Major

49 Victoria Crosses awarded to men holding the rank of Major at the time of their action.

← All Officers

  1. Gerald Littlehales Goodlake1857Major, Coldstream Guards · 28 October 1854 · Crimean War
  2. Sir Charles Russell1857Brevet, -Major. 3rd Battalion. Grenadier Guards · 5 November 1854 · Crimean War
  3. Frederick Cockayne Elton1857Brevet Major, 55th Regiment (Border Regiment) · 29 March 1855 · Crimean War
  4. Henry Tombs1858Major, Bengal Horse Artillery · 9 July 1857 · Indian Mutiny
  5. Charles John Stanley Gough1859Major, 5th Bengal European Cavalry · 15 August 1857, 18 August 1857, 27 January 1858, 3 February 1858 · Indian Mutiny
  6. John Christopher Guise1858Major, 90th Regiment. (Cameronians...... Scottish Rifles) · 16 November 1857 · Indian Mutiny
  7. Richard Harte Keatinge1862Major, Bombay Artillery. Indian Army · 17 March 1858 · Indian Mutiny
  8. Charles Fraser1858Major, 7th Queen's Own Hussars · 31 December 1858 · Indian Mutiny
  9. Charles Heaphy1867Major, Auckland Militia of the New Zealand Military Forces · 11 February 1864 · New Zealand Wars
  10. William Spottiswoode Trevor1867Major, Bengal Engineers. Indian Army · 30 April 1865 · Bhutan War
  11. Donald Macintyre1872Major (later Major-General), Bengal Staff Corps and 2nd Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army · 4 January 1872 · Lushai Expedition
  12. Reginald William Sartorius1874Major, 6th Bengal Cavalry. Indian Army · 17 January 1874 · First Ashanti Expedition
  13. Hans Garratt Moore1879Major, 88 Regiment · 29 December 1877 · 9th Cape Frontier War
  14. William Knox Leet1879Major, 1st Battalion. 13th Regiment · 28 March 1879 · Indian Mutiny
  15. George White1879Major, 92nd Regiment of Foot · 6 October 1879 · Second Afghan War
  16. William Babtie1900Major, Royal Army Medical Corps · 15 December 1899 · Second Boer War
  17. Edmund John Phipps-Hornby1900Major, 'Q' Battery, Royal Horse Artillery · 31 March 1900 · Second Boer War
  18. Edward Douglas Brown1901Major, 14th Hussars (The King's) · 13 October 1900 · Second Boer War
  19. John Edmond Gough1904Brevet, -Major. The Rifle Brigade. (Prince Consort's Own) · 22 April 1903 · Third Somaliland Expedition
  20. Ernest Wright Alexander1915Major (later Maj. General), 119th Battery Royal Field Artillery · 24 August 1914 · First World War
  21. Charles Yate1914Major, King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry) · 26 August 1914 · First World War
  22. George Allix Lavington Yate1914Major, 2nd Battalion. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
  23. George Wheeler1915Major, 7th Hariana Lancers · 12–13 April 1915 · First World War
  24. Cuthbert Bromley1917Major, 1st Battalion The Lancashire Fusiliers · 25 April 1915 · First World War
  25. Francis John William Harvey1916Major, Royal Marine Light Infantry · 31 May 1916 · First World War
  26. Stewart Walker Loudoun-Shand1916Major, 10th Battalion. Yorkshire Regiment · 1 July 1916 · First World War
  27. William La Touche Congreve1916Brevet Major, The Rifle Brigade. (Prince Consort's Own) · 6–20 July 1916 · First World War
  28. George Wheeler1917Major, 9th Gurkha Rifles · 23 February 1917 · First World War
  29. Frederick William Lumsden1917Major, Royal Marine Artillery · 3–4 April 1917 · First World War
  30. Okill Massey Learmonth1917Major, 2nd Battalion. Eastern Ontario Regiment. Canadian Expeditionary Force · 18 August 1917 · First World War
  31. Alexander Malins Lafone1917Major, 1st/1st County of London Yeomanry · 27 October 1917 · First World War
  32. George Randolph Pearkes1918Major, 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion. * Canadian Expeditionary Force · 30–31 October 1917 · First World War
  33. Edward Mannock1900Major, 85 Squadron Royal Flying Corps (later TheRoyal Air Force.) · 17 June 1918 to 26 July 1918 · First World War
  34. Blair Anderson Wark1918Major, 32nd Battalion. * Australian Imperial Force · 29 September 1918 to 1 October 1918 · First World War
  35. William George Barker1918Acting Major, 201 Squadron Royal Air Force · 27 October 1918 · First World War
  36. George de Cardonnel Elmsall Findlay1915Major, 409 (Low) Field Company, Royal Engineers · 4 November 1918 · First World War
  37. Arnold Horace Santo Waters1919Major, 218th Field Company. Royal Engineers · 4 November 1918 · First World War
  38. Brett Mackay Cloutman1919Major, 59th Field Company, Corps of Royal Engineers · 6 November 1918 · First World War
  39. Herbert Wallace Le Patourel1943Major, 2nd Battalion. Hampshire Regiment · 3 December 1942 · Second World War
  40. John Thompson McKellar Anderson1943A/ Major, 8th Battalion The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's) · 23 April 1943 · Second World War
  41. William Philip Sidney1944Major, 5th Battalion. Grenadier Guards · 8–9 February 1944 · Second World War
  42. Charles Ferguson Hoey1944Major, 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment · 16 February 1944 · Second World War
  43. John Keefer. 0 Mahony1944Major, Westminster Regiment. Canadian Infantry Corps · 24 May 1944 · Second World War
  44. Frank Gerald Blaker1944Temp. Major, The Highland Light Infantry attchd to 3rd Battalion, 9th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army · 9 July 1944 · Second World War
  45. David Vivien Currie1944Major (later Lieutenant-Colonel), 29th Canadian Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment. Canadian Armoured Corps. (the South Alberta Regiment) · 18–20 August 1944 · Second World War
  46. Robert Henry Cain1944Major, The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers attached to The South Staffordshire Regiment /// 1st Airborne Division · 17–25 September 1944 · Second World War
  47. Frederick Albert Tilston1945Major, Essex-Scottish Regiment. Canadian Infantry Corps · 1 March 1945 · Second World War
  48. Kenneth Muir1951Major, 1st Battalion. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders · 23 September 1950 · Korean War
  49. Peter John Badcoe1967Major, Australian Training Team Vietnam · 23 February 1967, 7 March 1967, 7 April 1967 · Vietnam War