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.

TOMBS, JOSEPH HARCOURT
 

Lance-Corporal. 1st Battalion. King's (Liverpool) Regiment.
 

London Gazetted on 24th July 1915.
 

VC Medal's Custodian is RHQ of the King's Regiment, Bury, Lancashire.
 

Born in 1884 at Melbourne, Victoria , Australia.
 

Died on 28th June 1966 at Toronto, Canada.
 

Memorial on grave at Pine Hill Cemetery, Toronto, Canada.

 

Digest of Citation reads:
 

Lance-Corporal Tombs, on his own initiative, repeatedly made his way out under extremely heavy fire, from shell and machine-gun, in order to bring in some wounded men who were lying, approximately 100 yards, in front of our trenches. He managed to rescue four men, one of whom was so badly wounded that had he not received Medical attention, he surely would have died. Lance-Corporal Tombs dragged back by placing a rifle sling around the man's body and his own neck.  

Also received Russian Order of St George.