BROOKWOOD CEMETERY

The following table lists all the  known holders of the Victoria Cross commemorated in the Cemetery and the date of the action or battle resulting in the award . Click on the links for further information.

Much of the information listed on these pages is courtesy of David Harvey, whose definitive book, Monuments to Courage: Victoria Cross Headstones & Memorials (1999), is highly recommended for further reading. 

ADDISON, Rev. William Robert Fountaine (1883-1962); Mesopotamia, 9 April 1916 

BEAK, Daniel Marcus (1891-1967); Longest Wood, France, 21, 25 August & 4 September 1918 

FRISBY, Cyril Hubert (1885-1961); Near Graincourt, France, 27 September 1918 

HALLOWES, Rupert Price (died 1915); Hooge, France, September 1915

HARTLEY, Edmund Baron (1847-1919); Moirosi's Mountain, Basutoland, 5 June 1879 

HOLLOWELL, James (1823-1876); Lucknow, India, 26 September 1857 

INKSON, Edgar Thomas (1872-1947); Colenso, South Africa, 24 February 1900 

KELLY, John Sherwood (1880-1931); Marcoing, France, 20 November 1917 

KENNY, William (1880-1936); Ypres, Belgium, 23 October 1914 

MANGLES, Ross Lowis (1833-1905); Arrah, Indian Mutiny, 30 July 1857 

MARTINEAU, Horace Robert (1873-1916); Near Mafeking, South Africa, 26 December 1899

MEIKLEJOHN, Matthew F. M. (1870-1913); Elandslaagte, South Africa, 21 October 1899

PEARSE, Samuel George (1897-1919); Emtsa, Russia, 29 August 1919

REYNOLDS, William (1827-1867); Battle of the Alma, 20 September 1854 

WRIGHT, Wallace Duffield (1875-1953); Nigeria, 26 February 1903