List of Victoria Cross recipients by campaign - Definition and Overview

The following lists detail the Victoria Cross recipients for each campaign.

• Crimean War (1854–1856) ... 111 awards
• Persian War (1856–1857) ... 3 awards
• Indian Mutiny (1857–1859) ... 182 awards
• Taranaki Maori War, New Zealand (1860–1861) ... 2 awards
• Third China War (1860–1862) ... 7 awards
• Umbeyla Campaign (1863) ... 2 awards
• Shimonoseki Expedition, Japan (1864) ... 3 awards
• T'ai P'ing Rebellion (1851–1864) ... 1 award
• Bhutan War (1864–1865) ... 2 awards
• Canada (special) (1866) ... 1 award
• The Gambia (1866) ... 1 award
• Waikato-Hauhau Maori War, New Zealand (1863–1866) ... 13 awards
• Andaman Islands Expedition (1867) ... 5 awards
• Abyssinia Expedition (1867–1868) ... 2 awards
• Looshai Expedition, India (1872) ... 1 award
• First Ashanti Expedition (1873–1874) ... 4 awards
• Malaya (1875–1876) ... 1 award
• Baluchistan (1877) ... 1 award
• Ninth Cape Frontier War (1877–1878) ... 1 award
• Zulu War (1879) ... 23 awards
• Second Afghan War (1878–1880) ... 16 awards
• Second Naga Hills Expedition (1879–1880) ... 1 award
• First Boer War (1880–1881) ... 6 awards
• Basuto War (1879–1882) ... 6 awards
• Occupation of Egypt (1882) ... 3 awards
• Sudan (1881–1885) ... 4 awards
• Chin Field Force, Burma (1889) ... 1 award
• Karen-Ni Expedition, Burma (1888–1889) ... 1 award
• Hunza-Naga Campaign, India (1891) ... 3 awards
• Manipur Expedition, India (1891) ... 1 award
• The Gambia (2nd) (1892) ... 1 award
• Kachin Hills Expedition, Burma (1892–1893) ... 1 award
• North West Frontier, India (1895) ... 1 award
• Matabeleland Rebellion, Rhodesia (1896) ... 2 awards
• Mashona Rebellion, Rhodesia (1896–1897) ... 1 award
• Crete (1898) ... 1 award
• Malakand Frontier War, India (1897–1898) ... 1 award
• Mohmand Campaign, India (1897–1898) ... 3 awards
• Tirah Campaign, India (1897–1898) 7 awards
• Boxer Rising, China (1900) ... 2 awards
• Sudan Campaign (1896–1900) ... 6 awards
• Third Ashanti Expedition (1900–1901) ... 2 awards
• Second Somaliland Expedition (1902) ... 1 award
• South African War (Boer War) (1899–1902) ... 78 awards
• Kano-Sokoto Expedition, Nigeria (1903) ... 1 award
• Third Somaliland Expedition (1902–1903) ... 3 awards
• Armed Mission to Tibet (1903–1904) ... 1 award
• Fourth Somaliland Expedition (1903–1905) ... 2 awards
• First World War (1914–1918) ... 626 awards
• North Russia Relief Force (1919) ... 5 awards
• Arab Revolt, Mesopotamia (1920) ... 1 award
• Waziristan Campaign, India (1919–1921) ... 3 awards
• Mohmand Campaign (2nd), India (1935) ... 1 award
• Second World War (1939–1945) ... 181 awards
• Korean War (1950–1953) ... 4 awards
• Malaysia-Indonesia Confrontation (1963–1966) ... 1 award
• Vietnam War (1959–1975) ... 4 awards
• Falklands War (1982) ... 2 awards