VCs of the First World War - The Somme

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During the Battle of the Somme, 51 Victoria Crosses were awarded to British and Commonwealth soldiers.

These were awarded to

1. Noel Godfrey Chavasse
2. Bernard Freyberg
3. John Cunningham
4. William Frederick Faulds
5. Leo Clarke
6. William Barnsley Allen
7. Tom Edwin Adlam
8. Roland Boys Bradford
9. Arthur Seaforth Blackburn
10. Donald Simpson Bell
11. Eric Norman Frankland Bell
12. Eugene Paul Bennett
13. William Ewart Boulter
14. Archie Cecil Thomas White
15. Thomas Orde Lawder Wilkinson
16. Theodore William Henry Veale
17. James Youll Turnbull
18. Thomas George Turrall
19. George Sanders
20. William Henry Short
21. Adrian Carton de Wiart
22. William La Touche Congreve
23. Donald Forrester Brown
24. Thomas Cooke
25. John Leak
26. Henry Kelly
27. Thomas Alfred Jones
28. John Vaughan Campbell
29. Geoffrey St. George Shillington Cather
30. Gabriel George Coury
31. Thomas Hughes
32. George Evans
33. John Leslie Green
34. Frederick McNess
35. John Vincent Holland
36. Martin O'Meara
37. Claude Charles Castleton
38. Albert Gill
39. Joseph John Davies
40. Frederick Jeremiah Edwards
41. John Chipman Kerr
42. James Miller
43. Robert Edward Ryder
44. Walter Potter Ritchie
45. James Cleland Richardson
46. David Jones
47. Stewart Walter Loudoun-Shand
48. Robert Downie
49. Robert Quigg
50. William Frederick McFadzean