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[[Image:35AWM.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The [[Australian War Memorial]], which currently holds 66&nbsp;VCs.]]

The [[Victoria Cross]] (VC) is a [[military decoration]] awarded for valour "in the presence of the enemy"<ref name=OzVcpdf>{{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 }}</ref> to members of the [[Australian Defence Force]]. It may be awarded to a person of any [[:Category:Military ranks of Australia|rank]] in any service, and to [[Civilian|civilians]] under military command. Being the highest award in the [[Australian Honours Order of Wearing]], the VC takes precedence over all other [[Post-nominal letters|postnominals]] and [[Commonwealth Realms orders and decorations#Australia|Australian orders and decorations]]. The VC was instituted by [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|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 [[Australian dollar|A$]]1 million at auction.<ref>{{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 }}</ref> 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 (Australia)|2nd Commando Regiment]], and a posthumous award to [[Teddy Sheean]]. The first four were for actions in the [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|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]].<ref name=OzVcpdf/> Twenty-eight Australians have been awarded the medal posthumously.<ref>Wigmore 1986, p. 14.</ref> One recipient—[[Captain (land)|Captain]] [[Alfred Shout]] VC, [[Military Cross|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]].<ref>{{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 }}</ref> 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.<ref>Wigmore 1986, pp. 180–187.</ref>

[[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 = <small>This denotes that the medal is held at the [[Australian War Memorial]]</small>

===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 (Australia)|2/19th Battalion]]||Muar River, Malaya||AWM<ref name=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 }}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Thomas|Axford}}
|align="center"|1918||First World War||16th Battalion||Hamel Wood, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Peter|Badcoe}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1967*||Vietnam War||[[Australian Army Training Team]]||Huong Tra, Vietnam|| AWM<ref>{{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}}<br>{{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}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Robert|Beatham}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1918*||First World War||[[Australian 8th Battalion|8th Battalion]]||Rosieres, France||[[Queensland Museum|Queensland Museum<br />South Bank]]<ref name="QM">{{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}}</ref><ref>Robert Beatham's medal, owned by Mr Neil Jenman and Mrs Ruth Jenman, is on loan to the [[Queensland Museum]] until 2012.</ref>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Frederick|Bell}}
|align="center"|1901||Second Boer War||West Australia Mounted Infantry||Transvaal, South Africa|| [[Western Australian Museum|Western Australian<br>Museum]]<ref>[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</ref>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Frederick|Birks}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1917*||First World War||[[Australian 6th Battalion|6th Battalion]]||Ypres, Belgium||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|John|Bisdee}}
|align="center"|1900||Second Boer War||Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen||Warm Bad, South Africa|| [[Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery|Tasmanian Museum<br>and Art Gallery]]<ref name=tmag>[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</ref>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Arthur|Blackburn}}
|align="center"|1916||First World War||[[Australian 10th Battalion|10th Battalion]]||Pozières, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Albert|Borella}}
|align="center"|1918||First World War||[[26th Battalion (Australia)|26th Battalion]]||Villers-Bretonneux, France|| Privately held 
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Walter|Brown|dab=soldier}}
|align="center"|1918||First World War||[[Australian 20th Battalion|20th Battalion]]||Villers-Bretonneux, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Alexander|Buckley}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1918*||First World War||[[54th Battalion (Australia)|54th Battalion]]||Péronne, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Maurice|Buckley}}
|align="center"|1918||First World War||[[13th Battalion (Australia)|13th Battalion]]||Le Verguier, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Patrick|Bugden}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1917*||First World War||[[31st Battalion (Australia)|31st Battalion]]||Zonnebeke, Belgium||Queensland Museum<br />South Bank<ref name="QM"/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Alexander|Burton}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1915*||First World War||[[Australian 7th Battalion|7th Battalion]]||Gallipoli, Turkey||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|John|Carroll|dab=soldier}}
|align="center"|1917||First World War||[[33rd Battalion (Australia)|33rd Battalion]]||St. Yves, Belgium||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|George|Cartwright|dab=soldier}}
|align="center"|1918||First World War||33rd Battalion||Bouchavesnes, France|| [[Imperial War Museum]]<br />London<ref>Anthony Staunton, [https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cartwright-george-9703 ''Cartwright, George (1894 - 1978)''] , Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13, Melbourne University Press, 1993, p. 379. Retrieved on 2009-03-03.</ref>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Claud|Castleton}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1916*||First World War||[[Australian Machine Gun Corps]]||Pozières, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Percy|Cherry}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1917*||First World War||26th Battalion||Lagnicourt, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Albert|Chowne}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1945*||Second World War||[[2/2nd Australian Infantry Battalion|2/2nd Battalion]]||Dagua, New Guinea||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Thomas|Cooke|dab=soldier, born 1881}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1916*||First World War||[[Australian 8th Battalion|8th Battalion]]||Pozières, France|| [[Army Museum New Zealand|Army Museum<br>New Zealand]]<ref name=amnz>[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</ref>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|William|Currey}}
|align="center"|1918||First World War||[[53rd Battalion (Australia)|53rd Battalion]]||Péronne, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Arthur Roden|Cutler}}
|align="center"|1941||Second World War||[[2/5th Field Regiment (Australia)|2/5th Field Regiment]], [[Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery|RRoAA]]||Merdjayoun-Damour, Lebanon||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Henry|Dalziel}}
|align="center"|1918||First World War||[[15th Battalion (Australia)|15th Battalion]]||Hamel Wood, France|| AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Wilbur|Dartnell}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1915*||First World War||25th (Service) Battalion, [[Royal Fusiliers]]||Maktau, Kenya||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Phillip|Davey}}
|align="center"|1918||First World War||[[Australian 10th Battalion|10th Battalion]]||Merris, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Tom|Derrick}}
|align="center"|1943||Second World War||[[2/48th Battalion (Australia)|2/48th Battalion]]||Sattelberg, New Guinea||AWM<ref name=awm/>
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|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|William|Dunstan}}
|align="center"|1915||First World War||[[Australian 7th Battalion|7th Battalion]]||Gallipoli, Turkey||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|John|Dwyer|dab=soldier}}
|align="center"|1917||First World War||Australian Machine Gun Corps||Zonnebeke, Belgium||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|John|Edmondson|dab=soldier}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1941*||Second World War||[[2/17th Battalion (Australia)|2/17th Battalion]]||Tobruk, Libya||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Hughie|Edwards}}
|align="center"|1941||Second World War||[[No. 105 Squadron RAF]]||Bremen, Germany||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Jack|French}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1942*||Second World War||[[2/9th Battalion (Australia)|2/9th Battalion]]||Milne Bay, Papua|| Privately held
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Alfred|Gaby}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1918*||First World War||[[28th Battalion (Australia)|28th Battalion]]||Villers-Bretonneux, France|| Tasmanian Museum<br />and Art Gallery<ref name=tmag/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Bernard|Gordon|dab=soldier}}
|align="center"|1918||First World War||41st Battalion||Bray, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Jim|Gordon|dab=Australian soldier}}
|align="center"|1941||Second World War||[[2/31st Battalion (Australia)|2/31st Battalion]]||Djezzine, Syria|| Privately held
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Percy|Gratwick}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1942*||Second World War||[[2/48th Australian Infantry Battalion|2/48th Battalion]]||El Alamein, Egypt|| [[Army Museum of Western Australia|Army Museum of<br>Western Australia]]<ref name=amwa>[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.</ref> 
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Robert|Grieve|dab=VC}}
|align="center"|1917||First World War||[[37th Battalion (Australia)|37th Battalion]]||Messines, Belgium|| [[Shrine of Remembrance#Visitor Centre|Shrine of Remembrance]]<br />Melbourne<ref>{{cite news | last = Wilson | first = Neil | date = 2003-08-09 | title = Rise & shrine | work = [[Herald Sun]] | page = 6 }}</ref><ref>Robert Grieve's medal is on loan to the Shrine by its owners, [[Wesley College, Melbourne|Wesley College]]</ref>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Stan|Gurney}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1942*||Second World War||[[2/48th Battalion (Australia)|2/48th Battalion]]||Tel-el-Eisa, Egypt||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Arthur|Hall|dab=soldier}}
|align="center"|1918||First World War||54th Battalion||Péronne, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|John|Hamilton|John Patrick Hamilton}}
|align="center"|1915||First World War||[[Australian 3rd Battalion|3rd Battalion]]||Gallipoli, Turkey||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|George|Howell|dab=soldier}}
|align="center"|1917||First World War||[[1st Battalion (Australia)|1st Battalion]]||Bullecourt, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Neville|Howse}}
|align="center"|1900||Second Boer War||New South Wales Medical Staff Corps||Vredefort, South Africa||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|George|Ingram}}
|align="center"|1918||First World War||[[24th Battalion (Australia)|24th Battalion]]||Montbrehain, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Roy|Inwood}}
|align="center"|1917||First World War||[[Australian 10th Battalion|10th Battalion]]||Polygon Wood, Belgium||[[Adelaide Town Hall]]<ref>{{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}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Albert|Jacka}}
|align="center"|1915||First World War||[[14th Battalion (Australia)|14th Battalion]]||Gallipoli, Turkey||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|William|Jackson|dab=Australian soldier}}
|align="center"|1916||First World War||[[17th Battalion (Australia)|17th Battalion]]||Armentieres, France|| Privately held
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Clarence| Jeffries}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1917*||First World War||[[34th Battalion (Australia)|34th Battalion]]||Passchendaele, Belgium||[[Christ Church Cathedral (Newcastle, New South Wales)|Christ Church Cathedral,<br>Newcastle, N.S.W.]]<ref>[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.</ref>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Jørgen|Jensen|dab=soldier}}
|align="center"|1917||First World War||[[50th Battalion (Australia)|50th Battalion]]||Noreuil, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|William|Joynt}}
|align="center"|1918||First World War||8th Battalion||Herleville Wood, France|| [[Melbourne Grammar School]]<ref>[https://www.mgs.vic.edu.au/community/news-and-events/latest-news/honouring-our-fallen William Joynt's VC] medal was donated to [[Melbourne Grammar School]] where it is currently held. </ref>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Richard|Kelliher}}
|align="center"|1943||Second World War||[[2/25th Battalion (Australia)|2/25th Battalion]]||Nadzab, New Guinea||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Edward|Kenna}}
|align="center"|1945||Second World War||[[2/4th Australian Infantry Battalion|2/4th Battalion]]||Wewak, New Guinea|| unknown<ref>Kenna'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 }}.</ref>
|-<ref name=awm/>
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Bede|Kenny}}
|align="center"|1917||First World War||[[2nd Battalion (Australia)|2nd Battalion]]||Hermies, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Leonard|Keysor}}
|align="center"|1915||First World War||1st Battalion||Gallipoli, Turkey||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Bill|Kibby}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1942*||Second World War||[[2/48th Battalion (Australia)|2/48th Battalion]]||El Alamein, Egypt||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Bruce|Kingsbury}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1942*||Second World War||[[2/14th Battalion (Australia)|2/14th Battalion]]||Isurava, Papua||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|John|Leak}}
|align="center"|1916||First World War||[[9th Battalion (Australia)|9th Battalion]]||Pozières, France|| Privately held
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Alby|Lowerson}}
|align="center"|1918||First World War||[[21st Battalion (Australia)|21st Battalion]]||Mont St. Quentin, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Jack|Mackey}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1945*||Second World War||[[2/3rd Pioneer Battalion (Australia)|2/3rd Pioneer Battalion]]||Tarakan Island, Borneo||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Robert|MacTier}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1918*||First World War||[[23rd Battalion (Australia)|23rd Battalion]]||Mont St. Quentin, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Joseph|Maxwell}}
|align="center"|1918||First World War||[[18th Battalion (Australia)|18th Battalion]]||Estrees, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Leslie|Maygar}}
|align="center"|1901||Second Boer War||[[5th Victorian Mounted Rifles]]||Geelhoutboom, South Africa||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Dominic|McCarthy}}
|align="center"|1918||First World War||[[16th Battalion (Australia)|16th Battalion]]||Madam Wood, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Stanley|McDougall}}
|align="center"|1918||First World War||[[47th Battalion (Australia)|47th Battalion]]||Dernancourt, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Lewis|McGee|dab=soldier}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1917*||First World War||[[40th Battalion (Australia)|40th Battalion]]||Ypres, Belgium||[[Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery|Queen Victoria Museum<br>and Art Gallery]],<br />Launceston<ref>[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</ref>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Frank|McNamara|dab=RAAF officer}}
|align="center"|1917||First World War||[[No. 1 Squadron RAAF|No. 1 Squadron AFC]]||Tel el Hesi, Palestine|| [[Royal Air Force Museum|RAF Museum]], London<ref>[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</ref>
|-
! 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<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Mick|Moon}}
|align="center"|1917||First World War||[[58th Battalion (Australia)|58th Battalion]]||Bullecourt, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Harry|Murray}}
|align="center"|1917||First World War||[[13th Battalion (Australia)|13th Battalion]]||Gueudecourt, France||AWM
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|James|Newland}}
|align="center"|1917||First World War||[[12th Battalion (Australia)|12th Battalion]]||Bapaume, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Bill|Newton}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1943*||Second World War||[[No. 22 Squadron RAAF]]||New Guinea||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Martin|O'Meara}}
|align="center"|1916||First World War||16th Battalion||Pozières, France||Army Museum of<br />Western Australia<ref name=amwa/>
|-
! 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 Camp|Ben Het]], Vietnam||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Samuel|Pearse}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1919*||North Russia Relief Force||45th Battalion, [[Royal Fusiliers|RF]]||Emtsa, Russia||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Walter|Peeler}}
|align="center"|1917||First World War||[[3rd Pioneer Battalion (Australia)|3rd Pioneer Battalion]]||Ypres, Belgium||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Charles|Pope}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1917*||First World War||[[Australian 11th Battalion|11th Battalion]]||Louveral, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Reg|Rattey}}
|align="center"|1945||Second World War||[[25th Battalion (Australia)|25th Battalion]]||Bougainville, New Guinea|| Privately held
|-
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! scope="row" |{{sortname|James|Rogers|dab=Australian soldier}}
|align="center"|1901||Second Boer War||[[South African Constabulary]]||Thaba 'Nchu, South Africa||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|William|Ruthven|dab=Australian soldier}}
|align="center"|1918||First World War||[[22nd Battalion (Australia)|22nd Battalion]]||Ville-sur-Ancre, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|John|Ryan|dab=Australian soldier}}
|align="center"|1918||First World War||[[55th Battalion (Australia)|55th Battalion]]||Hindenburg Defences, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Clifford|Sadlier}}
|align="center"|1918||First World War||[[51st Battalion (Australia)|51st Battalion]]||Villers-Bretonneux, France||[[St George's Cathedral, Perth|St George's Cathedral<br>Perth W.A.]]<ref>[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.</ref>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Alfred|Shout}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1915*||First World War||1st Battalion||Gallipoli, Turkey||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Ray|Simpson|dab=soldier}}
|align="center"|1969||Vietnam War||Australian Army Training Team||Kontum Province, Vietnam||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Leslie|Starcevich}}
|align="center"|1945||Second World War||[[2/43rd Battalion (Australia)|2/43rd Battalion]]||Beaufort, British North Borneo||Army Museum of<br />Western Australia<ref name=amwa/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Percy|Statton}}
|align="center"|1918||First World War||40th Battalion||Proyart, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Percy|Storkey}}
|align="center"|1918||First World War||[[19th Battalion (Australia)|19th Battalion]]||Hangard Wood, France|| Army Museum<br />New Zealand<ref name=amnz/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Arthur|Sullivan|dab=Australian soldier}}
|align="center"|1919||North Russia Relief Force||45th Battalion, [[Royal Fusiliers|RF]] ||Sheika River, Russia||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|William|Symons}}
|align="center"|1915||First World War||7th Battalion||Gallipoli, Turkey||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Hugo|Throssell}}
|align="center"|1915||First World War||[[10th Light Horse]]||Gallipoli, Turkey||AWM<ref name=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<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Blair|Wark}}
|align="center"|1918||First World War||[[32nd Battalion (Australia)|32nd Battalion]]||Bellicourt, France||Queensland Museum<br />South Bank<ref name="QM"/><ref>Blair Wark's medal, owned by the United Service Club Queensland, is on loan to the Queensland Museum until 2012.</ref>
|-
! 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<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|John|Whittle}}
|align="center"|1917||First World War||12th Battalion||Boursies, France|| AWM<ref name=awm/><ref>Whittle'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 }}.</ref>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|James|Woods|James Park Woods}}
|align="center"|1918||First World War||[[48th Battalion (Australia)|48th Battalion]]||Le Verguier, France||AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Guy|Wylly}}
|align="center"|1900||Second Boer War||Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen||Warm Bad, South Africa|| Tasmanian Museum<br />and Art Gallery<ref name=tmag/>
|}

===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 (2001–present)|War in Afghanistan]]||[[2nd Commando Regiment (Australia)|2nd Commando Regiment]]||Khod Valley, Afghanistan|| AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Mark|Donaldson}}
|align="center"|2008||War in Afghanistan||[[Australian Special Air Service Regiment|Special Air Service Regiment]]||[[Urozgan Province]], [[Afghanistan]]||AWM<ref name=awm/><ref>Donaldson'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 }}.</ref>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Daniel|Keighran}}
|align="center"|2010||War in Afghanistan||[[6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment]]||Urozgan Province, Afghanistan|| AWM<ref name=awm/>
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Ben|Roberts-Smith}}
|align="center"|2010||War in Afghanistan||Special Air Service Regiment||[[Kandahar Province]], Afghanistan||AWM<ref name=awm/><ref>{{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 }}</ref> 
|-
! scope="row" |{{sortname|Teddy|Sheean}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;" align="center"|1942*||[[Second World War]]||[[HMAS Armidale (J240)|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

==References==
===Specific===
{{Reflist}}

===General===
{{refbegin}}
* {{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 }}
{{refend}}

{{Victoria Cross recipients}}

{{Featured list}}

[[Category:Lists of recipients of the Victoria Cross by nationality|Australia]]
[[Category:Australian recipients of the Victoria Cross| ]]
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[[Category:Lists of Australian military personnel|Victoria Cross recipients]]