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Canadian hero honoured in Italian campaign
Roccasecca :: Italy | about 22 hours ago
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Veterans and youth placed a wreath where a Canadian soldier became a historic war hero today. The group, which includes five Second World War veterans, gathered at a monastery nestled in the rolling hills to honour Maj...His company held position for...
Tags: John Keefer Mahony, Italian, Italy, Roccasecca, Victoria Cross, Paul Triquet, Demers
Lord Ashcroft pays £1.5m for double VC
Oxford :: United Kingdom | 9 days ago
Credibility Billionaire Lord Ashcroft paid the record-breaking price for the medals awarded to Captain Noel Chavasse, who received one of only three double VCs — known as a VC and bar — given since the medal was created in 1865. Chavasse had already won the Military...
Tags: Billionaire Lord Ashcroft, Noel Chavasse, double vcs, United Kingdom, Oxford, Michael Ashcroft Baron Ashcroft, Victoria Cross, Victoria Cross Heroes, War Conflict, King's Regiment, Noel Godfrey Chavasse, Chavasse
British bomber pilot's Victoria Cross sold for record price
Lancaster :: United Kingdom | 11 days ago
Credibility A Victoria Cross awarded to a second world war bomber pilot was today sold for £348,000 at auction. The medal, presented to Flight Lieutenant Bill Reid, was bought by an anonymous bidder at Spink, in central London. The sale set a new world record price...
Tags: Spink/PA A Victoria Cross, flight lieutenant, record price, bomber pilot, Bill Reid, United Kingdom, Lancaster, Victoria Cross for Australia, Victoria Cross, Human Interest, War Conflict
48 soldiers get medals for courage, service
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 17 days ago
Credibility Warrant Officer David George Shultz received the Star of Military Valour medal for his pivotal role in defending a patrol team that was ambushed by insurgents in Afghanistan in May 2008. (CBC) Medals were given Friday to 48 members of the Canadian Forces...
Tags: Star of Military Valour, Medal of Military Valour, warrant office, Afghanistan, David George Shultz, Kabul, Victoria Cross for Australia, Victoria Cross, Year of birth missing, Human Interest, War Conflict, Politics
Armistice Day service to salute lost generation
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 20 days ago
Credibility Armistice Day service to pay tribute to lost generation Special service will mark passing of last three servicemen from first world war in UK Harry Patch, who died last July, was one of the last UK survivors of the first world war. Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty...
Tags: world war, Britain, Afghanistan, fell silent, Westminster Abbey, Kabul, great war, Auchinairn, The Royal British Legion, Harry Patch, Armistice Day, Veteran, Remembrance days, Holidays in Canada, War memorial, Human Interest, Johnson Beharry, Victoria Cross, Lance Corporal, Corporal, Military ranks of Australia, Military ranks of Singapore, Police ranks, War in Afghanistan, Coalition casualties in Helmand and Kandahar, British Forces casualties in Afghanistan since, Rupert Thorneloe, Helmand Province, Welsh Guards, War Conflict, Bereavement in Judaism, Wootton Bassett, Politics
Hundreds attend funeral for VC hero
Melbourne :: Australia | 4 months ago
Credibility Minister Kevin Rudd, federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull, Victorian Premier John Brumby and senior defence chiefs are among hundreds of people who have turned out for the funeral of Ted Kenna, who was Australia's last surviving World War II Victoria...
Tags: Ted Kenna, Victoria Cross, Edward Kenna VC, cross recipient, Australia, Mr Kenna
The "High Price" of Valour
The Canadian War Museum paid $240,000 for a WWI VICTORIA CROSS decoration at an auction in Toronto, Ontario today. They feared the rare medal for Valour would be lost to a private collector. The medal for bravery was awarded to Lt.Col Robert Shankland...
Tags: Victoria Cross, Bravery, Medal, Auction, Canada
Iraq hero goes on warpath
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 9 months ago
Credibility Johnson Beharry told The Independent it was "disgraceful" that some veterans were struggling to receive treatment The Army's most decorated serving war hero has accused the Government of failing soldiers suffering from mental trauma resulting from combat...
Tags: Iraq, Johnson Beharry, lance corporal, corporal johnson, war hero, Victoria Cross, Afghanistan
Helen Clark wins poll as greatest living NZer (NZPA)
Wellington :: New Zealand | 10 months ago
Credibility Helen Clark may have been dumped as prime minister, but for many people she is the most respected living New Zealander. The former prime minister of nine years has won a newspaper poll where people voted her the Greatest Living New Zealander. In the poll...
Tags: new zealand, Helen Clark, greatest living, prime minister, Victoria Cross, Miss Clark, zealander herald, Willie Apiata
Digger lends VC to the public
Trooper :: PA :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility Mark Donaldson says it is only fitting to allow the nation's war memorial to display his Victoria Cross to the public. The SAS soldier, who became the first Australian to win a VC in 40 years, handed over his medal to the Australian War Memorial during...
Tags: memorial, Mark Donaldson, war memorial, Victoria Cross, Afghanistan
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