Victoria Cross
Recipients of the Victoria Cross:
- Private Robert Morrow. 1st Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers. 1915. Messines.
- Lieutenant Geoffrey St George Shillington Cather. 9th Bn Royal Irish Fusiliers. 1916. Hamel, Somme.
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