The Highest Honour #33 | Ron Middleton | Mick Moon
… was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross and promoted to … member of the RAAF to receive the Victoria Cross during the Second … of the Moonee Valley Racing Club and held memberships in …
The Highest Honour #37 | Samuel Pearse | Walter Peeler
… 7th Battalion and saw brief service at Gallipoli in December … he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. Samuel Pearse was … his decoration from King George V at Buckingham Palace. …
… Cadets and the Katanning Football Club. On 28 December 1914, Lewis … to let his son go on active service. Following a period of … War Medal 1914-20, and the Victory Medal for his military …
The Highest Honour #5 | Arthur Blackburn | Albert Borella
… was marked by remarkable service and courage, rising from the … Blackburn was awarded the Victoria Cross. He returned to … Borella was born in Borung, Victoria, and spent his early …
The Highest Honour #7 | Maurice Buckley | Patrick Bugden
… stationed at Hamel. During his service with the 13th Battalion, … Sergeant Buckley earned the Victoria Cross for his heroic … 100 enemy soldiers. The Victoria Cross recognition for …
The Highest Honour #41 | Clifford Sadlier | Teddy Sheean | Bill Kibby
… Sadlier was born in Camberwell, Victoria on 11 June 1892. After … before resuming front-line service later that year. He joined … A counter-attack was hastily organised using elements of the …
The Highest Honour #14 | Tom Derrick | Mark Donaldson
… bravery believed it merited the Victoria Cross. After returning to … actions earned him the Victoria Cross, awarded on 22 … might have justified a second Victoria Cross, the position …
The Highest Honour #12 | Arthur Roden Cutler | Henry Dalziel
… studies. His military service began in 1936 with the Sydney … amputation, earned him the Victoria Cross. Medical … the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in 1965. Additional …
The Highest Honour #45 | Edgar Towner | Frederick Tubb | Blair Wark
… and bravery, he was awarded the Victoria Cross, officially … Tubb was born in Longwood, Victoria on 28 November 1881. … Tubb initially served with the Victorian Mounted Rifles and later …
The Highest Honour #9 | George Cartwright | Claud Castleton
… Private George Cartwright VC (1894 - 1978, … 9 June 1917, yet continued his service. He numbered among 271 … men from the battalion who fell victim to the Germans’ intensive …
