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List of Australian Victoria Cross recipients

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The Victoria Cross (VC) is a military decoration awarded for valour "in the presence of the enemy"{{Cite web |url=http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/publications/honours/factsheets/victorian_cross_%20for_australia.pdf |title=VC for Australia |publisher=Australian Government |access-date=2007-07-02 |archive-date=14 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214084745/http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/publications/honours/factsheets/victorian_cross_%20for_australia.pdf |url-status=dead }} to members of the Australian Defence Force. It may be awarded to a person of any rank in any service, and to civilians under military command. Being the highest award in the Australian Honours Order of Wearing, the VC takes precedence over all other postnominals and Australian orders and decorations. The VC was instituted by Queen Victoria in 1856, initially to reward acts of valour during the Crimean War. Because of its rarity and inherent significance, the VC is highly prized, both as an award and as a collector's item, with one medal being sold for over A$1 million at auction.{{Cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Gallipoli-VC-medal-sets-auction-record/2006/07/24/1153593264537.html |title=Gallipoli VC medal sets auction record |work=The Age |date=2006-07-24 |access-date=2007-01-30 |archive-date=27 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131127160204/http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Gallipoli-VC-medal-sets-auction-record/2006/07/24/1153593264537.html |url-status=live }} 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 times: twice to Special Air Service Regiment members, once to a member of the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, and a posthumous award to a member of the 2nd Commando Regiment, and a posthumous award to Teddy Sheean. The first four were for actions in the War in Afghanistan while Sheean's was for actions during World War II.

The Imperial VC has been awarded to 96 Australians—91 were received for actions whilst serving with Australian forces, and another five to former members of the Australian forces then serving with South African and British forces. The majority of the awards were for action in the First World War when a total of 64 medals were awarded. Nine of these awards were for action during the Gallipoli Campaign. 20 medals were awarded for action in the Second World War, 6 in the Second Boer War, 4 in the Vietnam War and 2 in the Russian Civil War. Twenty-eight Australians have been awarded the medal posthumously.Wigmore 1986, p. 14. One recipient—Captain Alfred Shout VC, MC (who was also Mentioned in Despatches)—was Australia's most decorated soldier of the Gallipoli campaign. His Victoria Cross was posthumously awarded after Shout died of his wounds during the Battle of Lone Pine.{{cite web |url=http://www.anzacsite.gov.au/5environment/bravery.html |title=Bravery awards at Gallipoli |publisher=Australian Government, Department of Veterans' Affairs |access-date=2007-11-09 |archive-date=12 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012055833/http://anzacsite.gov.au/5environment/bravery.html |url-status=live }} Another 19 VCs have been awarded to soldiers who were either born in Australia, or died there, but did not serve in Australian units before being awarded the VC, and as such these are not included in this list.Wigmore 1986, pp. 180–187.

Keith Payne is the only living Australian recipient of the original VC; there are three living recipients of the Victoria Cross for Australia.

Recipients

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AWM = This denotes that the medal is held at the Australian War Memorial

=Victoria Cross=

class="wikitable sortable"

! scope="col" | Name

! scope="col" | Date of action

! scope="col" | Conflict

! scope="col" | Unit

! scope="col" | Place of action

! scope="col" | Location of medal

scope="row" |{{sortname|Charles|Anderson|Charles Groves Wright Anderson}}

|align="center"|1942||Second World War||2/19th Battalion||Muar River, Malaya||AWM{{cite web | title = Victoria Crosses held at the Memorial | publisher = Australian War Memorial | url = https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/encyclopedia/vic_cross | access-date = 4 June 2017 | archive-date = 8 April 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170408222028/https://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/vic_cross/ | url-status = live }}

scope="row" |{{sortname|Thomas|Axford}}

|align="center"|1918||First World War||16th Battalion||Hamel Wood, France||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Peter|Badcoe}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1967*||Vietnam War||Australian Army Training Team||Huong Tra, Vietnam|| AWM{{cite web |url=http://www.history.sa.gov.au/history/images/Badcoe%20Tour/Badcoe%20Banner.pdf |title=Major Badcoe's Victoria Cross |access-date=26 April 2013 |publisher=South Australian Museum |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090602115900/http://www.history.sa.gov.au/history/images/Badcoe%20Tour/Badcoe%20Banner.pdf |archive-date=2 June 2009}}
{{cite web | url=http://www.history.sa.gov.au/history/images/Badcoe%20Tour/Victoria%20Cross%20flyer.pdf | title=The Victoria Cross - Major Peter Badcoe | publisher=South Australian Museum | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090602115842/http://www.history.sa.gov.au/history/images/Badcoe%20Tour/Victoria%20Cross%20flyer.pdf | archive-date=2 June 2009}}

scope="row" |{{sortname|Robert|Beatham}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1918*||First World War||8th Battalion||Rosieres, France||Queensland Museum
South Bank{{cite web|url=http://www.southbank.qm.qld.gov.au/Events+and+Exhibitions/Exhibitions/Permanent/Courage+of+ordinary+men/Victoria+Cross|title=Victoria Cross|access-date=2012-07-26|work=Queensland Museum South Bank|publisher=Government of Queensland|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120718015310/http://www.southbank.qm.qld.gov.au/Events+and+Exhibitions/Exhibitions/Permanent/Courage+of+ordinary+men/Victoria+Cross|archive-date=18 July 2012}}Robert Beatham's medal, owned by Mr Neil Jenman and Mrs Ruth Jenman, is on loan to the Queensland Museum until 2012.

scope="row" |{{sortname|Frederick|Bell}}

|align="center"|1901||Second Boer War||West Australia Mounted Infantry||Transvaal, South Africa|| Western Australian
Museum[http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/ddauswau.htm Lieutenant Colonel Frederick William Bell] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090608025018/http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/ddauswau.htm |date=8 June 2009 }}, victoriacross.org.uk

scope="row" |{{sortname|Frederick|Birks}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1917*||First World War||6th Battalion||Ypres, Belgium||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|John|Bisdee}}

|align="center"|1900||Second Boer War||Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen||Warm Bad, South Africa|| Tasmanian Museum
and Art Gallery[http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/ddaustas.htm VC medals in the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090928083346/http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/ddaustas.htm |date=28 September 2009 }}, victoriacross.org.uk

scope="row" |{{sortname|Arthur|Blackburn}}

|align="center"|1916||First World War||10th Battalion||Pozières, France||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Albert|Borella}}

|align="center"|1918||First World War||26th Battalion||Villers-Bretonneux, France|| Privately held

scope="row" |{{sortname|Walter|Brown|dab=soldier}}

|align="center"|1918||First World War||20th Battalion||Villers-Bretonneux, France||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Alexander|Buckley}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1918*||First World War||54th Battalion||Péronne, France||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Maurice|Buckley}}

|align="center"|1918||First World War||13th Battalion||Le Verguier, France||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Patrick|Bugden}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1917*||First World War||31st Battalion||Zonnebeke, Belgium||Queensland Museum
South Bank

scope="row" |{{sortname|Alexander|Burton}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1915*||First World War||7th Battalion||Gallipoli, Turkey||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|John|Carroll|dab=soldier}}

|align="center"|1917||First World War||33rd Battalion||St. Yves, Belgium||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|George|Cartwright|dab=soldier}}

|align="center"|1918||First World War||33rd Battalion||Bouchavesnes, France|| Imperial War Museum
LondonAnthony Staunton, [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130422b.htm Cartwright, George (1894 - 1978)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080802223728/http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130422b.htm |date=2 August 2008 }}, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13, Melbourne University Press, 1993, p. 379. Retrieved on 2009-03-03.

scope="row" |{{sortname|Claud|Castleton}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1916*||First World War||Australian Machine Gun Corps||Pozières, France||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Percy|Cherry}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1917*||First World War||26th Battalion||Lagnicourt, France||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Albert|Chowne}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1945*||Second World War||2/2nd Battalion||Dagua, New Guinea||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Thomas|Cooke|dab=soldier, born 1881}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1916*||First World War||8th Battalion||Pozières, France|| Army Museum
New Zealand[http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/ddnzewel.htm VC medals in the Army Museum, New Zealand] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313084515/http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/ddnzewel.htm |date=13 March 2007 }}, victoriacross.org.uk

scope="row" |{{sortname|William|Currey}}

|align="center"|1918||First World War||53rd Battalion||Péronne, France||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Arthur Roden|Cutler}}

|align="center"|1941||Second World War||2/5th Field Regiment, RRoAA||Merdjayoun-Damour, Lebanon||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Henry|Dalziel}}

|align="center"|1918||First World War||15th Battalion||Hamel Wood, France|| AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Wilbur|Dartnell}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1915*||First World War||25th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers||Maktau, Kenya||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Phillip|Davey}}

|align="center"|1918||First World War||10th Battalion||Merris, France||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Tom|Derrick}}

|align="center"|1943||Second World War||2/48th Battalion||Sattelberg, New Guinea||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|William|Dunstan}}

|align="center"|1915||First World War||7th Battalion||Gallipoli, Turkey||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|John|Dwyer|dab=soldier}}

|align="center"|1917||First World War||Australian Machine Gun Corps||Zonnebeke, Belgium||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|John|Edmondson|dab=soldier}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1941*||Second World War||2/17th Battalion||Tobruk, Libya||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Hughie|Edwards}}

|align="center"|1941||Second World War||No. 105 Squadron RAF||Bremen, Germany||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Jack|French}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1942*||Second World War||2/9th Battalion||Milne Bay, Papua|| Privately held

scope="row" |{{sortname|Alfred|Gaby}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1918*||First World War||28th Battalion||Villers-Bretonneux, France|| Tasmanian Museum
and Art Gallery

scope="row" |{{sortname|Bernard|Gordon|dab=soldier}}

|align="center"|1918||First World War||41st Battalion||Bray, France||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Jim|Gordon|dab=Australian soldier}}

|align="center"|1941||Second World War||2/31st Battalion||Djezzine, Syria|| Privately held

scope="row" |{{sortname|Percy|Gratwick}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1942*||Second World War||2/48th Battalion||El Alamein, Egypt|| Army Museum of
Western Australia[http://www.armymuseumwa.com.au/sig_items.html Items of significance] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321105945/http://armymuseumwa.com.au/sig_items.html |date=21 March 2012 }}, Army Museum of Western Australia, 4 January 2009. Retrieved on 2009-03-03.

scope="row" |{{sortname|Robert|Grieve|dab=VC}}

|align="center"|1917||First World War||37th Battalion||Messines, Belgium|| Shrine of Remembrance
Melbourne{{cite news | last = Wilson | first = Neil | date = 2003-08-09 | title = Rise & shrine | work = Herald Sun | page = 6 }}Robert Grieve's medal is on loan to the Shrine by its owners, Wesley College

scope="row" |{{sortname|Stan|Gurney}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1942*||Second World War||2/48th Battalion||Tel-el-Eisa, Egypt||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Arthur|Hall|dab=soldier}}

|align="center"|1918||First World War||54th Battalion||Péronne, France||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|John|Hamilton|John Patrick Hamilton}}

|align="center"|1915||First World War||3rd Battalion||Gallipoli, Turkey||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|George|Howell|dab=soldier}}

|align="center"|1917||First World War||1st Battalion||Bullecourt, France||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Neville|Howse}}

|align="center"|1900||Second Boer War||New South Wales Medical Staff Corps||Vredefort, South Africa||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|George|Ingram}}

|align="center"|1918||First World War||24th Battalion||Montbrehain, France||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Roy|Inwood}}

|align="center"|1917||First World War||10th Battalion||Polygon Wood, Belgium||Adelaide Town Hall{{cite web|url=http://www.adelaidecitycouncil.com/scripts/nc.dll?ADCC:STANDARD::pc=PC_196|title=Reginald Roy Inwood's - Victoria Cross Medal|access-date=2008-10-07|publisher=Adelaide City Council|archive-date=24 July 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724204916/http://www.adelaidecitycouncil.com/scripts/nc.dll?ADCC:STANDARD::pc=PC_196|url-status=live}}

scope="row" |{{sortname|Albert|Jacka}}

|align="center"|1915||First World War||14th Battalion||Gallipoli, Turkey||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|William|Jackson|dab=Australian soldier}}

|align="center"|1916||First World War||17th Battalion||Armentieres, France|| Privately held

scope="row" |{{sortname|Clarence| Jeffries}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1917*||First World War||34th Battalion||Passchendaele, Belgium||Christ Church Cathedral,
Newcastle, N.S.W.[http://www.warmemorialsnsw.asn.au/Details.cfm?MemNo=166 Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries Memorial Park (Abermain)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719175327/http://www.warmemorialsnsw.asn.au/Details.cfm?MemNo=166 |date=19 July 2008 }}, Register of War Memorials in New South Wales, 2002. Retrieved on 2009-03-03.

scope="row" |{{sortname|Jørgen|Jensen|dab=soldier}}

|align="center"|1917||First World War||50th Battalion||Noreuil, France||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|William|Joynt}}

|align="center"|1918||First World War||8th Battalion||Herleville Wood, France|| Privately heldWilliam Joynt's VC medal is thought to be held at Melbourne Grammar School.{{citation needed|date=May 2013}}

scope="row" |{{sortname|Richard|Kelliher}}

|align="center"|1943||Second World War||2/25th Battalion||Nadzab, New Guinea||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Edward|Kenna}}

|align="center"|1945||Second World War||2/4th Battalion||Wewak, New Guinea|| unknownKenna's VC had been on loan to the AWM since 9 April 2010 - see [http://www.awm.gov.au/media/releases/download.asp?Media_Release_ID=335 AWM Media Release 335] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110314210920/http://www.awm.gov.au/media/releases/download.asp?Media_Release_ID=335 |date=14 March 2011 }} - but no longer appears on the War Memorial's list of [https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/encyclopedia/vic_cross Victoria Crosses held at the Memorial] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170408222028/https://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/vic_cross/ |date=8 April 2017 }}.

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Bede|Kenny}}

|align="center"|1917

First World War2nd BattalionHermies, FranceAWM
scope="row" |{{sortname|Leonard|Keysor}}

|align="center"|1915||First World War||1st Battalion||Gallipoli, Turkey||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Bill|Kibby}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1942*||Second World War||2/48th Battalion||El Alamein, Egypt||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Bruce|Kingsbury}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1942*||Second World War||2/14th Battalion||Isurava, Papua||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|John|Leak}}

|align="center"|1916||First World War||9th Battalion||Pozières, France|| Privately held

scope="row" |{{sortname|Alby|Lowerson}}

|align="center"|1918||First World War||21st Battalion||Mont St. Quentin, France||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Jack|Mackey}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1945*||Second World War||2/3rd Pioneer Battalion||Tarakan Island, Borneo||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Robert|MacTier}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1918*||First World War||23rd Battalion||Mont St. Quentin, France||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Joseph|Maxwell}}

|align="center"|1918||First World War||18th Battalion||Estrees, France||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Leslie|Maygar}}

|align="center"|1901||Second Boer War||5th Victorian Mounted Rifles||Geelhoutboom, South Africa||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Dominic|McCarthy}}

|align="center"|1918||First World War||16th Battalion||Madam Wood, France||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Stanley|McDougall}}

|align="center"|1918||First World War||47th Battalion||Dernancourt, France||AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Lewis|McGee|dab=soldier}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1917*||First World War||40th Battalion||Ypres, Belgium||Queen Victoria Museum
and Art Gallery,
Launceston[http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/ddaustas.htm Co Sergeant Major Lewis McGee] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090928083346/http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/ddaustas.htm |date=28 September 2009 }}, victoriacross.org.uk

scope="row" |{{sortname|Frank|McNamara|dab=RAAF officer}}

|align="center"|1917||First World War||No. 1 Squadron AFC||Tel el Hesi, Palestine|| RAF Museum, London[http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/ccraf.htm VC medals in the RAF Museum, London] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090514083737/http://www.victoriacross.org.uk/ccraf.htm |date=14 May 2009 }}, victoriacross.org.uk

scope="row" |{{sortname|Ron|Middleton|Ron Middleton (VC)
}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1942*||Second World War||RAAF attached No. 149 Squadron RAF||Turin, Italy||AWM

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Mick|Moon}}

|align="center"|1917||First World War||58th Battalion||Bullecourt, France||AWM

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Harry|Murray}}

|align="center"|1917||First World War||13th Battalion||Gueudecourt, France||AWM

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|James|Newland}}

|align="center"|1917||First World War||12th Battalion||Bapaume, France||AWM

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Bill|Newton}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1943*||Second World War||No. 22 Squadron RAAF||New Guinea||AWM

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Martin|O'Meara}}

|align="center"|1916||First World War||16th Battalion||Pozières, France||Army Museum of
Western Australia

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Frank|Partridge|dab=soldier}}

|align="center"|1945||Second World War||8th (Militia) Battalion||Bougainville, New Guinea|| Privately held

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Keith|Payne}}

|align="center"|1969||Vietnam War||Australian Army Training Team||Ben Het, Vietnam||AWM

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Samuel|Pearse}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1919*||North Russia Relief Force||45th Battalion, RF||Emtsa, Russia||AWM

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Walter|Peeler}}

|align="center"|1917||First World War||3rd Pioneer Battalion||Ypres, Belgium||AWM

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Charles|Pope}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1917*||First World War||11th Battalion||Louveral, France||AWM

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Reg|Rattey}}

|align="center"|1945||Second World War||25th Battalion||Bougainville, New Guinea|| Privately held

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|James|Rogers|dab=Australian soldier}}

|align="center"|1901||Second Boer War||South African Constabulary||Thaba 'Nchu, South Africa||AWM

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|William|Ruthven|dab=Australian soldier}}

|align="center"|1918||First World War||22nd Battalion||Ville-sur-Ancre, France||AWM

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|John|Ryan|dab=Australian soldier}}

|align="center"|1918||First World War||55th Battalion||Hindenburg Defences, France||AWM

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Clifford|Sadlier}}

|align="center"|1918||First World War||51st Battalion||Villers-Bretonneux, France||St George's Cathedral
Perth W.A.[http://www.perthcathedral.org/images/cathedral%20history%20and%20guide.pdf "A History and Detailed Guide to St George's Cathedral"]{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Revised 2007, pp.10&14. Retrieved on 2009-03-03.

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Alfred|Shout}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1915*||First World War||1st Battalion||Gallipoli, Turkey||AWM

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Ray|Simpson|dab=soldier}}

|align="center"|1969||Vietnam War||Australian Army Training Team||Kontum Province, Vietnam||AWM

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Leslie|Starcevich}}

|align="center"|1945||Second World War||2/43rd Battalion||Beaufort, British North Borneo||Army Museum of
Western Australia

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Percy|Statton}}

|align="center"|1918||First World War||40th Battalion||Proyart, France||AWM

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Percy|Storkey}}

|align="center"|1918||First World War||19th Battalion||Hangard Wood, France|| Army Museum
New Zealand

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Arthur|Sullivan|dab=Australian soldier}}

|align="center"|1919||North Russia Relief Force||45th Battalion, RF ||Sheika River, Russia||AWM

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|William|Symons}}

|align="center"|1915||First World War||7th Battalion||Gallipoli, Turkey||AWM

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Hugo|Throssell}}

|align="center"|1915||First World War||10th Light Horse||Gallipoli, Turkey||AWM

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Edgar|Towner}}

|align="center"|1918||First World War||Australian Machine Gun Corps||Mont St. Quentin, France|| Privately held

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Frederick|Tubb}}

|align="center"|1915||First World War||7th Battalion||Gallipoli, Turkey||AWM

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Blair|Wark}}

|align="center"|1918||First World War||32nd Battalion||Bellicourt, France||Queensland Museum
South BankBlair Wark's medal, owned by the United Service Club Queensland, is on loan to the Queensland Museum until 2012.

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Lawrence|Weathers}}

|align="center"|1918||First World War||43rd Battalion||Peronne, France|| Privately held

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Kevin|Wheatley}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1965*||Vietnam War||Australian Army Training Team||Tra Bong, Vietnam||AWM

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|John|Whittle}}

|align="center"|1917||First World War||12th Battalion||Boursies, France|| AWMWhittle's VC has been on loan to the AWM since October 2009 - see [http://www.awm.gov.au/media/releases/download.asp?Media_Release_ID=296 AWM Media Release 296] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110314213617/http://www.awm.gov.au/media/releases/download.asp?Media_Release_ID=296 |date=14 March 2011 }}.

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|James|Woods|James Park Woods}}

|align="center"|1918||First World War||48th Battalion||Le Verguier, France||AWM

|-

! scope="row" |{{sortname|Guy|Wylly}}

|align="center"|1900||Second Boer War||Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen||Warm Bad, South Africa|| Tasmanian Museum
and Art Gallery

|}

=Victoria Cross for Australia=

class="wikitable sortable"

! scope="col" | Name

! scope="col" | Date of action

! scope="col" | Conflict

! scope="col" | Unit

! scope="col" | Place of action

! scope="col" | Location of medal

scope="row" |{{sortname|Cameron|Baird}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|2013*||War in Afghanistan||2nd Commando Regiment||Khod Valley, Afghanistan|| AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Mark|Donaldson}}

|align="center"|2008||War in Afghanistan||Special Air Service Regiment||Urozgan Province, Afghanistan||AWMDonaldson's VC has been on loan to the AWM since January 2009 - see [http://www.awm.gov.au/media/releases/download.asp?Media_Release_ID=215 AWM Media Release 215] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110314221236/http://www.awm.gov.au/media/releases/download.asp?Media_Release_ID=215 |date=14 March 2011 }}.

scope="row" |{{sortname|Daniel|Keighran}}

|align="center"|2010||War in Afghanistan||6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment||Urozgan Province, Afghanistan|| AWM

scope="row" |{{sortname|Ben|Roberts-Smith}}

|align="center"|2010||War in Afghanistan||Special Air Service Regiment||Kandahar Province, Afghanistan||AWM{{cite web |title=Australia's latest Victoria Cross recipient Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith VC MG views his newly installed panel and medal display for the first time |url=http://www.awm.gov.au/sites/default/files/Ben%20Robert%20Smith.pdf |work=Media alert |publisher=Australian War Memorial |access-date=8 August 2011 |date=3 April 2011 |archive-date=14 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014231104/http://www.awm.gov.au/sites/default/files/Ben%20Robert%20Smith.pdf |url-status=live }}

scope="row" |{{sortname|Teddy|Sheean}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1942*||Second World War||HMAS Armidale||Arafura Sea, East Timor|| AWM.

scope="row" |{{sortname|Richard|Norden|Richard Norden (soldier)}}

|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1968*||Vietnam War||1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment||Bình Dương province, South Vietnam||

Note: Richard Norden was awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia in 2024 posthumously after his death in 1972 from unrelated causes.{{cite news |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-11/private-richard-norden-awarded-victoria-cross/104584768 |title=Private Richard Norden awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery during the Vietnam War |first=Andrew |last=Greene |date=11 November 2024 |website=ABC News |access-date=11 November 2024}}

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  • {{cite web |url=http://www.awm.gov.au/virtualtour/valour.htm |title=Victoria Crosses at the Australian War Memorial |publisher=Australian War Memorial |access-date=2008-02-23 |archive-date=3 November 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071103200205/http://www.awm.gov.au/virtualtour/valour.htm |url-status=live }}
  • {{cite web |url=http://www.anzacday.org.au/education/medals/vc/austlist.html |title=List of Australian recipients of the Victoria Cross |publisher=Anzac Day Commemoration Committee |access-date=2008-02-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100228071026/http://www.anzacday.org.au/education/medals/vc/austlist.html |archive-date=28 February 2010 }}
  • {{cite book | last = Wigmore | first = Lionel | year = 1986 | title = They Dared Mightily. Second Edition | publisher = Australian War Memorial | location = Canberra }}

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