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| Royal Green Jackets ( Rifles ) Museum incorporating: |
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King's Royal Rifle Corps | |
| and The Rifle Brigade Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Peninsula Barracks |
| The following King's Royal Rifle Corps Victoria Crosses are held by the Royal Green Jackets Museum | |||
| Rank | First Name | Last Name | Royal Green Jackets Museum |
| Indian Mutiny ( 1857 - 1858 ) | |||
| Bugler | William | SUTTON | 1st Bn, 60th Rifles ( King's Royal Rifle Corps ) |
| Private | James | THOMPSON | 1st Bn, 60th Rifles ( King's Royal Rifle Corps ) |
| Colour Sergeant | George | WALLER | 1st Bn, 60th Rifles ( King's Royal Rifle Corps ) |
| Inhlobana, South Africa ( 1877 - 1879 ) | |||
| General | Sir Redvers Henry | BULLER ( loan ) | 60th Rifles ( King's Royal Rifle Corps ) |
| Egypt ( 1882 - 1889 ) | |||
| Private | Frederick | CORBETT | 3rd Bn, King's Royal Rifle Corps |
| 2nd Boer War ( 1899 - 1902 ) | |||
| Major General | Llewellyn Alberic | PRICE-DAVIES | King's Royal Rifle Corps |
| First World War ( 1914 - 1918 ) | |||
| Captain | John Fitzhardinge | BUTLER | King's Royal Rifle Corps att'd Gold Coast Regiment |
| Lieutenant Colonel | John Henry | DIMMER | 2nd Bn, King's Royal Rifle Corps |
| Corporal | Albert Edward | SHEPHERD | 12th Bn, King's Royal Rifle Corps |
| Second World War ( 1939 - 1945 ) | |||
| Rifleman | John | BEELEY | 1st Bn, King's Royal Rifle Corps |
| The Geoffrey Woolley Victoria Cross is on loan to the Royal Green Jackets Museum | |||
| Rank | First Name | Last Name | Location |
| Captain | Geoffrey | WOOLLEY | 9th ( County of London ) Bn, The London Regiment ( Queen Victoria's Rifles ) |
| Location of other King's Royal Rifle Corps VCs | |||
| Rank | First Name | Last Name | Location |
| Private | Valentine | BAMBRICK | Not publicly held |
| Sergeant | Edward | COOPER | Preston Hall Museum, Stockton-on-Tees |
| Private | John | DIVANE | Not publicly held |
| Colour Sergeant | Stephen | GARVIN | Lord Ashcroft Gallery, Imperial War Museum |
| Sergeant | Albert | GILL | Lord Ashcroft Gallery, Imperial War Museum |
| Colonel | Alfred Spencer | HEATHCOTE | Victoria Barracks, Sydney |
| Rifleman | William | MARINER | Not publicly held |
| Colonel | Percival Scrope | MARLING | Lord Ashcroft Gallery, Imperial War Museum |
| Private | George Stanley | PEACHMENT | Lord Ashcroft Gallery, Imperial War Museum |
| Ensign | Everard Aloysius | PHILLIPPS | Not publicly held ( official VC ) |
| Ensign | Everard Aloysius | PHILLIPPS | Lord Ashcroft Gallery, Imperial War Museum ( unofficial VC ) |
| Lieutenant | Frederick Hugh | ROBERTS | National Army Museum, London |
| Private | Samuel | TURNER | Not publicly held |
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