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.

BAXTER, EDWARD FELIX
 

Second Lieutenant 1st/8th Battalion the King's (Liverpool) Regiment.
 
London Gazetted on 26th September 1916.
 

VC Medal's Custodian is the Imperial War Museum.
 

Born on 18th September 1885 at Old Swinford, Stourbridge, Worcestershire.
 

Killed in action on 18th April 1916 near Blairville, France.
 

Memorial at Fillievres British Cemetery, France.

 

Digest of Citation reads:
 

On 17th/18th April, 1916 near Blairville, France, prior to a raid, Second Lieutenant Baxter was engaged on cutting wire close to the enemy's trenches. While doing this, he held a bomb with the pin withdrawn and on one occasion the bomb slipped and fell. He picked it up, unscrewed the base plug and dug out the detonator which he smothered in the ground, preventing the alarm being given an saving many casualties. Later, leading a storming party, he was first into the trench. After assisting in bombing dug-outs, he finally climbed out, and assisted the last man over the parapet. After this he was not seen again, though search parties went out at once to look for him.   There seems no doubt that he lost his life in his great devotion to duty.