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	Victoria Cross [Australian War Memorial]
		The Victoria Cross is designed in the form of the Maltese Cross, in the centre of the medal is a lion guardant standing upon the Royal Crown.
		On the reverse of the cross the date of the act of bravery is inscribed, along with the name, rank, and unit of the recipient.
		The collection also includes the cross of the first Australian winner of the Second World War, Corporal John Edmondson, who died in the exploit at Tobruk for which the award was made.
	www.awm.gov.au /encyclopedia/vic_cross.htm (331 words)

	Category:Military lists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		List of aircraft of Italy, World War II
		List of aircraft of Russia, World War II
		List of aircraft of the British, World War II
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Military_lists (272 words)

	Category:World War I Victoria Cross recipients - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		New Zealand World War I Victoria Cross recipients
		South African World War I Victoria Cross recipients
		List of First World War Victoria Cross recipients
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:World_War_I_Victoria_Cross_recipients (99 words)

	The Victoria Cross
		Neither side distinguished itself during the war, and the British army was found to have degenerated in the crucial areas of leadership and administration.
		When the ribbon is worn alone a miniature of the Cross is pinned on it, a bar being indicated by a second miniature worn beside the first (when first approved in 1916, a single miniature indicated the award of a bar; from 1917 this was changed to the current configuration).
		Details of the recipient are engraved in capital letters on the reverse of the suspender bar, and the date or dates of the act of gallantry in the centre circle of the reverse of the Cross.
	www.vvaa.org.au /med-vc.htm (758 words)

	GENEoNZ- NZ Armed Forces
		NEW ZEALAND CROSS, people who won the (©1994 The Electric Book Co Ltd.) Details of New Zealand Cross winners who fought in the New Zealand Wars (1840-1880's) on the side of the colonial and British forces against Maori men, women and children.
		VICTORIA CROSS, New Zealander's who won the (©1994 The Electric Book Co Ltd.) Details of New Zealand Victoria Cross winners who fought in the New Zealand Wars, South African War (Boer War), World War One (The Great War) and World War Two.
		The South African War Virtual Library (©1997 Robert Wotton, Univ of Queensland, Aust) Lists divisions of the "Rough Rider's" that represented New Zealand, or "Maoriland", during the Boer War.
	www.geocities.com /wlorac/nzatwar.htm (1324 words)

	Recipients of the Victoria Cross Prior to 1914
		Recipients of the Victoria Cross Prior to 1914
		Instituted by Queen Victoria on 5 February, 1856, the Victoria Cross was intended to reward individual acts of bravery.
		It was the lesson of the Crimean War that showed the lack of any adequate way to reward brave actions by lower ranking officers and enlisted men.The Decoration is made of bronze, originally from captured Russian cannons in the Crimea, and so its worth lay only in its honor and not its intrinsic value.
	www.antiquesatoz.com /stephenherold/vc/vclist06.htm (222 words)

	The National Archives \| DocumentsOnline \| World War One medal cards
		To qualify, the recipient had to have been a member of the Territorial Force on or prior to 30 September 1914, and to have served in an operational theatre outside of the United Kingdom between 5 August 1914 and 11 November 1918.
		The fields you can search on are last name, first name (or initial) and corps, and you can search on their rank and regimental number in the other keywords field (you cannot search on the medals themselves).
		The Gazettes for the First World War period are on microfilm.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /documentsonline/medals.asp (3377 words)

	RGJ For Valour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The youngest brother of a VC holder from the First World War, he was commanding 2nd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade at El Alamein in North Africa, when it was counter-attacked by German panzers.
		The Victoria Cross was instituted by Royal Warrant of 29 January 1856, made retrospective to the autumn of 1854 to cover the Crimean War.
		Queen Victoria was intimately involved in the design, which she expressly wished to be simple and unpretentious.
	www.army.mod.uk /royalgreenjackets/museum/valour.html (749 words)

	Victoria Cross Society Sample Articles
		I first became interested in the Crimean War Victoria Cross recipient, James Gorman, when I was shown a portrait of him by my future father-in-law, who had been married to one of Gorman's six grand-daughters.
		Whatever his grievance, he was not entitled to the Victoria Cross and, whether deliberately or through a misunderstanding, he managed to convince enough people of this claim that successive reference works accept him to be the rightful James Gorman.
		Two Victoria Cross recipients from the neighbouring riverside communities of Dartmouth and Kingswear were honoured in two ceremonies that took place, appropriately, on Remembrance Sunday, 10 November and Armistice Day, 11 November 2002.
	www.victoriacrosssociety.com /sample_articles.htm (8118 words)

	The George Cross
		There existed many decorations and medals instituted by his predecessors for the reward of gallantry and meritorious conduct, but these, by their terms of reference, were restricted in the main to members of the armed forces and only one of them, the Victoria Cross, was open to award of all ranks.
		The planning of the George Cross and Medal was therefore of particular pleasure and interest to him, and the final design was almost entirely his own work, for he had sketched out an original device and had studied and amended with meticulous care the subsequent drafts presented to him.
		The cross, which is worn before all other decorations except the Victoria Cross, is suspended from a dark blue ribbon threaded through a bar adorned with laurel leaves.
	www.angelfire.com /va/violetteszabo/georgecross.html (1277 words)

	World War I Military History Books
		VCs [Victoria Crosses] of the First World War: GALLIPOLI
		Coverage of each month of the Somme battle is self-contained, with an overall introduction to the fighting in that month, a list of regiments and corps involved on both sides of the lines and a breakdown of the individual battles for corps objectives that characterized the campaign.
		For the first time it is possible to read about the progress of a specific British brigade through reserve trenches, frontlines, no-man's-land and captured enemy positions and to trace that unit on comprehensive maps.
	arms2armor.com /Books/ww1books.htm (1245 words)

	First World War.com - Encyclopedia - Mentioned in Despatches
		In addition, during the First World War an emblem of bronze oak leaves - which signified that the medal recipient had received an 'MiD' - was also worn on the ribbon of the Victory Medal.
		Unlike other awards recipients of MiDs were not entitled to list any additional initials after their name.
		The award was one of two - along with the Victoria Cross - which could be awarded posthumously.
	www.firstworldwar.com /atoz/mid.htm (208 words)

	Remembrance Day
		A writer first made the connection between the poppy and battlefield deaths during the Napoleonic wars of the early 19th century, remarking that fields that were barren before battle exploded with the blood-red flowers after the fighting ended.
		During the first half of this century, some 1.5 million Canadians were called upon to defend peace and freedom around the world during the First World War, the Second Canadians died.
		In 1918 the armistice that ended World War I came into force, bringing to an end four years of hostilities that saw 61 919 Australians die at sea, in the air, and on foreign soil.
	www.cdli.ca /CITE/remembranceday.htm (1385 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Victoria Cross - A665192
		The First VC The VC has its origins in the Crimean War - a particularly bloody conflict and also the first in which British journalists were able to report home on the rigours of battle, the effects of poor equipment, and the ravages of cholera and typhoid among the troops.
		Queen Victoria chose the design based on a gold-cross awarded in the Peninsular War, and in particular she decided on the motto 'For Valour'.
		The legend goes that the first VCs were made from the metal of Russian guns captured at the Siege of Sebastpol.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A665192 (980 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The first gallantry awards were instituted during the Crimean War: the Distinguished Conduct Medal in 1854, and the Victoria Cross in 1856.
		The Victoria Cross register of recipients (all services) is in WO 98/3-5 and WO 98/8.
		Those for the Victoria Cross are in AIR 2 (for 1939-1942); in AIR 2/5010 (for 1943-1944) and in AIR 2/5867 (for 1944-1946).
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /catalogue/Leaflets/ri2297.htm (1344 words)

	Canadian Genealogy and History Links - Military
		The Queen's/King's Medal Listing of Canadian recipients of this medal which was awarded to the Champion Shot of the Military Forces of the United Kingdom.
		War of 1812-1814 The soldiers, weapons of the War, United Empire Loyalists, battles from the War of 1812, women during the War, and links to other War of 1812 sites.
		World War One - Josiah Chancellor Kennedy The story of Josiah Alexander Chancellor Kennedy who enlisted in the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, moved to the Royal Irish Rifles, then served out the remainder of WWI in a German POW camp.
	www.islandnet.com /~jveinot/cghl/military.html (2992 words)

	EXN.ca \| Discovery
		First of all, being the ignoramus that I am, I had no idea that Remembrance Day was the end to an entire commemorative week-called Veteran's Week, which runs from Nov 5th to Nov 11th this year.
		However, this year there is a special focus on the First World War -and the more than 619,000 men and women who served in the armed forces at the time-in order to mark the 80th anniversary of the war's end.
		Because of the tremendous bombing during the war the chalk soils in Flanders became rich in lime, which allowed poppy flowers to thrive.
	www.exn.ca /Stories/1998/11/10/51.asp (984 words)

	Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		C'mon Cyrius, this was 70.181.217.64's first contribution and it happened on our Help page.
		The list of WWI recipients is very large, and may easily have missed someone.
		All the money needed to run one of the world's most popular websites comes from donations, and with traffic increasing all the time it's hard to keep up with demand.
	www.brujula.net /english/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk.html (7888 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The medal, which bears the inscription ``For Valour,'' was first bestowed on June 21, 1854, to Mate Charles Lucas of the Royal Navy during the Crimean War.
		The remaining cascabel from the Crimean War is kept in Donnington, England and weighs 358 ounces, according to the ministry.
		Only 12 Victoria Crosses have been awarded since the end of World War II, and a total of 14 holders of the medal, including Beharry, are still alive.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=aP7Rne21pw3s&refer=europe (776 words)

	World War I, Links to Other Resources
		Documents of World War I assembled by Vincent Ferraro of Mount Holyoke College.
		War Diaries of the First World War - diaries of Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) units, digitised by the National Archives.
		The surveys of World War I veterans in Virginia, a fully-searchable database of over 14,900 records, one for each questionnaire respondent, accessible by name, city/county, and race.
	www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/links.html (2388 words)

	Bitapaka War Cemetery
		Its Second World War marks are testament to the atrocities and ill treatment of Allied POWs in who died at the hands of their Japanese captors, or worked to death as slave labor.
		Ironically, the first casualty was a Japanese officer, then an Allied against Germany, who lead the assault against the station.
		The graves and tall plaques that list the missing in action and buried dead are silent reminders to the brutal Japanese occupation, that used its prisoners as slave labor, or shamelessly killed them in atrocious crimes or even used them for bayoneted practice.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /provinces/png_bitapaka.html (314 words)

	Victoria Cross Recipients (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The following list of Victoria Cross recipients is not complete.
		These are the Canadian recipients who fought in the First and Second World Wars.
		The highlighted names in the following lists have a link to a brief account of what the recipient did in order to receive the commendation.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /courage/victoriacrossrecipients.html (49 words)

	Canada’s Recipients of the Victoria Cross
		My rationale was that one stamp be for Bishop, a First World War airman, who also did significant work during the Second World War.
		The second stamp was to feature Sgt. Major John Osborn, the first to receive the VC in the Second World War, a soldier and veteran of the Royal Navy in the First War.
		Thus both major wars and the three services would be represented.
	www.hkvca.ca /submissions/2004-Newsletter-Ron-McGuire-VC.htm (220 words)

	Amazon.com: Knight's Cross and Oak-Leaves Recipients 1939-40 (Elite): Books: Gordon Williamson,Ramiro Bujeiro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		THE IRON CROSS was instituted in 1813, and is what is known as a 'temporary' award - one that is only presented when the nation is in a state of war.
		However, the bulk of this volume is geared toward the 24 capsule biographies of Knights Cross recipients in the period 1939-1940.
		He notes that some of the recipients, such as Lieutenant Schwarzmann, were decorated more for propaganda reasons to create a "paratrooper hero." The career of Luftwaffe bomber expert Major Baumbach is also interesting, given the huge impact that he had upon Allied shipping (he sank more merchant ships than even the top U-Boat aces).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1841766410?v=glance (1418 words)

	Victoria Cross Awards Prior to WWI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The foundation of the Victoria Cross by Queen Victoria in 1856 marked the recognition by hitherto aristocratic governments of the value of the brave fulfillment of duty by ordinary soldiers.
		Lists all Victoria Cross holders with grave sites in the United Kingdom with details on grave locations, as well as the award details and biographical info.
		A list of all Indian recipients of the VC, with details.
	www.antiquesatoz.com /stephenherold/vc (160 words)

	Published Works
		Below is a list of titles that the artwork of Bob Pearson and Chris Banyai-Riepl has appeared in.
		This is a book that has been in the works for well over a decade, and the final result is nothing short of spectacular.
		A large volume, this book walks you through the interesting world of British Squadron markings during World War I. The text is fascinating, and the photos interesting, but the color profiles by Bob Pearson really show just how colorful the British aircraft could be.
	www.cbrnp.com /profiles/published (280 words)

	Australia (British Empire & Commonwealth Land Forces)
		First English settlement 1788; continent claimed by Britain 1829.
		Regiments and Corps of the Australian Army: an Introductory Overview (keyed to Army Lists from various historical periods), by T.F. Mills.
		The Anzac Illusion: Anglo-Australian Relations during World War I by E. Andrews.
	www.regiments.org /nations/oceania/austral.htm (960 words)

	The Blogging Tories
		Wednesday, August 2, is the first anniverary of Vincent's kidnapping and murder by Iraqi paramilitaries.
		It is one of several, smuggled from behind Lebanon's battle lines, showing that Hezbollah is waging war amid suburbia.
		In the midst of fighting a war, Israel callsa time out for an investigatioin.
	www.bloggingtories.ca (2946 words)

	ww1topics
		First Worldwar.com: Propaganda Posters: countries listed on left side.
		World War I: A New Kind of War: Shell Shock
		First World War.com-The Minor Powers During W W 1
	www.lfelem.lfc.edu /resources/sstudies/ww1topics/ww1topics.htm (333 words)

	Books about World War II - D-G
		Here is an alphabetical list of books about the Second World War, compiled by a librarian, that are currently available (in print).
		The Diary of Alice Mary: A Factual Childhood Diary Written During the World War II Years by Joe Connally for His Young Motherless Child...
		Empires on the Pacific: World War II and the Struggle for the Mastery of Asia by Robert Smith Thompson
	home.att.net /~newbooks/WWIIbooks2.html (7608 words)

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