Remembering WW1 Victoria Cross overseas recipients
175 men from 11 overseas countries were awarded the Victoria Cross during the First World War. In June 2014, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office launched a campaign to mark the UK's gratitude by presenting bronze memorial plaques to their home countries. The second part of the campaign tells their courageous stories in a digital archive. [Access the archive](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/archive-commemorating-overseas-ww1-victoria-cross-recipients) and find out more about the campaign below.
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Launching the digital archive
Today we launch a remarkable collection of stories from the First World War. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is remembering the stories of 175 men from...
WW1 Canadian VC recipient John Chipman Kerr
Private Kerr was awarded his Victoria Cross for most conspicuous bravery near Courcelette in France on 16 September 1916, towards the end of the Battle of...
WW1 South African VC recipient Wiliam Anderson Bloomfield
Captain Bloomfield was awarded his Victoria Cross for most conspicuous bravery at Mlali (now in Tanzania) on 24 August 1916.
WW1 New Zealand VC recipient Donald Forrester Brown
Donald Forrester Wood was the first member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force on the Western Front to be awarded the Victoria Cross.
WW1 Indian VC recipient Lala
Lala was awarded the Victoria Cross for most conspicuous bravery on 21 January 1916 during the First Battle of Hanna in Mesopotamia.
WW1 Canadian VC recipient James (Jimmy) Cleland Richardson
James Cleland Richardson (known as Jimmy) was born on 25 November 1895 in Belshill,
