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	Victoria Cross [Australian War Memorial]
		The Victoria Cross is the highest award for acts of bravery in wartime.
		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.
	www.awm.gov.au /encyclopedia/vic_cross.htm (344 words)

	List of Victoria Cross recipients by unit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of Victoria Cross recipients by unit.
		See: List of Victoria Cross recipients of the Australian Imperial and Military Forces
		See: List of Victoria Cross recipients of the Canadian Army and Expeditionary Forces
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Victoria_Cross_recipients_by_unit (340 words)

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		List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge
		List of Victoria Cross recipients of the New Zealand Expeditionary and Military Forces
		List of Victoria Cross recipients of the Royal Marines
	www.gurunet.com /cm-dsname-Wikipedia-dsid-2222-letter-1L-first-29101 (322 words)

	Victoria Cross Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Where a recipient was serving, on attachment to another unit at the time of winning the VC, or subsequently transferred to another unit, the award will sometimes be 'claimed' by both the recipient's original unit and also by the one to which he was attached or transferred.
		The Victoria Cross for Australia was established on 15 Jan 1991 as the highest Australian operational gallantry award.
		It is worth remembering that many servicemen who merited the Victoria Cross never received it because their actions went unnoticed, or the witnesses were killed, or whose self-sacrifice resulted in a lonely death in an unmarked grave.
	www.victoriacross.net /facts.asp (1373 words)

	Glossary \| Victoria University of Wellington
		The Victoria University Council is the governing body of the University, established under section 165 of the Education Act.
		Victoria University has six faculties: Architecture and Design, Commerce and Administration, Education, Humanities and Social Sciences, Law, and Science, each of which is headed by a Dean.
		Schools are operational units of the University which carry out teaching, research and scholarship functions.
	www.vuw.ac.nz /home/glossary (3390 words)

	VC Recipients (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Victoria Cross is the realm's highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy.
		The Cross itself is cast from the bronze of cannons captured at Sevastopol during the Crimean War.
		One Victoria Cross was awarded for action in Canada - that to Private T. O'Hea of the Rifle Brigade (Irish) for extinguishing a fire in the ammunition car of a train.
	www.mysteriesofcanada.com /VC_Recipients/vc_recipients.htm (370 words)

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	list.msu.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9612B&L=aejmc&P=R44055&D=0 (6547 words)

	VC. History of our most respected award
		The Victoria Cross was born in the carnage of the Crimean War, even though hostilities had ceased a good twelve months before the first award was made.
		The maximum number of clasps on one Cross is nine, commemorating thirteen actions in all; not surprisingly this was awarded to the Duke of Wellington.
		The final list of recipients was not published in the London Gazette until 22 June, and Hancock's had to work around the clock to engrave the names of the recipients on the Crosses.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-medals/history-vc.htm (2222 words)

	Recipients of the Victoria Cross Prior to 1914 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Instituted by Queen Victoria on 5 February, 1856, the Victoria Cross was intended to reward individual acts of bravery.
		Regimental unit names are those in use when the particular V.C. was granted, and the date listed is when the act of bravery was performed.
		No Victoria Crosses were awarded from 1905 until the First World War in 1914, so these 522 first awards stand in a group by themselves.
	www.antiquesatoz.com /stephenherold/vc/vclist06.htm (222 words)

	Orders, Decorations and Medals - Medals by Country - Medals of Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Relatives of deceased Victoria Cross recipients and the 21 living awardees were invited to Westminster Abbey for the unveiling of the special memorial.
		The family of a Victoria Cross holder who served alongside Laurence of Arabia and is buried in a West Wirral cemetery have paid tribute to him after a ceremony to lay a plaque on his grave.
		A Victoria Cross hero of the Charge of the Light Brigade is to be honoured in the town of his birth.
	www.geocities.com /dco700/Britain.htm (9260 words)

	Query concerning personal information on Knights of Iron Cross recipients early 1870 - Wehrmacht-Awards.com Militaria ...
		He was a Knight of the Iron Cross and a Lieutenant in the service of the Emperor of Germany in or prior to 1874.
		Victoria: since I am not only a military researcher but a genealogist (New England English only), I can tell you that you need to provide ALL the information you have: birthdate, birthplace, death date, death place.
		Do you have the award document (which lists his unit and rank title?) Do you have a photo--in which case his uniform provides clues (yes, even the photographer's name and address sometimes helps).
	www.wehrmacht-awards.com /forums/showthread.php?t=4085 (588 words)

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	Queen Victoria's Scaves
		The recipients were required to be chosen by a vote of the NCOs and men of each unit, and approved by the Commanding Officer.
		It was at one time believed to be equivalent to the Victoria Cross but this is not the case.
		The question of precedence has continued over the years and, even as late as 1956, it was raised again, when a descendent of one of the holders reqested permission to attend the VC Centenary Celebrations.
	www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk /museum/agq_0109.html (410 words)

	The Victoria Cross - South African Military History Society
		The Victoria Cross is a bronze Maltese Cross, made from the metal of two Russian guns captured at Sebastopol, in the Crimea.
		The Victoria Cross could be forfeited for infamous conduct on the part of the recipient.
		I believe that the nationality of the "unit in which served" (not merely attached to) at the time of the action should be the deciding factor.
	rapidttp.com /milhist/vol017iu.html (1648 words)

	KUNSAN AIR BASE: How It Was - MEDALS PAGE (FOR KUNSAN KOREAN WAR VETS)
		The Navy Unit Commendation may be awarded by the Secretary of the Navy to any unit of the Navy or Marine Corps that distinguishes itself by outstanding heroism in action against an enemy (but not sufficiently to justify the award of the Presidential Unit Citation).
		The list of qualifying awards was scaled back to awards characteristic of the intent of the CSC as established by the Legislature in the early 1920's.
		Recipients are Belgians or foreigners serving in Belgian units serving in foreign theatres of operations.
	www.kalaniosullivan.com /KunsanAB/3rdBW/Medals.html (12461 words)

	MOH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Eight MOH recipients and two non recipients were present (at least that is all I was able to find).
		Australian Victoria Cross recipient, Keith Payne, was a guest of the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.
		Alexander S. (Mary Ann Lamar Cobb) Erwin of Athens, Georgia, conceived the idea of the United Daughters of the Confederacy bestowing the Southern Cross of Honor on the Confederate Veteran while attending a reunion of Confederate veterans in Atlanta, Georgia, in July of 1898.
	www.hotlinecy.com /moh.htm (5487 words)

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	Sewing Charity - Directory of all charitable sewing, knitting, crochet and quilting projects
		Trauma Teddy- Knit teddy bears to be donated through the Red Cross to traumatized children and adults.
		Friends to Seniors- Cross stitch squares to create lap quilts to be donated to residential homes throughout the UK, and pillows, to be donated to individuals.
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	www.dotdigital.com /sewingcharity/location.html (4292 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Hawaii News
		Among the recipients are 18 of Inouye's Japanese-American comrades from the 100th Battalion and the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
		Of the remaining recipients of the sky-blue ribboned medal, one was Chinese Hawaiian and the other, Randolph Davila, is Filipino Spanish American and still alive.
		His Distinguished Service Cross was one of 52 awarded to the 100th Battalion and the 442nd as the unit achieved the distinction of being the most decorated for its size and length of service in American military history.
	starbulletin.com /2000/05/12/news/story3.html (1901 words)

	Medal groups of interest Page 5
		The only British combatant in either of the World Wars to be awarded a Victoria Cross on the basis of evidence given by the enemy he had engaged.
		A United States of America Presidential Unit Citation was also awarded to members of the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment.
		It was awarded on behalf of the United Nations for operational service in the Korean Campaign from 27 June 1950 to 26 July 1954, and in some instances, for unauthorized service in Japan of a unit which directly assisted operations in Korea.
	diggerhistory.info /pages-medals/groups5.htm (1360 words)

	HomeOfHeroes Forum - Recent Posts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Subedar Major and honorary Captain Umrao Singh, the last surviving Indian Victoria Cross recipient died at the Army Research and Referral hospital in New Delhi on 21 November 2005 after a prolonged illness.
		Singh, 85, of Jhajjar in Rohtak, Haryana, was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest award for bravery under imperial India for beating off four Japanese attacks on his advanced battery position at Kaladhan valley in Burma on the night of December 15-16, 1944.
		However in the half century following the institution of the Victoria Cross the status of the Victoria Cross grew out of all proportion and in 1911 after some lobbying the Victoria Cross was extended to the Indian Army soldiers.
	www.homeofheroes.com /cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?action=recent (1052 words)

	IslandMix - Grenada born soldier awarded VictoriaCross
		Private Johnson Gideon Beharry, 25, is now one of just 14 living recipients of the award which he received for saving the lives of 30 comrades under remorseless attacks from grenades and machinegun fire in the volatile city of al-Amarah, north of Basra.
		Didy Grahame, secretary of the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association, said other VC holders were delighted to have a new member.
		Queen Victoria had pronounced that the VC was “to be awarded to those officers and men who have served us in the presence of the enemy and shall there have performed some single act of valour or devotion to their country”
	www.islandmix.com /backchat/showthread.php?t=78394 (1381 words)

	Victoria Cross Site Update News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Recipient pages have been modified so that registered members can assist in this project.
		These days spam email is a real problem and there are now systems which "harvest" email addresses from web sites on which they are listed (for example in message forums).
		In the near future I want to be able to allow members to add and edit their own submitted recipient information.
	www.victoriacross.net /wnew.asp (956 words)

	bit-tech.net Forums - Soldier awarded Victoria Cross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A British soldier serving in Iraq who saved 30 members of his unit from an ambush has been awarded the first Victoria Cross for more than 20 years.
		The Victoria Cross is supposidly the hardest medal in the world to get.
		The Victoria Cross is the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
	forums.bit-tech.net /showthread.php?t=85911 (1355 words)

	X9.59 mailing list (2002 1/23 - 12/31) Anne & Lynn Wheeler
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	www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5210a1.htm (13754 words)

	WWW-VL: History: Military History
		F 19, the Swedish unit in Finland during the Winter War
		Recipients of the Victoria Cross Associated with the North-East of England
		Source List and Detailed Death Tolls for the Man-made Megadeaths of the Twentieth Century
	vlib.iue.it /history/mil (1944 words)

	Victoria Cross Books - Monuments To Courage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		David Harvey has located them all, and is assisting with having suitable memorials erected on the graves of these men who currently lie in forgotten paupers' graves in a country for which they gave their all.
		Descendants and families of recipients, searches in forgotten files in a variety of repositories and even antique shops have produced well over 5,000 photographs, many never seen before, permitting three to be included with most entries.
		Queen Victoria would play poker etc with these medallions, and they were used as `currency` as the Royals considered it too vulgar and coarse to handle money.
	www.chapter-one.com /subbook.asp?book=89 (3404 words)

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