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Australian Gallipoli Campaign Recipients of the Victoria Cross: Alfred Shout, Albert Jacka, Leonard Keysor, Hugo Vivian Hope Throssell Decorations of the Royal Air Force: Victoria Cross The story of the Victoria Cross, 1856-1963, by Sir John George Smyth, 1963 Four Victoria Cross obituaries: four Victoria Cross recipients passed away between November 2001 and February 2002.: An article from: Sabretache by Anthony Staunton, 2002-06-01 John Mulholland and Alan Jordan. Victoria Cross Bibliography.(Book Review) (book review): An article from: Sabretache by Anthony Staunton, 2003-03-01 New Zealand Wars Recipients of the Victoria Cross: List of New Zealand Land Wars Victoria Cross Recipients, John Carstairs Mcneill Second Anglo-Afghan War Recipients of the Victoria Cross: George Stuart White, James William Adams, O'moore Creagh, James Collis Thomas Ricketts: Victoria Cross, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Royal Newfoundland Regiment, Canadian War Museum, Dominion, World War I, Thomas Flinn, Jack Cornwell The Book Of The V. C.: A Record Of The Deeds Of Heroism For Which The Victoria Cross Has Been Bestowed (1906) Rhodesian Recipients of the Victoria Cross: Rhodesian World War Ii Recipients of the Victoria Cross Military Awards and Decorations of Australia: Victoria Cross for Australia Australian World War I Recipients of the Victoria Cross: Harry Murray Liverpool's Heroes: The Stories of 16 Liverpool Holders of the Victoria Cross Stories of Adventure and Heroism. Comprising: James Greenwood: Silas Horner"s Adventures. robinson crusoe brave british soldiers and the victoria Cross by Greenwood James Daniel Defoe (Anon), 1891

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121. VictoriaCross
     Victoria Cross (Great Britian). The Victoria Cross is England’s highest awardfor valor. The Victoria Cross is Great Britain s highest award for valor.  
     http://www.hotlinecy.com/victoriacross.htm
     
     Extractions: powered by FreeFind The areas below have been recently updated. Signed Books by Heroes Medal of Honor Displays Victoria Cross Displays Knights Cross Displays ... Other Hero Display s Honor Your Vet Displays Wholesale Glass Top Display Cases Book Search Engine Civil War Books ... Contact Cy More to come... Medal of Honor Page Civil War Page Other Heroes Page German Knights Cross Page ... Signed Books Victoria Cross (Great Britian) The Victoria Cross is England’s highest award for valor. Since this award was instituted in 1854, only 1,354 have been awarded. A little, known fact, even to many "experts," is that the metal used to forge every Victoria Cross is tended by the 15th Regiment, Royal Logistic Corps in Donnington. The VC metal rarely sees the light of day as it is secured in special vaults and is removed only under exceptional circumstances; however, recently, this item of national history was transported to the Imperial War Museum in London for the royal opening of the Victoria Cross and George Cross Exhibition. The metal, weighing 358 ounces and looking somewhat like a lump of cheese is all that remains of the bronze cascabels from two Russian cannon captured at Sebastopol, the last great battle of the Crimean War in 1854-55. The cascabel is a large knob at the rear of the cannon. The two cannon, minus cascabels, stand proudly outside the Officers Mess in Woolwich. Items with no picture or description are ones I am still working on. I have 100+ VC autographs.

122. The Victoria Cross: Jervis Bay - Ross Memorial Park: Heritage Resources Saint Jo
     The Victoria Cross. As Reported by the Canadian Press, November 17, 1940 VictoriaCross to Captain Fegen. Hero of HMS Jervis Bay, Lost with Ship, is Honored.  
     http://www.saintjohn.nbcc.nb.ca/~JervisBay/vcmedal.htm
     
     Extractions: Victoria Cross to Captain Fegen Hero of H.M.S. Jervis Bay, Lost with Ship, is Honored. London, Nov. 17 - (C.P.) - A sturdy Irish captain - Fogarty Fegen - who went down with his ship, H.M.S. Jervis Bay, her guns blazing and her colors flying, was awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously yesterday. The Jervis Bay was sunk Nov. 5 as she challenged a powerful German raider in the mid-Atlantic. The "suicide" stand of the armed merchant cruiser allowed at least 33 of 38 ships in the convoy to escape. The Admiralty announced that four ships were sunk by the raider and that one other ship still was unaccounted for. Another ship also escaped from the raider but later fell victim to enemy aircraft. Captain Fegen, 49, went to his death maintaining the great traditions of the Royal Navy. During the First Great War he served as a lieutenant and later was in command of the destroyers

123. Cross Recipients
     The highest medals awarded for bravery were the Victoria Cross and theGeorge Cross. These recipients. Victoria Cross, The Victoria Cross.  
     http://collections.ic.gc.ca/courage/crossrecipients.html
     
     Extractions: Cross Recipients Countless acts of bravery and heroism went unnoticed or unrecorded during the World Wars. Where outstanding acts of courage were witnessed and documented, the individuals were honoured by the Commonwealth for their acts of heroism and bravery by several kinds of military medals. The highest medals awarded for bravery were the Victoria Cross and the George Cross. These medals are described below, followed by the stories of some of Canada's Victoria Cross and George Cross recipients. The Victoria Cross, instituted in 1856 by Queen Victoria, is the premiere Commonwealth decoration for heroism in combat. It is awarded in recognition of conspicuous bravery in the presence of the enemy. The decoration, in the form of a bronze cross whose four arms become much wider as they extend from the center, bears the Royal Crest and the words "For Valour." It is suspended from a dark crimson ribbon. Since a Canadian, Lieutenant Alexander Roberts Dunn, won the Victoria Cross in the charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War, ninety-three Canadians have received the award, sixty-nine of them in the First World War and sixteen in the Second World War. The Victoria Cross could not be awarded to a civilian. However, during the aerial bombing on Britain early in World War Two, it soon became obvious that citizens should be rewarded for their numerous acts of conspicuous bravery. In response, King George VI established the George Cross in 1940. It is awarded in recognition of extraordinary acts of bravery by civilian or military personnel.

124. Victoria Cross Recipients
     Victoria Cross Recipients. The following list of Victoria Cross recipientsis not complete. These are the Canadian recipients who  
     http://collections.ic.gc.ca/courage/victoriacrossrecipients.html
     
     Extractions: Victoria Cross Recipients The following list of Victoria Cross recipients is not complete. These are the Canadian recipients who fought in the First and Second World Wars. The highlighted names in the following lists have a link to a brief account of what the recipient did in order to receive the commendation. Algie, Wallace Lloyd

125. Red Cross: Iraqi Abuse Widespread, Routine : IMC Victoria
     It says the Red Cross informed the commander of British forces in April 2003 of ``illtreatment by military intelligence 2000-2002 Victoria Independent Media  
     http://victoria.indymedia.org/news/2004/05/25704.php
     
     Extractions: By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS Associated Press Writer GENEVA (AP) - Up to 90 percent of Iraqi detainees were arrested by mistake, according to coalition intelligence officers cited in a Red Cross report disclosed Monday. It also said U.S. officers mistreated inmates at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison by keeping them naked in totally dark, empty cells. While many detainees were quickly released or no longer mistreated after interrogation, high-ranking officials in Saddam Hussein's government - including those listed on the U.S. military's deck of cards - were held for months in solitary confinement, The Associated Press has learned.

126. Winning The Victoria Cross - Land & Sea Tales - For Scouts And Guides - Rudyard
     Land Sea Tales. Winning the Victoria Cross. Rudyard Kipling. They enjoyed themselvesimmensely, and the little aidede-camp got a deserved Victoria Cross.  
     http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/LandandSe
     
     Extractions: Winning the Victoria Cross T HE HISTORY of the Victoria Cross has been told so often that it is only necessary to say that the Order was created by Queen Victoria on January 29th, 1856, in the year of the peace with Russia, when the new racing Cunard paddle-steamer Persia of three thousand tons was making thirteen knots between England and America, and all the world wondered at the advance of civilization and progress. There are many kinds of bravery, and if one looks through the records of the four hundred and eleven men, living and dead, that have held the Victoria Cross before the Great War, one finds instances of every imaginable variety of heroism. There is bravery in the early morning, when it takes great courage even to leave warm blankets, let alone walk into dirt, cold and death; on foot and on horse; empty or fed; sick or well; coolness of brain that thinks out a plan at dawn and holds to it all through the long, murderous day bravery of the mind that makes the jerking nerves hold still and do nothing except show a good example ; sheer reckless strength that hacks through a crowd of amazed men and comes out grinning on the other side; enduring spirit that wears through a long siege, never losing heart or manners or temper; quick, flashing bravery that heaves a lighted shell overboard or rushes the stockade while others are gaping at it; and the calculated craftsmanship that camps alone before the angry rifle-pit or shell-hole, and cleanly and methodically wipes out every soul in it.

127. City Of Chilliwack - Victoria Cross & Inspiration - Piper Richardson - Chilliwac
     The Victoria Cross is the British and Commonwealth’s highest decorationfor gallantry in the face of the enemy. Piper Richardson  
     http://www.gov.chilliwack.bc.ca/main/page.cfm?id=728

128. Royal Navy: The Victoria Cross
     The Victoria Cross. Both Capt Bamford and Sergeant Finch were selectedby members of their own Battalion to receive the Victoria Cross.  
     http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/static/pages/2661.html

129. The Royal Scots, The Royal Regiment, Victoria Cross Awards
     Queen Victoria instituted a new award, the Victoria Cross, made from the bronzeof Russian guns captured after the siege of Sebastopol in 1855. VC Citations.  
     http://www.aboutscotland.com/theroyalscots/honsawards.html
     
     Extractions: Queen's Colour (59K image) Queen Victoria instituted a new award, the Victoria Cross, made from the bronze of Russian guns captured after the siege of Sebastopol in 1855. It is given for exceptional gallantry by individuals in the face of the enemy and the honour is the same for all ranks. Private Joseph Prosser was awarded the first Victoria Cross gained by a member of the Regiment. His medals are shown above, right. Citation: "On the 16th june, 1855, when on duty in the Trenches before Sebastopol, by pursuing and apprehending (while exposed to two cross fires) a soldier of the 88th, in the act of deserting the enemy. On the 11th August, 1855, before Sebastopol, by leaving the utmost advanced Trench, and carrying a soldier of the 95th Regt. who lay severely wounded and unable to move. This gallant and humane act was performed under very heavy fire from the enemy" Private H H Robson, 2nd Battalion.

130. The Victoria Cross
     The Victoria Cross. Of The Victoria Cross (VC) was instituted on 29 January1856 and was made retrospective from 1 August 1854. Prior  
     http://www.anzacday.org.au/education/medals/vc/default.html
     
     Extractions: The Victoria Cross Of all the orders and decorations open to members of the Australian Defence Force, the Victoria Cross remains the most honoured, the most coveted. It marks its wearer as one possessing supreme courage, a disregard for danger and complete devotion to duty. The Victoria Cross (VC) was instituted on 29 January 1856 and was made retrospective from 1 August 1854. Prior to the Crimean War, there was no recognised gallantry medal, but the individual deeds in that war made the creation of such an award, available to officers and men alike, necessary. The Victoria Cross, according to the Instituting Royal Warrant establishing rules and ordinances governing its bestowal, shall only be awarded for the most conspicuous bravery or some daring or pre-eminent act of valour or self-sacrifice or extreme devotion to duty in the presence of the enemy. In the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette No. 525 Monday 4 February 1991, the Victoria Cross took its place as the highest Australian award in the Australian System of Honours and Awards. It may be awarded to members of the Defence Force or other persons determined by the Minister of State for Defence. Bars are awarded for further similar acts of bravery. The Victoria Cross may also be awarded posthumously and recipients are entitled to use the letters VC after their names.

131. The Victoria Cross
     The Victoria Cross. Information about the Victoria Cross is now consolidated ina special segment of the website. Traditions, Facts and Folklore front page.  
     http://www.anzacday.org.au/education/tff/vc.html

132. Designer Divas Cross & Chain In The Style Of Victoria Beckham
     Click here to find the Designer Divas Cross Chain in thestyle of Victoria Beckham and other celebrity fashion.  
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133. Masonic Recipients Of The Victoria Cross
     MASONIC BIOGRAPHIES FAMOUS FREEMASONS. Masonic recipients of the VictoriaCross. The list of 133 names has been removed at the compiler s request.  
     http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/biography/victoria_cross/masonic_recipients.html

134. BBC NEWS | England | London | Record Price For Victoria Cross
     A Victoria Cross awarded to a Second World War airman is sold for £235, 250 at auction. Recordprice for Victoria Cross. Mr Jackson left the medal to his wife.  
     http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/1/hi/england/london/3673277.stm
     
     Extractions: Mr Jackson left the medal to his wife A Victoria Cross awarded to an airman who climbed onto a Lancaster bomber's wing at 20,000ft to put out a fire has sold for a record price. It went for £235,250 at the Spink auction house in London on Friday, smashing the old record for a VC of £178,250. The medal belonged to Norman Jackson, from Ealing, west London, who was a warrant officer. It was bought by a private collector and will stay in the country. Spink's executive director Paul Barthaud said: "It is particularly rare because it is an RAF medal and it has a particularly touching history. It was Boy's Own stuff." Mr Jackson was 25 when his crew came under fire from a German fighter on a bombing raid on the town of Schweinfurt in April 1944. Mr Jackson survived a 20,000ft fall He climbed out of the cockpit into a slipstream to try to put out the flames, before falling off and crashing to the ground under a burning parachute. Despite serious injuries, he managed to crawl to a nearby German village and spent 10 months in hospital before being transferred to a prisoner of war (POW) camp.

135. Australian Red Cross
     School projects. Fun. State Territory, Survey. SEARCH You can t get AIDS byhugging , March is Red Cross Calling. Working overseas with Australian Red Cross,  
     http://www.redcross.org.au/

136. Our Website Is Now Located At Http
     Our website is now located at. www.redcross.org.au/vic_default.htm.  
     http://home.vicnet.net.au/~redcross/

137. Our Website Is Now Located At Http
     Our website is now located at. www.redcross.org.au/vic_default.htm  
     http://www.vicnet.net.au/~redcross

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