Links & Resources

Research resources (2026)

• Victoria Cross Trust — Charity restoring VC graves; searchable grave database and restoration news.
• VC Online (The Comprehensive Guide to the Victoria & George Cross) — Long-running database of every VC and GC recipient with biographies, grave and medal locations.
• Victoria Cross Online (victoriacrossonline.co.uk) — Biographies of all recipients, newsletters (Issue 26 covers the Norden award), burial and medal locations.
• victoriacross.org.uk — Independent reference site with recipient lists by regiment and county, burial lists, and a news log of VC sales and donations updated to October 2026.
• Memorials to Valour — Numbered register of every VC with grave, memorial and medal-location pages (e.g. VC 1359 Baird, 1360 Leakey, 1361 Sheean).
• The Gazette (London Gazette) search — Official record of every British VC citation; search by name or browse supplements.
• CWGC - Find War Dead — Commonwealth War Graves Commission database of 1.7 million dead of both world wars, with cemetery and memorial locations.
• Find a Grave — Crowd-sourced grave photographs and locations, including a 'Victoria Cross' virtual cemetery.
• IWM Lives of the First World War — Permanent digital memorial with a life story for every WW1 serviceman, including VC holders; searchable by community.
• IWM War Memorials Register — Register of over 100,000 UK war memorials, including VC paving stones and plaques.
• The National Archives - Discovery — Catalogue of UK official records; VC recommendations are in WO 32, WO 98 and WO 373; service records in WO 363/364 and officers' files.
• Wikipedia - Lists of Victoria Cross recipients — Hub page linking lists by campaign, nationality, regiment and alphabet, plus the list of living recipients.
• Wikipedia - Victoria Cross for Australia — Current list of all six VC for Australia awards.
• Australian War Memorial - Victoria Cross encyclopedia — Lists all Australian recipients and the VCs held by the Memorial.
• Lord Ashcroft - VC collection — Lord Ashcroft's own site with stories of the medals in his collection and news of its move to the National Army Museum.
• National Army Museum — Future home of the Ashcroft VC & GC collection; online collection search.