Remake of 9P Victoria Cross winners by Jennifer Caligari

George Raymond Dallas Moor

2023-11-10 03:43:12 UTC

Died when he was 22 in France, 1918. Awarded Victoria Cross on 6 June 1915. He was born in St Kilda, Melbourne.

Maurice Buckley

2023-11-10 03:43:22 UTC

Maurice Vincent Buckley was born 13th April 1891 in Hawthorn, Melbourne. His parents were Timothy and Honora Mary Buckley. He died 27th January 1921 in Fitzroy, Melbourne.

He was awarded the Victoria Cross on the 29th of May in 1919, by King George V.

He charged at the Germans and killed them and risked his life to take over the oppositions weapons. He killed the crew of some of the Germans because they were going to use new weapons.

William Dunstan

2023-11-10 03:48:38 UTC

Born on the 6th of march 1895 in Ballarat. He was awarded the Victoria cross on the 10th of June 1916. after discharge he was an accountant with the Herald and the Weekly times under the name Keith Murdoch. He died on the 2nd of march 1957 at age 62.

clifford sadlier

2023-11-10 03:48:43 UTC

Clifford William King Sadlier was a soldier, he was born on 11 June 1892 at Camberwell, he enlisted as a private in the Australian Imperial Force in May 1915, but on 9 November he re-embarked for active service as an acting sergeant with the 7th Reinforcements for the 51st Battalion. In England he reverted to the rank of private on 11 January 1917.Sadlier won the Victoria Cross for what the official historian, charles bean called 'an extraordinarily bold attack' on German machine-gunners during the 2nd battle of Villers-Bretonneux on 24-25 April 1918.

Frank McNamara

2023-11-10 03:49:22 UTC

Frank McNamara was a soldier from Rushworth Victoria. His family moved to Melbourne and he went to university and joined the senior cadets. He was a pilot and flew lots of planes. He wounded himself by damaging his aircraft. He managed to quickly fix the plane before the Turks arrived and weak with blood loss he managed to fly his team back to safety. And thats why he won the medal.

Thomas Cooke

2023-11-10 03:49:40 UTC

Born in 1881, New Zealand Thomas followed the footsteps of his father and became a carpenter in his early 20's. Cooke Migrated to Australia with his wife and their 3 children settling in Richmond, Melbourne. 1915 he enlisted in the AIF and undertook training camp, Sailed to Port Melbourne where he was allocated among the HMAT Commonwealth ship where he traveled to Egypt then sailed to France to help in the Battle of the Somme. In 1916 he with his Lewis gun team to fire into German, all the men where killed and he had to fight without support. He died in 1916 in France after no backup was able to reach he in time and was found dead slumped over his Lewis gun. He has no know grave.

Albert Jacka

2023-11-10 03:51:15 UTC

born 10th Jan 1893 in layard and died the 17th January 1932 in Caulfield Melbourne. trained for 2 months in eygpt. Earnt his victoria cross in gallipolli by attacking single handed and killed a whole party 5 by rifle and 2 with a bayonet. he receved his victoria cross at windsor castle.

William Donovan Joynt

2023-11-10 03:51:39 UTC

This is William Donovan Joynt. He was born in Ireland and later on moved to Melbourne Australia. He attended Melbourne Church of England and later spent his years travelling around Australia as a Pastoralist. When war broke out, he was farming on Flinders island in Bass Strait. He then returned to the mainland and enlisted on the 5th of May 1915. William received the Victorian cross medal because during the massive allied offensive launched on the 8th of August near Amiens, that Joynt performed the deeds for in which he received that medal.

ROBERT MACTIER

2023-11-10 03:52:53 UTC

Robert was born in Tatura, west of Shepperton, in 1890. He enlisted on 1 March 1917 and was soon sent to the Recruits Battalion at Broadmeadows camp. After all his training he joined the 23rd Battalion. The 23rd was heavily involved in the fighting to stop the German Spring Offensive, which was launched in March 1918. In April he was gassed during the fighting around Albert but returned to his unit soon after. On the 1st of September, the Battle of Mont St Quentin began and Mactier performed the deeds from which he received the Victoria Cross. He was setting off on the fourth time to the Germans and was killed by fire from another German machine gun. He was buried in Hem Farm Military Cemetery, north west of Peronne.

William John Symons

2023-11-10 03:54:01 UTC

He was born 1889 north of Bendigo he originally worked as a commercial traveler. He died of a brain tumor in 1948. He lead the charge on Jacob's Trench and repelled the Turks. After this attack he was rushed to hospital with gastroenteritis. He was then awarded his Victoria cross in London from King George the 5th on the 4th of December 1915.

Walter Peeler

2023-11-10 03:58:08 UTC

Walter was a soldier from Castlemaine, he was born in 1887. He was working as a labourer in the Gippsland town of Leongatha when he made the choice to enlist, on 17 February 1916. On many occasions during his service in the war, Peeler killed and disabled at least 30 of the enemy during the process of charging enemy machine guns. His victoria cross medal states 'Peeler displayed an absolute fearlessness in making his way ahead of the first wave of the assault, and the fine example which he set insured the success of the attack against most determined opposition'.

Percy Cherry

2023-11-10 04:01:39 UTC

He was born in Drysdale in 1895
He died the 26 march 1917

Alexander stewart burton

2023-11-10 04:03:11 UTC

Born 20th of January 1893 in Kyneton Victoria. Died 9th august 1915 in Gallipoli. He died at 21 years old.

He was named in the Avenue of Honor in Euroa. Departed from Port Melbourne 1914 and trained in Egypt.

William Ruthven

2023-11-10 04:05:10 UTC

William Ruthven was born in 1893 and when he was 21 he enlisted as a private and served in the war for a very long time, he died at age 77 on the 12th of January 1970.

Trooper Frank Fisher

2023-11-10 04:05:34 UTC

Frank Fisher was born in 1880 on the 27th of August, into the Wangan and Jagalingou Aboriginal communities in Clermont, Queensland. Frank Fisher was watched under the eyes of his elders of the community. He spent a lot of his time swimming and playing sports with his family and friends in the local Hoods Lagoon. He then moved later on to the coastal town of Ayr in North Queensland. His first wife was Rosie Shilling, they had three children together. Willie, Frank Junior and Dorris. In 1911, the family was removed from Ayr and relocated in Barambah Aboriginal Settlement, north-west of Brisbane. He still lived at the reserve with his second wife Esme Haywood and his children, working as a labourer at the time of the First World War. The 1909 Defence Act stated that individuals who were "not substantially of European origin or descent" were excluded from training or service in the armed forces. This policy prevented many Indigenous Australians from from enlisting in the First World War. Regardless, more than 1,300 Indigenous Australians still enlisted. One of them was Frank Fisher, who enlisted in AIF on 16th of August 1917, at 38 years old. Unable to write, he signed his enlistment form with an "x". Four months later, he set sail from Sydney, with a reinforcement group for the 11th Light Horse Regiment on board the troopship Ulysses (A38), bound for Egypt. After training he placed an emu plume in his slouch hat, to distinguish himself as a light horseman. His service number was 2428. He returned in Australia on the 20th of July 1919. Frank Fisher is the great grandfather of the Olympic Medallist, Cathy Freeman.

Robert Matthew Beatham

2023-11-10 04:05:45 UTC

Beatham was born on the 16th of June 1894 in the small northern English town of Glassonby, Cumberland. He is one of nine children to his parents John and Elizabeth Beatham. He migrated to Australia with his brother Walter in 1913. Beatham died during the Great War and was tragically the fourth of Elizabeth and John's son to be killed during battle.