The Highest Honour #35 | Bill Newton | Martin O'Meara
Bill Newton was a pilot who on multiple occasions dived through intense anti-aircraft fire to achieve his mission. He was later captured and beheaded by the Japanese. Martin O'Meara was a stretcher bearer who during one battle saved the lives of over twenty-five wounded men.
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The Highest Honour #32 | Lewis McGee | Frank McNamara
Lewis McGee was awarded the Victoria Cross for his 'coolness and bravery', but the decoration was posthumous as he was killed a week later fighting at Passchendaele, while Frank McNamara was the first Australian airman to receive the Victoria Cross.
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The Highest Honour #31 | Dominic McCarthy | Stanley McDougall
'Fats' McCarthy performed what the official war historian rated as, "perhaps the most effective feat of individual fighting in the history of the A.I.F.", while Stanley McDougall earned both the Military Medal and Victoria Cross within 8 days of each other.
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