Victoria Cross Recipients
- Major later Lt. Colonel George Campbell Wheeler, 2nd Battalion, 23 February 1917, River Tigris, Mesopotamia.
- Temp Major Frank Gerald Blaker, Highland Light Infantry, attached to 3rd Battalion, 9 July 1944, Taunggyi, Burma (now Myanmar).
- Rifleman Sher Bahadur Thapa, 1st Battalion, 18 September 1944, San Marino, Italy.
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