Awarded for Valour_ A History of the Victoria Cross and the Evolution of the British Concept of Heroism

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  1. Alexander Cadogan,The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, David Dilks, ed. (New York: Putnam,
    1972), 433.

  2. Churchill,Hinge of Fate, 113–15.

  3. Jablonsky,Churchill, The Great Game, and Total War, 159.

  4. Register, 53. Date of Act: 6 April 1941; Date of gazette: 13 March 1942.

  5. The ships had sustained damage from high altitude multi-aircraft strikes in July and
    April, but in these instances no individual person or aircraft could be credited with
    scoring the hit.

  6. Major Kenneth Muir, Lieutenant-Colonel James Power Carne, Lieutenant Philip Kenneth
    Edward Curtis, and Private William Speakman.

  7. Register, 232; Argyll and Sutherland Highlander Museum Archive Manuscript 15012
    reported his dying words as ‘The gooks will never drive the Argylls off this hill!’

  8. Argyll and Sutherland Highlander Museum Archive Manuscript 15012.

  9. Bob Breen, First to Fight (Nashville: The Battery Press, 1988), 1–11; Terry Burstall,
    Vietnam: The Australian Dilemma(St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1993), 217–20;
    D. M. Horner,Australian Higher Command in the Vietnam War(Canberra: Australian National
    University, 1986), 28–44; Ian McNeill,The Team: Australian Army Advisers in Vietnam, 1962–
    1972 (London: Leo Cooper, 1984), 481–4. The four VC winners are Warrant Officer II
    Kevin A. Wheatley, Major Peter John Badcoe, Warrant Officer II Keith Payne, Warrant
    Officer II Rayene Stewart Simpson.

  10. Register, 18.

  11. Lance Corporal Rambahadur Limbu, Sarawak, 1965, Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Jones
    and Sergeant Ian John McKay, Falklands, 1982.

  12. Register, 206.

  13. Ministry of Defense, ‘Latest News: Private Johnson Gideon Beharry-Victoria Cross’
    http://www.operations.mod.uk/telic/ophons05/beharry.htm Published 18 March
    2005. Accessed 25 February 2007.

  14. Ministry of Defense, ‘Corporal Budd awarded the Victoria Cross’ http//www.mod.
    uk/DefenceInternet/DefenseNews/HistoryandHonour/CorporalBryanBuddAwarded
    theVictoriaCross.htm published 14 December 2006. Accessed 26 February 2007.

  15. PRO File WO/32/7370. Memorandum from Edward Pennington concerning the
    Heaphy recommendation, 5 October 1866.

  16. James Aulich,Framing the Falklands War: Nationhood, Culture and Identity(Milton Keynes: Open
    University Press, 1992), 8, 24.

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