Twenty-three members of The Regiment have been awarded the Victoria Cross. They are representative of all ranks and battalions, from Private soldier to Lieutenant Colonel – Regular, Territorial and Wartime.

PROCTER, ARTHUR HERBERT
 

Private later The Reverend) 1/5th Battalion The King's (Liverpool) Regiment.
 

London Gazetted on 5th August 1916.
 

Born on 11th August 1890 at Bootle, Lancashire.
 

Died on 27th January 1973 at Sheffield, Yorkshire.
 

Memorial at Sheffield Cathedral.  Ashes in the Crypt Chapel, Sheffield Cathedral.

 

Digest of Citation reads:
 

On 4th June, 1916 near Ficheux, France, Private Procter noted some movement on the part of two wounded men who were lying in full view of the enemy about 75 yards in front of the trenches. He at once went out on his own initiative and although heavily fired at, ran and crawled to the two men, got them under cover of a small bank, dressed their wounds and promised that they would be rescued after dark. He left them some of his clothing for warmth and then returned to his own trenches, again being heavily fired at.   At dusk both wounded men were brought out alive
 

Additional information:
He served as a Chaplain with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War having been ordained in 1927.  He fought on the Somme as well as Neuve Chapelle, Festubert, Givenchy and Arras.