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Victoria Cross Recipients
Victoria Cross Recipients
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Sudan War 1885
South African War 1899-1902
Second South African (Boer) War 1899-1902
World War I 1914-1918
North Russia 1919
World War II 1939-1945
North Africa and Syria 1940–1942
Borneo 1942-1945
British Commonwealth Occupation Force 1945-1952
Peace operations since 1947
Korean War 1950-1953
Indonesian Confrontation 1962-1966
Malayan Emergency 1948-1960
Vietnam War 1962-1975
Cyprus (UNFICYP) 1964-
Namibia (UNTAG) 1989-1990
Gulf War 1990-1991
First Gulf War 1991
Cambodia UNTAC 1992-1993
Mozambique (ONUMOZ) 1992-1994
Somalia 1992-1995
Rwanda (UNAMIR) 1993-1996
INTERFET 1999-2000
East Timor 1999-2013
Solomon Islands IPMT 2000-2002
War in Afghanistan 2001-2021
Second Gulf War 2003-2009
Iraq War 2003-2013
Solomon Islands (RAMSI) 2003-2013
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Charles Groves Wright Anderson VC, MC
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918, World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
2/19th Infantry Battalion, 2nd AIF, 56th Australian Infantry Battalion, Commonwealth Military Forces, 3rd (Kenyan) Battalion, Kings African Rifles
Date of action:
18 January 1942
Place of action:
Muar River, Malaya (now Malaysia)
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Arthur Roden Cutler VC, AK, KCMG, KCVO, CBE
Conflict:
World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
2/5th Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery, 2nd AIF
Date of action:
19 June 1941
Place of action:
Merdjayoun-Damour, Lebanon
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Thomas Currie Derrick VC, DCM
Conflict:
World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
2/48th Infantry Battalion, 2nd AIF
Date of action:
24 November 1943
Place of action:
Sattelberg, New Guinea (now Papua New Guinea)
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
John Hurst Edmondson VC
Conflict:
World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
2/17th Infantry Battalion, 2nd AIF
Date of action:
13 April 1941
Place of action:
Tobruk, Libya
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Percival Eric Gratwick VC
Conflict:
World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
2/48th Australian Infantry Battalion
Date of action:
25 October 1942
Place of action:
El Alamein, Egypt
Medal location:
Army Museum of Western Australia
Arthur Stanley Gurney VC
Conflict:
World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
2/48th Australian Infantry Battalion
Date of action:
22 July 1942
Place of action:
Tel el Eisa, Egypt
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Edward Kenna VC
Conflict:
World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
2/4th Australian Infantry Battalion
Date of action:
Place of action:
Medal location:
Bruce Steel Kingsbury VC
Conflict:
World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
2/14th Infantry Battalion, 2nd AIF
Date of action:
29 July 1942
Place of action:
Isurava, Papua (now Papua New Guinea)
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
John Bernard Mackey VC
Conflict:
World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
2/3rd Pioneer Battalion, 2nd AIF
Date of action:
12 May 1945
Place of action:
Tarakan Island, Borneo Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia)
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Frank John Partridge VC
Conflict:
World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
8th Battalion (City of Ballarat Regiment), 2nd AIF
Date of action:
24 June 1945
Place of action:
Bougainville Island, New Guinea (now Papua New Guinea)
Medal location:
Bougainville Island, New Guinea (now Papua New Guinea)
Reginald Roy Rattey VC
Conflict:
World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
25th Infantry Battalion, 2nd AIF
Date of action:
22 March 1945
Place of action:
Bougainville Island, New Guinea (now Papua New Guinea)
Medal location:
Privately held
Rayene Stewart Simpson VC, DCM
Conflict:
World War II 1939-1945, Malayan Emergency 1948-1960, Korean War 1950-1953, Vietnam War 1962-1975
Unit:
41/2 Infantry Battalion, 2/3 Pioneer Battalion, Advanced Ordnance Depot, 26th Australian Infantry Battalion, 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, 1st Special Air Service Company, Australian Army Training Team Vietnam, 1st Battalion, Royal New South Wales Regiment
Date of action:
6 May 1969
Place of action:
Kontum Province, South Vietnam (now Vietnam)
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Leslie Thomislav Starcevich VC
Conflict:
World War II 1939-1945, Borneo 1942-1945, North Africa and Syria 1940–1942
Unit:
2/43rd Infantry Battalion, 2nd AIF
Date of action:
28 June 1945
Place of action:
Beaufort, British North Borneo (now Malaysia)
Medal location:
Army Museum of Western Australia
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