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Victoria Cross Recipients — D 75 recipients. Year shown is the London Gazette date (or year of action).
James Langley Dalton 1879 Acting Assistant, Commissary. Commissariat and Transport Department · Zulu War Henry Dalziel 1918 Driver, 15th Battalion, (Queensland and Territories) Australian Imperial Force · First World War John Danahar * 1882 Trooper, Nourse's Horse (Transvaal), South African Forces John Danaher 1881 Trooper, Nourse's Horse · First Boer War Frederick George Dancox 1917 Private, 4th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment · First World War Edward St John Daniel 1857 Midshipman, Royal Navy (Naval Brigade) · Crimean War Harry Daniels 1915 Company Sergeant Major, 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade · First World War Henry Cecil Dudgeon D'Arcy 1879 Captain, Cape Frontier Light Horse, South African Forces · Zulu War Wilbur Taylor Dartnell 1915 Lieutenant, 25th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers · First World War Darwan Sing Negi 1914 Naik, 1st Battalion, 39th Garhwal Rifles, Indian Army · First World War John Charles Campbell Daunt 1862 Lieutenant, 11th Bengal Native Infantry · Indian Mutiny Philip Davey 1918 Corporal, 10th Battalion (South Australia) Australian Imperial Force · First World War James Llewellyn Davies 1917 Corporal, 13th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers · First World War John Thomas Davies 1918 Corporal, 11th (Service) Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment · First World War Joseph John Davies 1916 Corporal, 10th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers · First World War Richard Bell Davies 1916 Squadron Commander, Royal Navy Gronow Davis 1857 Captain, Royal Regiment of Artillery · Crimean War James Davis* 1859 Private, 42nd Regiment. (Black Watch)--- (Royal Highlanders) · Indian Mutiny James Lennox Dawson 1915 Corporal, 187th Company. Royal Engineers · First World War George Fiott Day 1857 Lieutenant, Royal Navy · Crimean War Sidney James Day 1917 Corporal, 11th Battalion the Suffolk Regiment (Norwich) · First World War John Brunton Daykins 1919 Sergeant, 2nd/4th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment · First World War Donald John Dean 1918 Lieutenant (later Colonel), 8th Battalion. Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment · First World War Percy Thompson Dean 1918 Lieutenant (later Lieutenant Commander), Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve · First World War Maurice James Dease 1898 Lieutenant, 4th Battalion. Royal Fusiliers · First World War Denis Dempsey 1860 Private, first Battalion 10th Regiment (Lincolnshire Regiment) · Indian Mutiny Frank Alexander De Pass 1915 Lieutenant, 34th Prince Albert Victor's Own Poona Horse, Indian Army · First World War Thomas Currie Derrick 1944 Sergeant (later Lieutenant), 2nd/48th Battalion, (South Australia) Australian Military Forces · Second World War Edmund De Wind 1919 Second Lieutenant, 15th Battalion. Royal Irish Rifles · First World War Bernard Diamond 1858 Sergeant, Bengal Horse Artillery · Indian Mutiny William Henry Dick-Cunyngham 1881 Lieutenant (later Lieutenant-Colonel), The Gordon Highlanders · Second Afghan War Collingwood Dickson 1857 Lieutenant-Colonel (later General), Royal Regiment of Artillery · Crimean War John Henry Stephen Dimmer 1914 Lieutenant (later Lieutenant Colonel), 2nd Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps · First World War Thomas Dinesen 1918 Private (later Lieutenant), 42nd, Quebec Regiment (Royal Highlanders of Canada) · First World War John Divane* 1860 Private, 1st Battalion. (King's Royal Rifle Corps) · Indian Mutiny Matthew Charles Dixon 1857 Captain (later Major General), Royal Regiment of Artillery · Crimean War Claude Congreve Dobson 1919 Commander (later Rear-Admiral), Royal Navy · North Russia Relief Force Frederick William Dobson 1914 Private, 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards · First World War Mark Gregor Strang Donaldson Living 2009 Trooper, Special Air Service Regiment (SASR), Special Operations Task Group · War in Afghanistan (Operation Slipper) Dennis Donnini 1945 Fusilier, 4th/5th Battalion. Royal Scots Fusiliers · Second World War Patrick Donohoe 1858 Private, 9th Lancers (Queen's Royal) · Indian Mutiny John Doogan 1882 Private, 1st Dragoon Guards · First Boer War George Thomas Dorrell 1914 Battery Sergeant-Major (later Lieutenant-Colonel), "L" Battery. Royal Horse Artillery · First World War Eric Stuart Dougall 1918 Captain, Special Reserve attached to "A" Battery-- 88th Brigade Royal Field Artillery · First World War Charles Hotham Montagu Doughty -Wylie 1915 Lieutenant Colonel, HQ Staff, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force · First World War Campbell Mellis Douglas 1867 Assistant surgeon (later Lieutenant-Colonel), 2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment (South Wales Borderers) · Andaman Islands Expedition Henry Edward Manning Douglas 1915 Lieutenant (later Major General), Royal Army Medical Corps · Second Boer War Angus Douglas-Hamilton 1915 Temp. Lieutenant Colonel, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders · First World War George Dare Dowell 1857 Lieutenant (later Lieutenant Colonel), Royal Marine Artillery · Crimean War William Dowling 1859 Private, 32nd Regiment (Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry) · Indian Mutiny John Thornton Down 1864 Ensign, 57th Regiment. (Middlesex Regiment). (up Duke of Cambridge's Own) · New Zealand Wars Robert Downie 1916 Sergeant, 2nd Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers · First World War Alexis Charles Doxat 1901 Lieutenant (later Major), 3rd Battalion. Imperial Yeomanry · Second Boer War Martin Doyle 1919 Company Sergeant-Major, 1st Battalion. Royal Munster Fusiliers · First World War Job Henry Charles Drain 1914 Driver (later Sergeant), 37th Battery Royal Field Artillery · First World War Alfred George Drake 1916 Corporal, 8th Battalion Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) · First World War Tom Dresser 1917 Private, 7th Battalion. Yorkshire Regiment (Alexandra, Princess of Wales' Own) · First World War George Leslie Drewry 1915 Midshipman (later Lieutenant), Royal Naval Reserve · First World War Geoffrey Heneage Drummond 1918 Lieutenant, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve · First World War James Duffy 1918 Private, 6th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers · First World War Thomas Duffy 1858 Private, 1st Madras Fusiliers (Royal Dublin Fusiliers) · Indian Mutiny Frederick Brooks Dugdale 1901 Lieutenant, 5th Lancers. (Royal Irish) · Second Boer War Martin Eric Dunbar-Nasmith 1915 Lieutenant Commander, Royal Navy · First World War James Dundas 1867 Lieutenant (later Captain), Bengal Engineers, Indian Army · Bhutan War Bertram, BEST- Dunkley 1917 Lieutenant Colonel, Commanding 2nd/ 5th Battalion. Lancashire Fusiliers · First World War John Dunlay 1858 Lance Corporal, 93rd Regitment (later Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.) · Indian Mutiny Alexander Roberts Dunn 1857 Lieutenant (later Colonel), 11th Hussars. (Prince Albert's Own) · Crimean War Robert Dunsire 1915 Private (later Corporal), 13th Battalion, Royal Scots. (The Lothian Regiment) · First World War William Dunstan 1915 Corporal (later Lieutenant), 7th Battalion, (Victoria) Australian Imperial Force · First World War John Spencer Dunville 1917 Second Lieutenant, 1st Royal Dragoons · First World War Alfred Edward Durrant 1901 Private, 2nd Battalion. Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) · Second Boer War Thomas Frank Durrant 1945 Sergeant, Royal Engineers and No. 1 Commando · Second World War Edward Dwyer 1915 Private, 1st Battalion. East Surrey Regiment · First World War John James Dwyer 1917 Sergeant (later Lieutenant, 4th Company, Machine-Gun Corps · First World War Denis Dynon 1862 Sergeant, 53rd Regiment (King's Shropshire Light Infantry) · Indian Mutiny