Victoria Cross | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-03

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00:02:54 1 Origin
00:05:32 1.1 Manufacture
00:08:12 2 Appearance
00:10:26 3 Award process
00:15:41 3.1 Colonial awards
00:18:47 3.2 Separate Commonwealth awards
00:23:00 4 Authority and privileges
00:25:06 4.1 Annuity
00:26:40 4.2 Forfeited awards
00:27:47 5 Recipients
00:32:03 6 Public sales
00:33:59 7 Thefts
00:35:24 8 Collections
00:35:33 8.1 Ashcroft collection
00:36:22 8.2 Australian War Memorial
00:37:10 8.3 List of collections
00:37:23 9 Other
00:37:31 9.1 Memorials
00:39:49 9.2 In art
00:41:00 10 See also
00:41:13 11 Notes
00:41:21 11.1 Footnotes



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The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system. It is awarded for valour "in the presence of the enemy" to members of the British Armed Forces. It may be awarded posthumously. It was previously awarded to Commonwealth countries, most of which have established their own honours systems and no longer recommend British honours. It may be awarded to a person of any military rank in any service and to civilians under military command although no civilian has received the award since 1879. Since the first awards were presented by Queen Victoria in 1857, two-thirds of all awards have been personally presented by the British monarch. These investitures are usually held at Buckingham Palace.
The VC was introduced on 29 January 1856 by Queen Victoria to honour acts of valour during the Crimean War. Since then, the medal has been awarded 1,358 times to 1,355 individual recipients. Only 15 medals, of which 11 were to members of the British Army and four were to members of the Australian Army, have been awarded since the Second World War. The traditional explanation of the source of the metal from which the medals are struck is that it derives from Russian cannon captured at the Siege of Sevastopol. However, research has suggested another origin for the material. Historian John Glanfield has established that the metal for most of the medals made since December 1914 came from two Chinese cannon, and that there is no evidence of Russian origin.Owing to its rarity, the VC is highly prized and the medal has fetched over £400,000 at auction. A number of public and private collections are devoted to the Victoria Cross. The private collection of Lord Ashcroft, amassed since 1986, contains over one-tenth of all VCs awarded. Following a 2008 donation to the Imperial War Museum, the Ashcroft collection went on public display alongside the museum's Victoria and George Cross collection in November 2010.Beginning with the Centennial of Confederation in 1967, Canada, followed in 1975 by Australia and New Zealand, developed their own national honours systems, separate from and independent of the British or Imperial honours system. As each country's system evolved, operational gallantry awards were developed with the premier award of each system—the Victoria Cross for Australia, the Canadian Victoria Cross and the Victoria Cross for New Zealand—being created and named in honour of the Victoria Cross. These are unique awards of each honours system, recommended, assessed, gazetted and presented by each country.