Eton VC Recipients

Victoria Cross

Victoria Cross

Crimean War

Lieutenant-General Lord Henry Percy  (1817–1877)

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Charles Russell  (1826–1883) and politician

Gerald Goodlake VC

Gerald Goodlake  (1832–1890) (above)

Robert James Loyd-Lindsay, 1st Baron Wantage (1832–1901), and politician

 

Indian Mutiny

Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Fraser  (1829–1895)

Clement Walker Heneage,  (1831–1901)

Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts  (1832–1914),

  • Commander-in-Chief, Madras, 1881–1885
  • India, 1885–1893
  • Ireland, 1895–1899
  • South Africa, 1899–1900
  • Commander-in-Chief, 1901–1904

 

Umbeyla Expedition

George Fosbery VC

George Fosbery (1832–1907),  and firearms expert

 

Zulu War

General Sir Redvers Buller,  (1839–1908),

  • Adjutant General, 1890–1897
  • General Officer Commanding Natal, 1899–1900
  • I Corps, 1901–1906

Lord William Beresford,  (1847–1900)

 

Sudan Campaign

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson (1842–1921),

  • Third Sea Lord, 1897–1901,
  • Flag Officer Commanding Channel Squadron, 1901–1908, and
  • Home Fleet, 1903–1907,
  • First Sea Lord, 1909–1912

William Edwards  (1855–1912)

Brigadier General Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie,  (1872–1955),

  • Governor of South Australia, 1928–1934, and
  • New South Wales, 1935–1936,
  • Governor-General of Australia, 1936–1944.

 

Malakand Campaign

Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore  (1871–1962)

 

Boer War

Charles Fitzclarence VC

Charles FitzClarence (1865–1914) (above)

Frederick_Hugh_Sherston_Roberts VC

Frederick Roberts (1872–1899) (above)

 

Somaliland Campaign

Major-General Sir John Gough  (1871–1915)

 

First World War

Brigadier-General John Campbell  (1876–1944)

George Boyd-Rochfort  (1880–1940)

Francis Grenfell  (1880–1915)

Arthur Batten-Pooll (1891–1971),

William Congreve  (1891–1916)

Reginald Graham (1892–1980)

John Dunville (1896–1917)

Julian Royds Gribble (1897–1918)

Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pugh Evans (1881–1962)

Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Borton  (1883–1933)

Lieutenant-Colonel Neville Elliott-Cooper  (1889–1918)

Lieutenant Geoffrey Drummond  RNVR (1886–1941)

Captain Percy Hansen (1890–1951)

 

North West Frontier

Godfrey Meynell VC

Godfrey Meynell  (1904–1935)

 

Second World War

William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L’Isle  (1909–1991)

Christopher Furness  (1912–1940)

Charles Anthony Lyell, 2nd Baron Lyell  (1913–1943)

Geoffrey Keyes  (1917–1941)

David Jamieson (1920–2001)

 

Falklands War

H Jones VC

H Jones (1940–1982)