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North -West Frontier 1919-1939
North -West Frontier 1919-1939
North Russian Relief Force 1918-1919
Russian Civil War 1917-1925
Sudan War 1885
The International Force East Timor 1999-2000
Third Anglo-Afghan War 1919
United Nations Mission of Support to East Timor (UNMISET) 2002-2005
South African War 1899-1902
Second South African (Boer) War 1899-1902
World War I 1914-1918
North Russia 1919
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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 Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 56th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, Commonwealth Military Forces (CMF), 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
Thomas Leslie Axford VC, MM
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918, World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
16th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, Headquarters Western Command AIF
Date of action:
4 June 1918
Place of action:
Hamel Wood, France
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Arthur Seaforth Blackburn VC, CMG, CBE, ED
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918, World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
10th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 2/3rd Machine Gun Battalion, 18th Light Horse Regiment, 2/43rd Infantry Battalion, 2nd Australian War Crimes Section
Date of action:
23 July 1916
Place of action:
Pozières, France
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Albert Chalmers Borella VC, MM
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918, World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
26th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Date of action:
17 June 1918
Place of action:
Villers-Bretonneux, France
Medal location:
Privately held
Walter Ernest Brown VC, DCM
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918, World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
20th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 1st Australian Field Butchery AIF, 2nd Australian Field Butcher AIF, 55th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 2/15th Field Artillery Regiment AIF
Date of action:
6 June 1019
Place of action:
Villers-Bretonneux, France
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
George Cartwright VC, ED
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918, World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
33rd Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 4/3rd Battalion CMF
Date of action:
31 July 1918
Place of action:
Road Wood, south-west of Bouchavesnes near Péronne, France
Medal location:
Imperial War Museum, London
Albert Edward Chowne VC, MM
Conflict:
World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
2/2nd Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 2/13th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 36th Militia Battalion CMF
Date of action:
25 March 1945
Place of action:
Dagua, New Guinea (now Papua New Guinea)
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 AIF
Date of action:
19 June 1941
Place of action:
Merdjayoun-Damour, Lebanon
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Henry Dalziel VC
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918, World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
15th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 9/15th Battalion CMF
Date of action:
4 June 1918
Place of action:
Hamel Wood, France
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Thomas Currie Derrick VC, DCM
Conflict:
World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
2/48th Australian Infantry Battalion 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 Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 4th Battalion AMF
Date of action:
13 April 1941
Place of action:
Tobruk, Libya
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
John Alexander French VC
Conflict:
World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
2/9 Australian Infantry Battalion
Date of action:
4 September 1942
Place of action:
Milne Bay, Papua (now Papua New Guinea)
Medal location:
Privately held
James Hannah Gordon VC
Conflict:
World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
2/31st Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Date of action:
10 July 1941
Place of action:
Djezzine, Syria
Medal location:
Privately held
Percival Eric Gratwick VC
Conflict:
World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
2/48th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
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 AIF
Date of action:
22 July 1942
Place of action:
Tel el Eisa, Egypt
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
John Patrick Hamilton VC
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918, World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
3rd Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 16th Garrison Battalion AIF, 2/3rd Pioneer Battalion AIF
Date of action:
9 September 1915
Place of action:
Lone Pine, Gallipoli Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
George Julian Howell VC, MM
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918, World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
1st Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, Eastern Command Headquarters, United States Sea Transport Service
Date of action:
6 May 1917
Place of action:
Bullecourt, France
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
George Mawby Ingram VC, MM
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918, World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
24th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 3rd Battalion Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN&MEF), Royal Australian Engineers
Date of action:
5 October 1918
Place of action:
Montbrehain, France
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Reginald Roy Inwood VC
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918, World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
10th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, Australian Provost Corps CMF
Date of action:
19 September 1917
Place of action:
Polygon Wood, Belgium
Medal location:
Adelaide Town Hall
William Donovan Joynt VC
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918, World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
8th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 3rd Garrison Battalion CMF
Date of action:
23 August 1918
Place of action:
Herleville Wood near Chuignes, France
Medal location:
Privately held
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