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For valour : Australians awarded the Victoria Cross
- Title
- For valour : Australians awarded the Victoria Cross / Craig Blanch & Aaron Pegram.
- Author
- Blanch, Craig
- Publication
- Sydney, NSW, Australia : NewSouth, 2018.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Wigmore, Lionel.
- Description
- ix, 501 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm
- Summary
- For Valour tells the remarkable stories of the 100 Australians who have been awarded the Victoria Cross for exceptional acts of bravery and self-sacrifice in battle. From Captain Neville Howse of the New South Wales Army Medical Corps in 1900 to Corporal Cameron Baird of the 2nd Commando Regiment in 2013, heroic actions in the Boer War appear alongside those from the First World War, North Russia, the Second World War, Vietnam and Afghanistan. Vivid descriptions of events on the battlefield are matched with biographical profiles of each of the recipients to provide insights into their lives outside wartime service. With a foreword from Daniel Keighran VC, new archival research and striking photographs and artworks from the Australian War Memorial, For Valour commemorates the servicemen who have been awarded the military's highest honour.
- Alternative Title
- For valor
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- History.
- Note
- "... a revised and expanded version of ... They dared mightily, written by Lionel Wigmore with Bruce Harding and published by the Australian War Memorial in 1963"--Page ix.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-494) and index.
- Contents
- Boer War, 1899-1902 -- First World War, 1914-18 -- North Russia, 1918-19 -- Second World War, 1939 -- Vietnam, 1962-75 -- Afghanistan, 2001- -- Appendix 1: Australian Victoria Cross recipients -- Appendix 2: Other Victoria Crosses associated with Australia.
- Call Number
- JFF 19-1919
- ISBN
- 9781742235424
- 1742235425
- LCCN
- 2018439473
- OCLC
- 1050588455
- Author
- Blanch, Craig, author.
- Title
- For valour : Australians awarded the Victoria Cross / Craig Blanch & Aaron Pegram.
- Publisher
- Sydney, NSW, Australia : NewSouth, 2018.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-494) and index.
- Added Author
- Wigmore, Lionel. They dared mightily.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 19-1919