Chapter XXXV: Appendix: C

WARS AND CAMPAIGNS IN WHICH THE VICTORIA CROSS HAS BEEN WON, FROM 1854 TO 1904.

No. of
Crosses
gained.

Crimea and Baltic 1854-5 111
Persia 1856-7 3
Indian Mutiny 1857-9 182
China (including the Taiping Rebellion) 1860-2; 1900 10
New Zealand 1860-1; 1863-6 15
India (Umbeyla) 1863 2
Japan 1864 3
India (Bhotan) 1864-5 2
* Canada 1866 1
West Africa (Gambia) 1866; 1892 2
* Andaman Islands 1867 5
Abyssinia 1867-8 2
India (Looshai) 1871-2 1
Ashanti 1873-4; 1900 6
Perak 1875-6 1
Quetta (Beloochistan) 1877 1
South Africa (Kaffir War) 1877-8 1
Afghanistan 1878-80 16
Zululand 1879 23
Basutoland 1879 and 1881 6
India (Naga Hills) 1879-80 1
South Africa (First Boer War) 1880-1 6
Egypt and Soudan 1882; 1884-5 8
Burma 1889; 1893 3
Manipur (N.E. India) 1891 1
India (Hunza-Nagar) 1891 3
Chitral 1895 1
Matabeleland 1896 3
India (Punjab Frontier) 1897-8 11
Soudan (Khartoum) 1898 5
Crete 1898 1
South Africa (Second Boer War) 1899-1902 78
Somaliland 1902-4 6
Nigeria 1903 1
Tibet 1904 1
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Total 522
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* Not gained in action.