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This is a category listing, which serves as an index of existing Wikipedia articles about recipients of the Victoria Cross in the Vietnam War.
Australian Army Training Team Vietnam: Vietnam War: 13 November 1965* Tra Bong, Vietnam: Peter Badcoe: Australian Army Training Team Vietnam: Vietnam War: 23 February 1967 7 March 1967 7 April 1967* Huong Tra, Vietnam: Ray Simpson: Australian Army Training Team Vietnam: Vietnam War: 6–11 May 1969: Kon Tum province, Vietnam: Keith Payne
He was awarded the Victoria Cross and the principle was established that gallant conduct could be rewarded independently of any political consideration of military operations. More recently, four Australian soldiers were awarded the Victoria Cross in the Vietnam War although Britain was not involved in the conflict. [49]
Richard Norden ran into enemy fire to reach a wounded soldier and retrieve the body of another while in Vietnam.
The Victoria Cross. This is a list of recipients of the Victoria Cross by nationality. It does not include the Victoria Cross awarded to the American Unknown Soldier of World War I buried in the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery. He was awarded the VC posthumously in 1921.
Victoria Cross Lists of Victoria Cross recipients are lists of people who have been awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious of the orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom. It is awarded for valour "in the presence of the enemy" to members of the British Armed Forces. It was previously awarded to Commonwealth countries, most of which no longer recommend ...
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 ...
Video of the investiture ceremony at Government House, Canberra on 16 January 2009. The actions for which Donaldson's Victoria Cross for Australia were awarded took place on 2 September 2008. Patrolling with Afghan and US forces, they were ambushed by a well-prepared and larger Taliban force. The ambush began with sustained machine gun and ...