List of Australian Victoria Cross recipients

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The Australian War Memorial, which currently holds 66 VCs.

The Victoria Cross (VC) is a military decoration awarded for valour "in the presence of the enemy"[1] to members of the Australian Defence Force. It may be awarded to a person of any rank in any service, and to civilians under military command. Being the highest award in the Australian Honours Order of Wearing, the VC takes precedence over all other postnominals and Australian orders and decorations. The VC was instituted by Queen Victoria in 1856, initially to reward acts of valour during the Crimean War. Because of its rarity and inherent significance, the VC is highly prized, both as an award and as a collector's item, with one medal being sold for over A$1 million at auction.[2] Australians have received the VC under the Imperial honours system and later under the Australian Honours System, when in 1991 a new but equivalent award was established by letters patent within the Commonwealth of Australia and its Territories, known as the Victoria Cross for Australia. The Victoria Cross for Australia has been awarded five times: twice to Special Air Service Regiment members, once to a member of the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, and a posthumous award to a member of the 2nd Commando Regiment, and a posthumous award to Teddy Sheean. The first four were for actions in the War in Afghanistan while Sheean's was for actions during World War II.

The Imperial VC has been awarded to 96 Australians—91 were received for actions whilst serving with Australian forces, and another five to former members of the Australian forces then serving with South African and British forces. The majority of the awards were for action in the First World War when a total of 64 medals were awarded. Nine of these awards were for action during the Gallipoli Campaign. 20 medals were awarded for action in the Second World War, 6 in the Second Boer War, 4 in the Vietnam War and 2 in the Russian Civil War.[1] Twenty-eight Australians have been awarded the medal posthumously.[3] One recipient—Captain Alfred Shout VC, MC (who was also Mentioned in Despatches)—was Australia's most decorated soldier of the Gallipoli campaign. His Victoria Cross was posthumously awarded after Shout died of his wounds during the Battle of Lone Pine.[4] Another 19 VCs have been awarded to soldiers who were either born in Australia, or died there, but did not serve in Australian units before being awarded the VC, and as such these are not included in this list.[5]

Keith Payne is the only living Australian recipient of the original VC; there are three living recipients of the Victoria Cross for Australia.

Recipients

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Victoria Cross

Name Date of action Conflict Unit Place of action Location of medal
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1942 Second World War 2/19th Battalion Muar River, Malaya AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918 First World War 16th Battalion Hamel Wood, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1967* Vietnam War Australian Army Training Team Huong Tra, Vietnam AWM[7]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918* First World War 8th Battalion Rosieres, France Queensland Museum
South Bank[8][9]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1901 Second Boer War West Australia Mounted Infantry Transvaal, South Africa Western Australian
Museum[10]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1917* First World War 6th Battalion Ypres, Belgium AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1900 Second Boer War Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen Warm Bad, South Africa Tasmanian Museum
and Art Gallery[11]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1916 First World War 10th Battalion Pozières, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918 First World War 26th Battalion Villers-Bretonneux, France Privately held
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918 First World War 20th Battalion Villers-Bretonneux, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918* First World War 54th Battalion Péronne, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918 First World War 13th Battalion Le Verguier, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1917* First World War 31st Battalion Zonnebeke, Belgium Queensland Museum
South Bank[8]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1915* First World War 7th Battalion Gallipoli, Turkey AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1917 First World War 33rd Battalion St. Yves, Belgium AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918 First World War 33rd Battalion Bouchavesnes, France Imperial War Museum
London[12]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1916* First World War Australian Machine Gun Corps Pozières, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1917* First World War 26th Battalion Lagnicourt, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1945* Second World War 2/2nd Battalion Dagua, New Guinea AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1916* First World War 8th Battalion Pozières, France Army Museum
New Zealand[13]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918 First World War 53rd Battalion Péronne, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1941 Second World War 2/5th Field Regiment, RRoAA Merdjayoun-Damour, Lebanon AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918 First World War 15th Battalion Hamel Wood, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1915* First World War 25th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers Maktau, Kenya AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918 First World War 10th Battalion Merris, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1943 Second World War 2/48th Battalion Sattelberg, New Guinea AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1915 First World War 7th Battalion Gallipoli, Turkey AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1917 First World War Australian Machine Gun Corps Zonnebeke, Belgium AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1941* Second World War 2/17th Battalion Tobruk, Libya AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1941 Second World War No. 105 Squadron RAF Bremen, Germany AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1942* Second World War 2/9th Battalion Milne Bay, Papua Privately held
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918* First World War 28th Battalion Villers-Bretonneux, France Tasmanian Museum
and Art Gallery[11]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918 First World War 41st Battalion Bray, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1941 Second World War 2/31st Battalion Djezzine, Syria Privately held
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1942* Second World War 2/48th Battalion El Alamein, Egypt Army Museum of
Western Australia[14]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1917 First World War 37th Battalion Messines, Belgium Shrine of Remembrance
Melbourne[15][16]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1942* Second World War 2/48th Battalion Tel-el-Eisa, Egypt AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918 First World War 54th Battalion Péronne, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1915 First World War 3rd Battalion Gallipoli, Turkey AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1917 First World War 1st Battalion Bullecourt, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1900 Second Boer War New South Wales Medical Staff Corps Vredefort, South Africa AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918 First World War 24th Battalion Montbrehain, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1917 First World War 10th Battalion Polygon Wood, Belgium Adelaide Town Hall[17]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1915 First World War 14th Battalion Gallipoli, Turkey AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1916 First World War 17th Battalion Armentieres, France Privately held
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1917* First World War 34th Battalion Passchendaele, Belgium Christ Church Cathedral,
Newcastle, N.S.W.[18]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1917 First World War 50th Battalion Noreuil, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918 First World War 8th Battalion Herleville Wood, France Melbourne Grammar School[19]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1943 Second World War 2/25th Battalion Nadzab, New Guinea AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1945 Second World War 2/4th Battalion Wewak, New Guinea unknown[20]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1917 First World War 2nd Battalion Hermies, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1915 First World War 1st Battalion Gallipoli, Turkey AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1942* Second World War 2/48th Battalion El Alamein, Egypt AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1942* Second World War 2/14th Battalion Isurava, Papua AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1916 First World War 9th Battalion Pozières, France Privately held
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918 First World War 21st Battalion Mont St. Quentin, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1945* Second World War 2/3rd Pioneer Battalion Tarakan Island, Borneo AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918* First World War 23rd Battalion Mont St. Quentin, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918 First World War 18th Battalion Estrees, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1901 Second Boer War 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles Geelhoutboom, South Africa AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918 First World War 16th Battalion Madam Wood, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918 First World War 47th Battalion Dernancourt, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1917* First World War 40th Battalion Ypres, Belgium Queen Victoria Museum
and Art Gallery,
Launceston[21]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1917 First World War No. 1 Squadron AFC Tel el Hesi, Palestine RAF Museum, London[22]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1942* Second World War RAAF attached No. 149 Squadron RAF Turin, Italy AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1917 First World War 58th Battalion Bullecourt, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1917 First World War 13th Battalion Gueudecourt, France AWM
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1917 First World War 12th Battalion Bapaume, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1943* Second World War No. 22 Squadron RAAF New Guinea AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1916 First World War 16th Battalion Pozières, France Army Museum of
Western Australia[14]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1945 Second World War 8th (Militia) Battalion Bougainville, New Guinea Privately held
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1969 Vietnam War Australian Army Training Team Ben Het, Vietnam AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1919* North Russia Relief Force 45th Battalion, RF Emtsa, Russia AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1917 First World War 3rd Pioneer Battalion Ypres, Belgium AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1917* First World War 11th Battalion Louveral, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1945 Second World War 25th Battalion Bougainville, New Guinea Privately held
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1901 Second Boer War South African Constabulary Thaba 'Nchu, South Africa AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918 First World War 22nd Battalion Ville-sur-Ancre, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918 First World War 55th Battalion Hindenburg Defences, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918 First World War 51st Battalion Villers-Bretonneux, France St George's Cathedral
Perth W.A.[23]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1915* First World War 1st Battalion Gallipoli, Turkey AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1969 Vietnam War Australian Army Training Team Kontum Province, Vietnam AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1945 Second World War 2/43rd Battalion Beaufort, British North Borneo Army Museum of
Western Australia[14]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918 First World War 40th Battalion Proyart, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918 First World War 19th Battalion Hangard Wood, France Army Museum
New Zealand[13]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1919 North Russia Relief Force 45th Battalion, RF Sheika River, Russia AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1915 First World War 7th Battalion Gallipoli, Turkey AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1915 First World War 10th Light Horse Gallipoli, Turkey AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918 First World War Australian Machine Gun Corps Mont St. Quentin, France Privately held
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1915 First World War 7th Battalion Gallipoli, Turkey AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918 First World War 32nd Battalion Bellicourt, France Queensland Museum
South Bank[8][24]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918 First World War 43rd Battalion Peronne, France Privately held
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1965* Vietnam War Australian Army Training Team Tra Bong, Vietnam AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1917 First World War 12th Battalion Boursies, France AWM[6][25]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1918 First World War 48th Battalion Le Verguier, France AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1900 Second Boer War Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen Warm Bad, South Africa Tasmanian Museum
and Art Gallery[11]

Victoria Cross for Australia

Name Date of action Conflict Unit Place of action Location of medal
Script error: No such module "Sort". 2013* War in Afghanistan 2nd Commando Regiment Khod Valley, Afghanistan AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 2008 War in Afghanistan Special Air Service Regiment Urozgan Province, Afghanistan AWM[6][26]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 2010 War in Afghanistan 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment Urozgan Province, Afghanistan AWM[6]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 2010 War in Afghanistan Special Air Service Regiment Kandahar Province, Afghanistan AWM[6][27]
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1942* Second World War HMAS Armidale Arafura Sea, East Timor AWM.
Script error: No such module "Sort". 1968* Vietnam War 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment Bình Dương province, South Vietnam

Note: Richard Norden was awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia in 2024 posthumously after his death in 1972 from unrelated causes.[28]

References

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  5. ↑ Wigmore 1986, pp. 180–187.
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  9. ↑ Robert Beatham's medal, owned by Mr Neil Jenman and Mrs Ruth Jenman, is on loan to the Queensland Museum until 2012.
  10. ↑ Lieutenant Colonel Frederick William Bell Template:Webarchive, victoriacross.org.uk
  11. ↑ a b c VC medals in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart Template:Webarchive, victoriacross.org.uk
  12. ↑ Anthony Staunton, Cartwright, George (1894 - 1978), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13, Melbourne University Press, 1993, p. 379. Retrieved on 2009-03-03.
  13. ↑ a b VC medals in the Army Museum, New Zealand Template:Webarchive, victoriacross.org.uk
  14. ↑ a b c Items of significance Template:Webarchive, Army Museum of Western Australia, 4 January 2009. Retrieved on 2009-03-03.
  15. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  16. ↑ Robert Grieve's medal is on loan to the Shrine by its owners, Wesley College
  17. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  18. ↑ Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries Memorial Park (Abermain) Template:Webarchive, Register of War Memorials in New South Wales, 2002. Retrieved on 2009-03-03.
  19. ↑ William Joynt's VC medal was donated to Melbourne Grammar School where it is currently held.
  20. ↑ Kenna's VC had been on loan to the AWM since 9 April 2010 - see AWM Media Release 335 Template:Webarchive - but no longer appears on the War Memorial's list of Victoria Crosses held at the Memorial Template:Webarchive.
  21. ↑ Co Sergeant Major Lewis McGee Template:Webarchive, victoriacross.org.uk
  22. ↑ VC medals in the RAF Museum, London Template:Webarchive, victoriacross.org.uk
  23. ↑ "A History and Detailed Guide to St George's Cathedral"Script error: No such module "Unsubst"., Revised 2007, pp.10&14. Retrieved on 2009-03-03.
  24. ↑ Blair Wark's medal, owned by the United Service Club Queensland, is on loan to the Queensland Museum until 2012.
  25. ↑ Whittle's VC has been on loan to the AWM since October 2009 - see AWM Media Release 296 Template:Webarchive.
  26. ↑ Donaldson's VC has been on loan to the AWM since January 2009 - see AWM Media Release 215 Template:Webarchive.
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