London Gazette: 1879

21 Victoria Crosses announced in 1879.

March 1879

  1. John Cook18 March 1879Captain, Bengal Staff Corps and 5th Gurkha Rifles · Second Afghan War

May 1879

  1. William Barnsley Allen2 May 1879Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps attached to 246th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery · First World War
  2. Gonville Bromhead2 May 1879Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion 24th Regiment (later South Wales Borderers) · Zulu War
  3. Nevill Josiah Aylmer Coghill2 May 1879Lieutenant, 1st Battalion 24th Regiment (South Wales Borderers) · Zulu War
  4. Frederick Hitch2 May 1879Private, 2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment. (Later South Wales Borderers) · Zulu War
  5. Alfred Henry Hook2 May 1879Private, 2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment. (Later South Wales Borderers) · Zulu War
  6. Robert Jones2 May 1879Private, 2nd Battalion 24th Regiment (later South Wales Borderers · Zulu War

June 1879

  1. Reginald Clare Hart10 June 1879Lieutenant, Corps of Royal Engineers · Second Afghan War
  2. Edward Stevenson Browne17 June 1879Lieutenant, 1st Battalion, 24th Regiment (the South Wales Borderers) · Zulu War
  3. Redvers Henry Buller17 June 1879Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, 60th Rifles (becoming The King's Royal Rifle Corps) · Zulu War
  4. William Knox Leet17 June 1879Major, 1st Battalion. 13th Regiment · Indian Mutiny
  5. James Henry Reynolds17 June 1879Surgeon Major, Army Medical Department · Zulu War
  6. Samuel Wassall17 June 1879Private, 80th Regiment · Zulu War
  7. Hans Garratt Moore27 June 1879Major, 88 Regiment · 9th Cape Frontier War

September 1879

  1. Walter Richard Pollock Hamilton1 September 1879Lieutenant, Bengal Staff Corps/Corps of Guides, Indian Army · Second Afghan War

October 1879

  1. Henry Cecil Dudgeon D'Arcy9 October 1879Captain, Cape Frontier Light Horse, South African Forces · Zulu War
  2. Edmund O'Toole9 October 1879Sergeant (later Captain), Cape Frontier Light Horse South African Forces · Zulu War
  3. Edmund O'Toole9 October 1879Sergeant (later Captain), Cape Frontier Light Horse South African Forces

November 1879

  1. James Langley Dalton17 November 1879Acting Assistant, Commissary. Commissariat and Transport Department · Zulu War
  2. Ferdnand Christian Scheiss29 November 1879Corporal, Natal Native Contingent. South African Forces

December 1879

  1. Edward Pemberton Leach6 December 1879Captain, Royal Engineers · Second Afghan War