The Victoria Cross to Shropshire Regiments - list.

Eight Victoria Crosses have been awarded to men of the Shropshire Regiments - five to the 53rd during the Indian Mutiny, 1857-59, one to the 10th (Shropshire and Cheshire Yeomanry) Battalion, K.S.L.I., in World War One and two for North West Europe in World War Two.

See also separate detailed sections on VCs for India and VCs of the 20th Century.

Roll of Victoria Cross recipients.

Officers of 53rd at Devonport, 1861 [+]
Officers of the 53rd at Devonport in 1861, just after their return from India. Lt. Kirke Ffrench VC is second from the left. Adjutant Charles Pye VC is second from the right.

Awards of the Victoria Cross to the Shropshire Regiments.

1. Sergeant Denis Dynan, 53rd Regiment.
Action : at Chattra (or Chota Behar), Indian Mutiny.
Date : 2nd October 1857.
London Gazette : 25th February 1862.
Conferred : May 1862 - presumably at the Royal Military Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin.

2. Lieutenant Alfred Kirke Ffrench, 53rd Regiment.
Action : attack on the Sikandar (Secundra) Bagh, Lucknow, Indian Mutiny.
Date : 16th November 1857.
London Gazette : 24th December 1858.
Conferred : not known.

3. Private Charles Irwin, 53rd Regiment.
Action : attack on the Sikandar (Secundra) Bagh, Lucknow, Indian Mutiny.
Date : 16th November 1857.
London Gazette : 24th December 1858.
Conferred : not known.

4. Private James Kenny, 53rd Regiment.
Action : attack on the Sikandar (Secundra) Bagh, Lucknow, Indian Mutiny.
Date : 16th November 1857.
London Gazette : 24th December 1858.
Conferred : not known.

5. Sergeant Major Charles Pye, 53rd Regiment.
Action : capture of the Mess House, Lucknow, Indian Mutiny.
Date : 17th November 1857.
London Gazette : 24th December 1858.
Conferred : not known.

6. Private Harold Whitfield, 10th (Shropshire & Cheshire Yeomanry) Battalion, KS.L.I.
Action : at Burj-el-Lisaneh, Palestine.
Date : 10th March 1918.
London Gazette : 8th May 1918.
Conferred : by HM King George V in a public investiture in Leeds, May 1918.

7. Acting Sergeant George Harold Eardley, M.M., 4th (Territorial) Battalion, KS.L.I.
Action : west of Overloon, Holland.
Date : 16th October 1944.
London Gazette : 2nd January 1945.
Conferred : by HM King George VI at Buckingham Palace, 1945.

8. Private James Stokes, 2nd Battalion, K.S.L.I.
Action : near Kervenheim, Rhineland.
Date : 1st March 1945.
London Gazette : 17th April 1945.
Conferred : Posthumous award. VC presented to his widow by HM King George VI at Buckingham Palace, 1945.

Eardley and Whitfield [+]
George Eardley VC, MM and Harold Whitfield VC at Copthorne Barracks in 1956.