page_title: Ben Roberts-Smith
section_title: Honours and awards
hierarchical_section_title: Ben Roberts-Smith / Honours and awards
caption_attribution_description: English: Ben Roberts-Smith's medals on display at the Australian War Memorial in December 2011
context_page_description: Benjamin Roberts-Smith, VC, MG is an Australian businessman, former Australian Army soldier and a recipient of the Victoria Cross for Australia, the highest award in the Australian honours system. Roberts-Smith was awarded the VC for his actions during a helicopter assault into Tizak on 11 June 2010 as part of an offensive in the Shah Wali Kot region while serving with the Special Air Service Regiment in Afghanistan. The medal, together with his Medal for Gallantry awarded during a tour of Afghanistan in 2006, made Roberts-Smith the most highly decorated serving member of the Australian Defence Force. He was presented with the VC by the Governor-General of Australia, Quentin Bryce, at a ceremony in Perth on 23 January 2011. He was also later awarded a Commendation for Distinguished Service for his leadership as a patrol commander during a 2012 tour of Afghanistan.
  Roberts-Smith left the full-time army in 2013 to study business at the University of Queensland. In 2014 he was appointed chair of the National Australia Day Council and made deputy general manager of the regional television network Seven Queensland.
context_section_description: Roberts-Smith was named Australian Father of the Year in 2013.
caption: Medals on display at the Australian War Memorial. (Note that this display does not include his full entitlement.)
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