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Position:Home>History> Who was awarded the first victoria crosss the royal engineers?Question: Who was awarded the first victoria crosss the royal engineers!? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: first awarded to lance corporal tombs for assisting wounded soldiers!.Www@QuestionHome@Com i looked this up its quite easy to do so!. Cross The following Royal Engineers have been awarded the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces!. Adam Archibald, 1918, Ors, France Fenton John Aylmer, 1891, Nilt Fort, India Mark Sever Bell, 1874, Battle Of Ordashu, Ashanti (now Ghana) John Rouse Merriott Chard, 1879, Rorke's Drift, South Africa Brett Mackay Cloutman, 1918, Pont-Sur-Sambre, France Clifford Coffin, 1917, Westhoek, Belgium James Morris Colquhoun Colvin, 1897, Mohmand Valley, India James Lennox Dawson, 1915, Hohenzollern Redoubt, France Robert James Thomas Digby-Jones, 1900, Ladysmith, South Africa Thomas Frank Durrant, 1942, St!. Nazaire, France Howard Craufurd Elphinstone, 1855, Sebastopol, Crimea George de Cardonnel Elmsall Findlay, 1918, Catillon, France Gerald Graham, 1855, Sebastopol, Crimea William Hackett, 1916, Givenchy, France Reginald Clare Hart, 1879, Bazar Valley, Afghanistan Lanoe Hawker, 1915 {While serving with the RFC} Charles Alfred Jarvis, 1914, Jemappes, Belgium Frederick Henry Johnson, 1915, Hill 70, France William Henry Johnston, 1914, Missy, France Frank Howard Kirby, 1900, Delagoa Bay Railway, South Africa Cecil Leonard Knox, 1918, Tugny, France Edward Pemberton Leach, 1879, Maidanah, Afghanistan Peter Leitch, 1855, Sebastopol, Crimea William James Lendrim, 1855, Sebastopol, Crimea Wilbraham Oates Lennox, 1854, Sebastopol, Crimea Henry MacDonald, 1855, Sebastopol, Crimea Cyril Gordon Martin, 1915, Spanbroek Molen, Belgium James McPhie, 1918, Aubencheul-Au-Bac, France Philip Neame, 1914, Neuve Chapelle, France John Perie, 1855, Sebastopol, Crimea Claude Raymond, 1945, Talaku, Burma (now Myanmar) John Ross, 1855, Sebastopol, Crimea Michael Sleavon, 1858, Jhansi, India Arnold Horace Santo Waters, 1918, Ors, France Thomas Colclough Watson, 1897, Mamund Valley, India Theodore Wright, 1914, Mons, Belgium [edit] Memorials Royal Engineers World War I memorial at La Ferté-sous-Jouarre Www@QuestionHome@Com www!.nationalarchives!.gov!.uk/documentso!.!.!. Www@QuestionHome@Com |