List of Channel Islands Victoria Cross recipients

List of Channel Islands Victoria Cross recipients

The following people are Channel Islanders who have been awarded the Victoria Cross.

Guernsey recipients

*Halliday, Lewis Stratford Tollemache - 1900; Boxer Rising, China
*Harington, Hastings Edward - 1859; Indian Mutiny
*Home, Duncan Charles - 1857; Indian Mutiny
*Le Patourel, Herbert Wallace - 1943, World War II, Tebourba, Tunisia
*McCrea, John Frederick - 1881, First Boer War, South Africa
*Nurse, George Edward - 1899, South African War (Boer War)

Jersey recipients

*William Arthur McCrae Bruce - 1914; World War I, France
*Sartorius, Euston Henry - 1879; Second Anglo-Afghan War
*Sartorius, Reginald William - 1874; Ashanti Campaign
*McReady-Diarmid, Allastair - 1917; World War I, France

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