List of living Victoria Cross recipients

As of 9 September 2007 there are eleven living Victoria Cross recipients and one recipient of the Victoria Cross for New Zealand:

Living recipients

Name	Year of award	Unit	Location of gallantry
Eric Charles Twelves Wilson	1940	The East Surrey Regiment (att'd Somaliland Camel Corps)	Observation Hill, Somaliland (now Somalia)
John Alexander Cruickshank	1944	Royal Air Force	Atlantic
Tulbahadur Pun	1944	3rd Bn, 6th Gurkha Rifles	Mogaung, Burma (now Myanmar)
Ian Edward Fraser	1945	Royal Naval Reserve	Johore Straits, Singapore
Bhanbhagta Gurung	1945	3rd Bn, 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)	Tamandu, Burma (now Myanmar)
Lachhiman Gurung	1945	4th Bn, 8th Gurkha Rifles	Taungdaw, Burma (now Myanmar)
Edward Kenna	1945	2/4th Bn, Australian Imperial Force	Wewak, New Guinea
William Speakman	1951	The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) (att'd 1st Bn, King's Own Scottish Borderers)	Korea
Rambahadur Limbu	1965	2nd Bn, 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles	Sarawak, Borneo
Keith Payne	1969	Australian Army Training Team Vietnam	Ben Het, Vietnam
Johnson Beharry	2005	1st Bn, The Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires)	Al-Amarah, Iraq
Bill Apiata	2007	New Zealand Special Air Service	Afghanistan

Name	Year of award	Unit	Location of gallantry	Deceased
Sir Tasker Watkins	1944	1/5th Bn, The Welch Regiment	Barfour, France	9 September 2007
Bryan Budd	2006	3rd Bn, The Parachute Regiment	Afghanistan	20 August 2006
Umrao Singh	1944	30 Mountain Regiment, Indian Artillery	Kaladan Valley, Burma	21 November 2005
Ernest Alvia Smith	1944	1st Bn, The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada	River Savio, Italy	3 August 2005
Richard Wallace Annand	1940	2nd Bn, The Durham Light Infantry	River Dyle, Belgium	24 December 2004
Gerard Ross Norton	1944	Kaffrarian Rifles (att'd 1/4th Bn, Hampshire Regiment)	Monte Gidolfo, Italy	29 October 2004