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Victoria Cross
World War II Pacific and Korean War

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The Victoria Cross (VC) was instituted in 1856 as the highest decoration for valour to be awarded to British and Commonwealth military.  In total, 1.355 VCs have been awarded for actions from the Crimean War (1854) until the most recent war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The first Victoria Cross to be awarded for actions during the war against Japan was to S/Ldr A. S. K. Scarf of the Royal Air Force (RAF) for actions in Malaya on December 9, 1941. The last was awarded to T/Lt R. H. Gray of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) for his part in attacking a Japanese destroyer off Honshu, Japan on August 9, 1945.

Borneo
Pte John Bernard Mackey, Australian Army
Pte Leslie Thomas Starcevich, Australian Army

Hong Kong
Sgt Maj John Robert Osborn, Canadian Army

Japan
T/Lt Robert Hampton Gray, RCN

Malaya
Lt Col Charles Groves Wright Anderson, Australian Army
Lt Col Arthur Edward Cumming, Indian Army
S/Ldr Arthur Stewart King Scarf, RAF
T/Lt Thomas Wilkinson, RN

New Guinea
Lt Albert Chowne, Australian Army
Sgt Thomas Currie Derrick, Australian Army
Cpl John Alexander French, Australian Army
Pte Richard Kelliher, Australian Army
Pte Edward Kenna, Australian Army
Pte Bruce Steel Kingsbury, Australian Army
F/Lt William Ellis Newton, RAAF

Singapore
Lt Ian Edward Fraser, RN
A/Ldg Smn James Joseph Magennis, RN

Solomon Islands (Bougainville)
Pte Frank John Partridge, Australian Army
Cpl Reginald Roy Rattey, Australian Army
Cpl Sefanaia Sukanaivalu, Fijian Army

Korean War
Kenneth Muir
James Carne
Philip Curtis
Bill Speakman
Victoria Cross

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