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Conflict
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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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Borneo 1942-1945
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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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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
Neville Reginald Howse KCB, KCMG, VC
Conflict:
Second South African (Boer) War 1899-1902, World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
New South Wales Army Medical Corps, Australian Army Medical Corps, Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Service (AN&MEF)
Date of action:
24 July 1900
Place of action:
Vredefort, Orange Free State (now South Africa)
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
Albert Jacka VC , MC & Bar
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
14th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Date of action:
19 May 1915
Place of action:
Courtney's Post, Gallipoli Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
John William Alexander Jackson VC
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
17th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Date of action:
25 June 1916
Place of action:
Armentières, France
Medal location:
Privately held
Clarence Smith Jeffries VC
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
34th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Date of action:
12 October 1917
Place of action:
Passchendale, Belgium
Medal location:
Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle
Jørgen Christian Jensen VC
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
50th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 10th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Date of action:
2 April 1917
Place of action:
Noreuil, France
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Leonard Maurice Keysor VC
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
1st Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 42nd Australian Infantry Battalion
Date of action:
7 July 1915
Place of action:
Lone Pine, Gallipoli Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
John Leak VC
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
9th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Date of action:
23 June 1916
Place of action:
Pozières, France
Medal location:
Privately held
Albert David Lowerson VC
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918, World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
21st Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Date of action:
1 September 1918
Place of action:
Mont St. Quentin, France
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Robert Mactier VC
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
23rd Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Date of action:
1 September 1918
Place of action:
Mont St. Quentin, France
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Joseph Maxwell VC, MC & Bar, DCM
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918, World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
18th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Date of action:
3 October 1918
Place of action:
Estrees, France
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Leslie Cecil Maygar VC, DSO, VD
Conflict:
Second South African (Boer) War 1899-1902, World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
5th Victorian Mounted Rifles, 4th Australian Light Horse Regiment AIF, 8th Australian Light Horse Regiment AIF
Date of action:
23 November 1910
Place of action:
Geelhoutboom, Transvaal, South Africa
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Lawrence Dominic McCarthy VC
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
16th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Date of action:
23 July 1918
Place of action:
Madam Wood, near Vermandovillers France
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Lewis McGee VC
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
40th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 5th Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
Date of action:
4 October 1917
Place of action:
Broodseinde Ridge, near Ypres, Belgium
Medal location:
Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston
Rupert Theo Vance Moon VC
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
58th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Date of action:
12 April 1917
Place of action:
Bullecourt, France
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Henry William Murray VC, CMG, DSO & Bar, DCM
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918, World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
13th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 16th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 4th Australian Machine Gun Battalion AIF, 26th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 23rd Volunteer Defence Corps Queensland Regiment
Date of action:
4 February 1917
Place of action:
Gueudecourt, France
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
James Ernest Newland VC
Conflict:
Second South African (Boer) War 1899-1902, World War I 1914-1918, World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
12th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF, 4th Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse
Date of action:
7 April 1917
Place of action:
Bapaume, France
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
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