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North -West Frontier 1919-1939
North -West Frontier 1919-1939
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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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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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
Unit:
5th Victorian Mounted Rifles
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
Stanley Robert McDougall VC, MM
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
47th Infantry Battalion, AIF
Date of action:
28 March 1918
Place of action:
Dernancourt, France
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Lewis McGee VC
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
40th Infantry Battalion, AIF
Date of action:
4 October 1917
Place of action:
Broodseinde Ridge, near Ypres, Belgium
Medal location:
Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston
Francis Hubert McNamara VC, CB, CBE
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918, World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
No. 1 Squadron Australian Flying Corps, No. 42 Squadron Royal Flying Corps, No. 22 Squadron Royal Flying Corps
Date of action:
20 March 1917
Place of action:
Tel el Hesi, Palestine (now Israel)
Medal location:
Royal Air Force Museum London
Rawdon Hume Middleton VC
Conflict:
World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
No. 149 Squadron RAF
Date of action:
28 November 1942
Place of action:
Turin, Italy
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
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
William Ellis Newton VC
Conflict:
World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
No. 22 Squadron RAAF
Date of action:
16 March 1943
Place of action:
Salamaua Ithmus, New Guinea (now Papua New Guinea)
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Richard Leslie Norden VC
Conflict:
Vietnam War 1962-1975
Unit:
1st Australian Reinforcement Unit, 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, 1st Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment
Date of action:
Place of action:
Medal location:
Martin O'Meara VC
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
16th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Date of action:
9 July 1916
Place of action:
Pozières, France
Medal location:
Army Museum of Western Australia
Frank John Partridge VC
Conflict:
World War II 1939-1945
Unit:
8th Australian Infantry Battalion 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)
Keith Payne VC, AM
Conflict:
Korean War 1950-1953, Vietnam War 1962-1975, Indonesian Confrontation 1962-1966
Unit:
2nd Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment, 1st Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment, Headquarters 28th British Commonwealth Brigade, 3rd Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment, Officer Training Unit, 2nd Pacific Islands Regiment, Australian Army Training Team Vietnam
Date of action:
24 May 1969
Place of action:
Kontum Province, South Vietnam (now Vietnam)
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Samuel George Pearse VC, MM
Conflict:
North Russia 1919
Unit:
45th Battalion The Royal Fusiliers British Army
Date of action:
29 July 1919
Place of action:
Yemtsa, Russia
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Walter Peeler VC, BEM
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
3rd Pioneer Battalion, AIF
Date of action:
4 October 1917
Place of action:
Broodseinde Ridge near Ypres, Belgium
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
Charles Pope VC
Conflict:
World War I 1914-1918
Unit:
11th Australian Infantry Battalion AIF
Date of action:
15 April 1917
Place of action:
Louverval, France
Medal location:
Australian War Memorial
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:
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