Corporal, 9th Battalion. Sherwood Foresters. (Notts and Derby Regiment) · First World War Arthur Hutt 4 October 1917 Private, 1st/7th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment · First World War Lewis Mcgee 4 October 1917 Sergeant, 14th Battalion * Australian Imperial Force · First World War James Ockenden 4 October 1917 Sergeant, 1st Battalion The Royal Dublin Fusiliers · First World War Walter Peeler 4 October 1917 Lance-Corporal, 3rd Pioneer Battalion. Australian Imperial Force · First World War Clement Robertson 4 October 1917 Captain, Special Reserve, Tank Corps · First World War Thomas Henry Sage 4 October 1917 Private, 8th Battalion. Somerset Light Infantry · First World War William Clamp 9 October 1917 Corporal, 6th Battalion. The Yorkshire Regiment (Alexandra, Princess of Wales' Own) · First World War Frederick George Dancox 9 October 1917 Private, 4th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment · First World War Joseph Lister 9 October 1917 Sergeant, 1st Battalion. Lancashire Fusiliers · First World War John Molyneux 9 October 1917 Sergeant, 2nd Battalion Royal Fusiliers · First World War John Harold Rhodes 9 October 1917 Lance-Sergeant, 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards · First World War Albert Halton 12 October 1917 Private, 1st Battalion, King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment · First World War Clarence Smith Jeffries 12 October 1917 Captain, 34th Battalion. (New South Wales). Australian Imperial Force · First World War Thomas William Holmes 26 October 1917 Private, 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles, 2nd Central Ontario Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force · First World War Christopher Patrick John O'Kelly 26 October 1917 Captain, 52nd Battalion. Manitoba Regiment. Canadian Expeditionary Force · First World War Robert Shankland 26 October 1917 Lieutenant, 43rd Battalion. Manitoba Regiment. Canadian Expeditionary Force · First World War Alexander Malins Lafone 27 October 1917 Major, 1st/1st County of London Yeomanry · First World War Cecil John Kinross 30 October 1917 Private, 49th Battalion. Alberta Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force · First World War George Harry Mullin 30 October 1917 Sergeant (later Major), Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, Eastern Ontario Regiment. CEF · First World War Hugh Mckenzie 30 October 1917 Lieutenant, 7th Company. Canadian Machine-Gun Corps. Canadian Expeditionary Force · First World War John Collins 31 October 1917 Corporal, 25th Battalion. The Royal Welch Fusiliers · First World War George Randolph Pearkes 31 October 1917 Major, 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion. * Canadian Expeditionary Force · First World War November 1917 Colin Fraser Barron 6 November 1917 Corporal, 3rd Battalion 1st Central Ontario Regiment (Toronto Regiment) C E F · First World War James Peter Robertson 6 November 1917 Private, 27th Battalion. Manitoba Regiment. * Canadian Expeditionary Force · First World War John Fox Russell 6 November 1917 Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps · First World War Arthur Drummond Borton 7 November 1917 Lieutenant Colonel, Commanding 2/22nd Battalion (County of London) · First World War John Henry Carless 17 November 1917 Ordinary Seaman, Royal Navy · First World War Robert Mcbeath 20 November 1917 Lance-Corporal, 1st/5th Battalion. Seaforth Highlanders · First World War Albert Edward Shepherd 20 November 1917 Private, 12th Service Battalion. King's Royal Rifle Corps · First World War John Sherwood-Kelly 20 November 1917 Lieutenant Colonel, Norfolk Regiment · First World War Charles Edward Spackman 20 November 1917 Sergeant, 1st Battalion. Border Regiment · First World War Harcus Strachan 20 November 1917 Lieutenant, Fort Garry Horse. Canadian Expeditionary Force · First World War Richard William Leslie Wain 20 November 1917 Captain, 'A' Battalion. Tank Corps · First World War Samuel Thomas Dickson Wallace 20 November 1917 Lieutenant, 'C' Battery. Royal Field Artillery · First World War John Mcaulay 27 November 1917 Sergeant, 1st Battalion, Scots Guards · First World War George William Burdett Clare 29 November 1917 Private, 5th Lancers (Royal Irish) · First World War Neville Bowes Elliott-Cooper 30 November 1917 Lieutenant Colonel, commanding the 8th Battalion. The Royal Fusiliers · First World War Robert Gee 30 November 1917 Captain, 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers · First World War Gobind Singh 30 November 1917 Lance, -Dafadar* 28th Light Cavalry, and attached to 2nd Lancers, Indian Army · First World War Cyril Edward Gourley 30 November 1917 Sergeant, 'D' Battery, 276th (West Lancs.). Brigade, Royal Field Artillery · First World War Allastair Malcolm Cluny Mcready-Diarmid 30 November 1917 Captain, 17th (Service) Battalion Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) · First World War Walter Napleton Stone 30 November 1917 Captain, 3rd Battalion. * Royal Fusiliers · First World War John Thomas 30 November 1917 Lance-Corporal, 2nd/5th Battalion. North Staffordshire Regiment · First World War December 1917 Stanley Henry Parry Boughey 1 December 1917 Second Lieutenant, 1/4th Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers · First World War George Henry Tatham Paton 1 December 1917 Captain, 4th Battalion. Grenadier Guards · First World War Arthur Moore Lascelles 3 December 1917 Captain, 3rd Battalion. Durham Light Infantry. (attached to 14th Battalion) · First World War Henry James Nicholas 3 December 1917 Private, First Battalion Canterbury Infantry Regiment. New Zealand Expeditionary Force · First World War James Samuel Emerson 6 December 1917 Second Lieutenant, 9th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers · First World War Charles William Train 8 December 1917 Corporal, 2nd/14th Battalion. * London Regiment (London Scottish) · First World War Walter Mills 11 December 1917 Private, 1st/ 10th Battalion. Manchester Regiment · First World War John Alexander Christie 22 December 1917 Lance-Corporal, 1st/ 11th Battalion (County of London) The London Regiment. (Finsbury Rifles) · First World War James Duffy 27 December 1917 Private, 6th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers · First World War
