Captain

155 Victoria Crosses awarded to men holding the rank of Captain at the time of their action.

← All Officers

  1. Edward William Derrington Bell1916Captain, 23rd Regiment. (later the Royal Welch Fusiliers) · 20 September 1854 · Crimean War
  2. Robert James Lindsay1857Captain, Scots Fusilier Guards · 20 September 1854 · Crimean War
  3. William Peel1857Captain, Royal Navy · 18 October 1854; 5 November 1854; 18 June 1855 · Crimean War
  4. Hugh Rowlands1857Captain, 41st Regiment · 5 November 1854 · Crimean War
  5. Matthew Charles Dixon1857Captain (later Major General), Royal Regiment of Artillery · 17 April 1855 · Crimean War
  6. Thomas de Courcy Hamilton1857Captain, 68th Regiment. (Durham Light Infantry) · 11 May 1855 · Crimean War
  7. Henry Jones1855Captain, 7th Regiment of Foot · 7 June 1855 · Crimean War
  8. Thomas Esmonde1857Captain (later Lietenant Colonel), 18th Regiment (To become The Royal Irish Regiment) · 18 June 1855 · Crimean War
  9. Gronow Davis1857Captain, Royal Regiment of Artillery · 8 September 1855 · Crimean War
  10. Charles Lumley1857Captain, 97th Regiment · 8 September 1855 · Crimean War
  11. John Wood1856Captain, 20th Bombay Native Infantry · 9 December 1856 · Anglo-Persian War
  12. Dighton MacNaughton Probyn1858Captain, 2nd Punjab Cavalry · 1857 to 1858 · Indian Mutiny
  13. James Blair1862Captain (later General), 2nd Bombay Light Cavalry · 12 August 1857, 23 October 1857 · Indian Mutiny
  14. Henry Gore-Browne1857Captain, 32nd Regiment of Foot · 21 August 1857 · Indian Mutiny
  15. Francis Cornwallis Maude1858Captain, Royal Artillery · 25 September 1857 · Indian Mutiny
  16. William Olpherts1858Captain, Bengal Artillery · 25 September 1857 · Indian Mutiny
  17. The Hon. Augustus Henry Archibald Anson1858Captain, 84TH Regiment (later The York and Lancaster Regiment.) · 28 September 1857, 16 November 1857 · Indian Mutiny
  18. William George Drummond Stewart1858Captain, 93rd Regiment · 16 November 1857 · Indian Mutiny
  19. Henry Wilmot1858Captain, Rifle Brigade · 11 March 1858 · Indian Mutiny
  20. Henry Edward Jerome1859Captain, 86th Regiment · 3 April 1858 · Indian Mutiny
  21. Willie Martin Cafe1860Captain, 56th Bengal Native Infantry · 15 April 1858 · Indian Mutiny
  22. Clement Heneage-Walker1858Captain, 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars · 17 June 1858 · Indian Mutiny
  23. Samuel James Browne1861Captain, 46th Bengal Native Infantry · 31 August 1858 · Indian Mutiny
  24. Herbert Mackworth Clogstoun1859Captain, 19th Madras Native Infantry · 15 January 1859 · Indian Mutiny
  25. Clement Walker Heneage1859Captain, 8th Hussars (King's Royal Irish)
  26. Frederick Augustus Smith1864Captain, 43rd Regiment · 21 January 1864 · New Zealand Wars
  27. Hugh Shaw1865Captain, 18th Regiment · 24 January 1865 · New Zealand Wars
  28. George Nicolas Channer1876Captain, Bengal Staff Corps and 1st Gurkha Rifles · 20 December 1875 · Perak War
  29. Andrew Scott1878Captain, Bengal Staff Corps. Indian Army · 26 July 1877 · Baluchistan
  30. John Cook1879Captain, Bengal Staff Corps and 5th Gurkha Rifles · 2 December 1878 · Second Afghan War
  31. Edward Pemberton Leach1879Captain, Royal Engineers · 17 March 1879 · Second Afghan War
  32. Garrett Creagh1879Captain, Bombay Staff Corps · 21 April 1879 · Second Afghan War
  33. William Beresford1879Captain, 9th Lancers · 3 July 1879 · Zulu War
  34. Henry Cecil Dudgeon D'Arcy1879Captain, Cape Frontier Light Horse, South African Forces · 3 July 1879 · Zulu War
  35. Euston Henry Sartorius1881Captain, 59th Regiment · 24 October 1879 · Second Afghan War
  36. Richard Kirby Ridgeway1880Captain, Bengal Staff Corps · 22 November 1879 · Second Naga Hills Expedition
  37. Arthur George Hammond1881Captain, Bengal Staff Corps/Corps of Guides, Indian Army · 14 December 1879 · Second Afghan War
  38. William John Vousden1881Captain, 5th Punjab Cavalry · 14 December 1879 · Second Afghan War
  39. Arthur Knyvet Wilson1884Captain, Royal Navy · 29 February 1884 · Sudan Campaign
  40. Fenton John Aylmer1892Captain, [later Sir Fenton Captain Corps of Royal Engineers · 2 December 1891 · Hunza-Naga Campaign
  41. Randolph Cosby Nesbitt1897Captain, Mashonaland Mounted Police. South African Forces · 19 June 1896 · Mashona Rebellion
  42. Paul Aloysius Kenna1898Captain, 21st Lancers · 2 September 1898 · Sudan Campaign
  43. Nevill Maskelyne Smyth1898Captain, 2nd Dragoon Guards · 2 September 1898 · Sudan Campaign
  44. Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven1899Captain, 3rd Battalion, Highland Light Infantry · 22 September 1898 · Sudan Campaign
  45. Charles Fitzclarence1858Captain, The Royal Fusiliers · 14 October 1899 · Second Boer War
  46. Robert Johnston1901Captain, Imperial Light Horse (Natal) · 21 October 1899 · Second Boer War
  47. Matthew Fontaine Maury Meiklejohn1900Captain, 2nd Battalion. Gordon Highlanders · 21 October 1899 · Second Boer War
  48. Charles Herbert Mullins1901Captain, Imperial Light Horse. South African Forces · 21 October 1899 · Second Boer War
  49. Ernest Beachcroft Beckwith Towse1900Captain, 1st. Battalion. Gordon Highlanders · 11 December 1899 · Second Boer War
  50. Walter Norris Congreve1900Captain, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) · 15 December 1899 · Second Boer War
  51. Hamilton Lyster Reed1900Captain, 7th Battery. Royal Field Artillery · 15 December 1899 · Second Boer War
  52. Harry Norton Schofield1901Captain, Royal Field Artillery · 15 December 1899 · Second Boer War
  53. Conwyn Mansel-Jones1900Captain, West Yorkshire Regiment · 27 February 1900 · Second Boer War
  54. Lewis Stratford Tollemache Halliday1901Captain, Royal Marine Light Infantry · 24 June 1900 · Boxer Rising
  55. William Eagleson Gordon1900Captain, 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders · 11 July 1900 · Second Boer War
  56. David Reginald Younger1902Captain, 1st Battalion. Gordon Highlanders · 11 July 1900 · Second Boer War
  57. Neville Reginald Howse1918Captain, New South Wales Medical Staff Corps, Australian Forces · 24 July 1900 · Second Boer War
  58. Charles John Melliss1901Captain, Indian Staff Corps attached to the West African Force · 30 September 1900 · Third Ashanti Expedition
  59. Alexander Stanhope Cobbe1903Captain, ). Indian Army attached to the King's African Rifles · 6 October 1902 · Second Somaliland Expedition
  60. George Murray Rolland1903Captain, 1st Bombay Grenadiers. Indian Army · 22 April 1903 · Third Somaliland Expedition
  61. William George Walker1903Captain, 4th Gurkha Rifles. Indian Army · 22 April 1903 · Third Somaliland Expedition
  62. Theodore Wright1914Captain, Corps of Royal Engineers · 23 August 1914; 14 September 1914 · First World War
  63. Francis Octavus Grenfell1914Captain, 9th Lancers (Queen's Royal) · 24 August 1914 · First World War
  64. Douglas Reynolds1914Captain, 37th Battery. Royal Field Artillery · 26 August 1914; 9 September 1914 · First World War
  65. Edward Kinder Bradbury1914Captain, 'L' Battery. Royal Horse Artillery · 1 September 1914 · First World War
  66. William Henry Johnston1914Captain, 59th Field Company. Royal Engineers · 14 September 1914 · First World War
  67. Harry Sherwood Ranken1914Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps attached to 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps · 19–20 September 1914 · First World War
  68. John Franks Vallentin1915Captain, 1st Battalion The South Staffordshire Regiment · 7 November 1914 · First World War
  69. Walter Lorrain Brodie1914Captain, 2nd Battalion, Highland Light Infantry · 11 November 1914 · First World War
  70. Eustace Jotham1915Captain, 51st Sikhs. Indian Army · 7 January 1915 · First World War
  71. Charles Calveley Foss1915Captain, 2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment · 12 March 1915 · First World War
  72. Frances Alexander Caron Scrimger1915Captain, Canadian Army Medical Corps, attached to 14th Battalion, Royal Montreal Regiment · 25 April 1915 · First World War
  73. Richard Willis1915Captain, Lancashire Fusiliers · 25 April 1915 · First World War
  74. Garth Neville Walford1915Captain, Royal Regiment of Artillery · 26 April 1915 · First World War
  75. Gerald Robert O'Sullivan1915Captain, 1st Battalion. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers · 1–2 July 1915 · First World War
  76. Lanoe George Hawker1915Captain, No. 6 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps · 25 July 1915 · First World War
  77. John Aiden Liddell1915Captain, 3rd Battalion. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, also the Royal Flying Corps · 31 July 1915 · First World War
  78. Percy Howard Hansen1915Captain, 6th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment · 9 August 1915 · First World War
  79. Alfred John Shout1915Captain, 1st Battalion (N S W) Australian Imperial Force · 9 August 1915 · First World War
  80. Arthur Forbes Gordon Kilby1916Captain, 2nd Battalion. South Staffordshire Regiment · 25 September 1915 · First World War
  81. Anketell Moutray Read1915Captain, 1st Battalion. Northamptonshire Regiment · 25 September 1915 · First World War
  82. Charles Geoffrey Vickers1915Captain, 1st/7th Battalion. Sherwood Foresters · 14 October 1915 · First World War
  83. John Alexander Sinton1916Captain, Indian Medical Service · 21 January 1916 · First World War
  84. Eric Archibald Mcnair1916Captain, 9th Service Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment · 14 February 1916 · First World War
  85. Angus Buchanan1916Captain, 4th Battalion. The South Wales Borderers · 5 April 1916 · First World War
  86. Eric Bell1916Temp. Captain, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers · 1 July 1916 · First World War
  87. John Leslie Green1916Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps, attached 1st Battalion, Sherwood Foresters. (Notts and Derby Regiment) · 1 July 1916 · First World War
  88. Lionel Wilmot Brabazon Rees1916Captain, Royal Artillery and Royal Flying Corps · 1 July 1916 · First World War
  89. Noel Godfrey Chavasse VC & Bar1916Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps attchd 1/10th Battalion The King's (Liverpool) Regiment · 9 August 1916, 31 July 1917 to 2 August 1917 · First World War
  90. William Anderson Bloomfield1916Captain, Scout Corps, 2nd South African Mounted Brigade · 24 August 1916 · First World War
  91. William Barnsley Allen1879Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps attached to 246th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery · 3 September 1916 · First World War
  92. Archie White1916Temp. Captain, Green Howards · 21 September 1916 to 1 October 1916 · First World War
  93. Henry William Murray1917Captain, 13th Battalion. * Australian Imperial Force · 4–5 February 1917 · First World War
  94. Oswald Austin Reid1943Captain (later Major), 1st Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment attached tom the 6th Battn. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment · 8–10 March 1917 · First World War
  95. Percy Herbert Cherry1917Captain, 26th Battalion (Queensland and Tasmania) Australian Imperial Force · 26 March 1917 · First World War
  96. Thain Wendell Macdowell1917Captain, 38th Ottawa Battalion. Eastern Ontario Regiment, Canadian Expeditionary Force · 9 April 1917 · First World War
  97. James Newland1917Captain, 12th Battalion, AIF · 7–14 April 1917 · First World War
  98. Arthur Henderson1917Captain, 4th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and attached to 2nd Battalion · 23 April 1917 · First World War
  99. David Philip Hirsch1917Captain, 4th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment. (Princess Alexandra of Wales' Own) · 23 April 1917 · First World War
  100. Albert Ball1917Temp. Captain, No. 56 Squadron RFC · 25 April 1917 to 6 May 1917 · First World War
  101. William Avery Bishop1917Captain, Canadian Cavalry and 60 Squadron of The Royal Flying Corps · 2 June 1917 · First World War
  102. Robert Cuthbert Grieve1917Captain, 37th Battalion (Victoria), Australian Imperial Force · 7 June 1917 · First World War
  103. John Ernest Newland1917Captain, 12th Battalion * Australian Imperial Force
  104. Harold Ackroyd1917Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps, attached 6th Battn., Royal Berkshire Regiment · 31 July 1917 to 1 August 1917 · First World War
  105. Thomas Riversdale. COLYER- Fergusson1917Captain, 2nd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment · 31 July 1917 · First World War
  106. James McCudden1917Temp. Captain, No. 56 Squadron RFC · August 1917 to March 1918 · First World War
  107. Henry Reynolds1917Captain, 12th Battalion. Royal Scots · 20 September 1917 · First World War
  108. Clement Robertson1917Captain, Special Reserve, Tank Corps · 4 October 1917 · First World War
  109. Clarence Smith Jeffries1917Captain, 34th Battalion. (New South Wales). Australian Imperial Force · 12 October 1917 · First World War
  110. Christopher Patrick John O'Kelly1918Captain, 52nd Battalion. Manitoba Regiment. Canadian Expeditionary Force · 26 October 1917 · First World War
  111. John Fox Russell1918Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps · 6 November 1917 · First World War
  112. Richard William Leslie Wain1918Captain, 'A' Battalion. Tank Corps · 20 November 1917 · First World War
  113. Robert Gee1918Captain, 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers · 30 November 1917 · First World War
  114. Allastair Malcolm Cluny Mcready-Diarmid1918Captain, 17th (Service) Battalion Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridge's Own) · 30 November 1917 to 1 December 1917 · First World War
  115. Walter Napleton Stone1918Captain, 3rd Battalion. * Royal Fusiliers · 30 November 1917 · First World War
  116. George Henry Tatham Paton1918Captain, 4th Battalion. Grenadier Guards · 1 December 1917 · First World War
  117. Arthur Moore Lascelles1918Captain, 3rd Battalion. Durham Light Infantry. (attached to 14th Battalion) · 3 December 1917 · First World War
  118. Reginald Frederick Johnson Hayward1918Captain, 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment · 21–22 March 1918 · First World War
  119. Julian Royds Gribble1918Captain, 10th (Service) Battalion. Royal Warwickshire Regiment · 23 March 1918 · First World War
  120. Manley Angell James1918Captain, 8th Service Battalion. Gloucestershire Regiment · 21–23 March 1918 · First World War
  121. John Thomas Byrford Mccudden1918Captain, 56 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps. (General List)
  122. Eric Stuart Dougall1918Captain, Special Reserve attached to "A" Battery-- 88th Brigade Royal Field Artillery · 10 April 1918 · First World War
  123. Thomas Tannatt Pryce1918Captain, 4th Battalion. Grenadier Guards · 11–12 April 1918 · First World War
  124. Edward Bamford1918Captain, Royal Marine Light Infantry · 22–23 April 1918 · First World War
  125. Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter1918Captain, Royal Navy · 22–23 April 1918 · First World War
  126. Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor1918Captain, No. 84 Squadron RFC · 8 August 1918 to 8 October 1918 · First World War
  127. Ferdinand West1918Captain, No. 8 Squadron RFC · 12 August 1918 · First World War
  128. Bellenden Seymour Hutcheson1918Captain, Canadian Army Medical Corps attchd to the 75th Battn · 2 September 1918 · First World War
  129. Cyril Hubert Frisby1918Captain, 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards · 27 September 1918 · First World War
  130. John Mcgregor1919Captain, 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles. 1st Central Ontario Regiment. Canadian Expeditionary Force · 29 September 1918 to 3 October 1918 · First World War
  131. Coulson Norman Mitchell1919Captain, 1st Tunnelling Company. 4th Canadian Engineers. Canadian Expeditionary Force · 8–9 October 1918 · First World War
  132. Henry John Andrews1920Temporary Captain, Indian Medical Service · 22 October 1919 · Waziristan Campaign
  133. George Stuart Henderson1920Captain, 2nd Battalion, Manchester Regiment · 24 July 1920 · Arab Revolt
  134. Godfrey Meynell1935Captain, Corps of Guides, 12th Frontier Force Regiment, Indian Army · 29 September 1935 · Second Mohmand Campaign
  135. Bernard Armitage Warburton Warburton-Lee1940Captain, Royal Navy 2nd Destroyer Flotilla · 10 April 1940 · Second World War
  136. Harold Marcus Ervine-Andrews1940Captain (later Lt. Colonel), The East Lancashire Regiment · 31 May 1940 to 1 June 1940 · Second World War
  137. Eric Charles Twelves Wilson1940Acting Captain, Attended VC dedication at Westminster Abbey on 14th May 2003 · 11–15 August 1940 · Second World War
  138. Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegen1940Acting Captain, Royal Navy VC London Gazetted on 22nd November 1940 · 5 November 1940 · Second World War
  139. Philip John Gardner1942Captain, Royal Tank Regiment, RAC · 23 November 1941 · Second World War
  140. James Joseph Bernard Jackman1942Captain, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers · 25 November 1941 · Second World War
  141. John Weir Foote1946Hon. Captain, Canadian Chaplain Service, attchd to Royal Hamilton Light Infantry. Canadian Army · 19 August 1942 · Second World War
  142. Patrick Anthony Porteous1942Temporary Captain (later Colonel), The Royal Regiment of Artillery · 19 August 1942 · Second World War
  143. Frederick Thornton Peters1943Captain, Royal Navy · 8 November 1942 · Second World War
  144. Robert St Vincent Sherbrooke1943Captain, Royal Navy · 31 December 1942 · Second World War
  145. Lord, Charles Anthony Lyell1943Captain, 1st Battalion. Scots Guards · 22–27 April 1943 · Second World War
  146. Paul Triquet1944Captain, Royal 22nd Regiment. Canadian Army · 14 December 1943 · Second World War
  147. John Neil Randle1944Captain, 2nd Battalion. Royal Norfolk Regiment · 4–6 May 1944 · Second World War
  148. Richard Wakeford1944Captain, 2nd /4th Battalion. Hampshire Regiment · 13 May 1944 · Second World War
  149. Michael Allmand1944Act/ Captain, Indian Armoured Corps and 6th Gurkha Rifles Indian Army · 11 June 1944, 23 June 1944 · Second World War
  150. David Auldgo Jamieson1944Captain (later Major), The Royal Norfolk Regiment · 7–8 August 1944 · Second World War
  151. Lionel Ernest Queripel1945Captain, The Royal Sussex Regiment attached to the 10th Parachute Battalion · 19 September 1944 · Second World War
  152. John Henry Cound Brunt1945Captain, The Sherwood Foresters. (the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) attchd 6th Battalion, the Lincolnshire Regiment · 9 December 1944 · Second World War
  153. Edwin Swales1945Captain, South African Air Force Secunded to 582 Squadron, Royal Air Force · 23 February 1945 · Second World War
  154. Ian Oswald Liddell1945Captain, 5th Battalion. Coldstream Guards · 3 April 1945 · Second World War
  155. O'Moore CreaghCaptain, Bombay Staff Corps, Indian Army