Victoria Cross for Australia

The Victoria Cross for Australia (VC) is the highest military decoration given for bravery "in the face of the enemy" to members of the Australia Armed Forces. The medal was called the Victoria Cross, but the name was changed in 1991. The Victoria Cross was started in 1856 for bravery in the Crimean War. The first medals were made from captured Russian cannons. The Victoria Cross for Australia looks exactly the same as the Victoria Cross.
The first winner of the Victoria Cross for Australia is SAS Trooper Mark Donaldson. Donaldson won the medal for bravery in Afghanistan in September 2008. The medal was given to him in a ceremony on January 16, 2009. He was the first winner of a VC for 40 years.
Australian winners of the Victoria Cross
1900 to 1920
1900 - John Bisdee, Second Boer War
1900 - Sir Neville Howse, Second Boer War
1900 - Guy Wylly, Second Boer War
1901 - Frederick Bell, Second Boer War
1901 - Leslie Maygar, Second Boer War, Geelhoutboom, South Africa
1901 - James Rogers, Second Boer War
1915 - Alexander Burton, Gallipoli Campaign
1915 - Wilbur Dartnell, Maktau, Kenya
1915 - William Dunstan, World War I, Gallipoli Campaign
1915 - John Patrick Hamilton, World War I, Gallipoli Campaign
1915 - Albert Jacka, Gallipoli Campaign
1915 - Leonard Keysor, World War I, Gallipoli Campaign
1915 - Alfred Shout, Gallipoli Campaign
1915 - William Symons, World War I, Gallipoli Campaign
1915 - Hugo Throssell, World War I, Gallipoli Campaign
1915 - Frederick Tubb, World War I, Gallipoli Campaign
1916 - Arthur Blackburn, World War I, Pozieres, France
1916 - Claud Castleton, Pozieres, France
1916 - Thomas Cooke, Pozieres, France
1916 - William Jackson, World War I, Armentieres, France
1916 - John Leak, World War I, Pozieres, France
1916 - Martin O'Meara, World War I, Pozieres, France
1917 - Frederick Birks, Battle of Passchendaele
1917 - Patrick Bugden, Zonnebeke, Belgium
1917 - Percy Cherry, Lagnicourt, France
1917 - John Carroll, World War I, Battle of Messines (1917)
1917 - John Dwyer, World War I, Zonnebeke, Belgium
1917 - Robert Grieve, World War I, Battle of Messines (1917)
1917 - George Howell, World War I, Battle of Arras (1917)
1917 - Roy Inwood, World War I, Battle of the Menin Road Ridge
1917 - Clarence Jeffries, First Battle of Passchendaele
1917 - Jorgen Jensen, World War I, Noreuil, France
1917 - Bede Kenny, World War I, Hermies, France
1917 - Lewis McGee, Battle of Ypres
1917 - Frank McNamara, World War I, Capture of Wadi el Hesi
1917 - Mick Moon, World War I, Battle of Arras (1917)
1917 - Harry Murray, World War I
1917 - James Newland, World War I, Bapaume, France
1917 - Walter Peeler, World War I, Battle of Ypres
1917 - Charles Pope, Louveral, France
1917 - John Whittle, World War I
1918 - Thomas Axford, World War I, Battle of Hamel
1918 - Robert Beatham, Battle of Rosieres
1918 - Albert Borella, World War I, Villers-Bretonneux, France
1918 - Walter Brown, World War I, Villers-Bretonneux, France
1918 - Alexander Buckley, Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin
1918 - Maurice Buckley, World War I, Le Verguier, France
1918 - George Cartwright, World War I, Bouchavesnes, France
1918 - William Currey, World War I, Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin
1918 - Henry Dalziel, World War I, Battle of Hamel
1918 - Phillip Davey, World War I, Merris, France
1918 - Alfred Gaby, Villers-Bretonneux, France
1918 - Bernard Gordon, World War I, Battle of Amiens
1918 - Arthur Hall, World War I, Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin
1918 - George Ingram, World War I, Montbrehain, France
1918 - William Joynt, World War I, Battle of Herleville Wood
1918 - Alby Lowerson, World War I, Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin
1918 - Robert MacTier, Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin
1918 - Joseph Maxwell, World War I, Estrees, France
1918 - Dominic McCarthy, World War I, Vermandovillers, France
1918 - Stanley McDougall, World War I, Dernancourt, France
1918 - William Ruthven, World War I, Ville-sur-Ancre, France
1918 - John Ryan, World War I, Hindenburg Defences, France
1918 - Clifford Sadlier, World War I, Villers-Bretonneux, France
1918 - Percy Statton, World War I, Proyart, France
1918 - Percy Storkey, World War I, Hangard Wood, France
1918 - Edgar Towner, World War I, Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin
1918 - Blair Wark, World War I, Bellicourt, France
1918 - Lawrence Weathers, World War I, Peronne, France
1918 - James Park Woods, World War I, Le Verguier, France
1919 - Arthur Percy Sullivan, North Russia Campaign
1919 - Samuel Pearse, North Russia Campaign
1941 - 1969
1941 - Roden Cutler, Syria-Lebanon Campaign
1941 - Corporal John Edmondson, Tobruk
1941 - Hughie Edwards, Bremen
1941 - Jim Gordon, Djezzine, Lebanon
1942 - Charles Groves Wright Anderson, Malaya
1942 - Percy Gratwick, El Alamein, Egypt
1942 - Stan Gurney, Egypt
1942 - Jack French, Milne Bay, New Guinea
1942 - Percy Gratwick
1942 - Bill Kibby, El Alamein, Egypt
1942 - Bruce Kingsbury, Kokoda Trail, Papua New Guinea
1942 - Ron Middleton, Turin, Italy
1943 - Tom Derrick, New Guinea
1943 - Richard Kelliher, New Guinea
1943 - Bill Newton, New Guinea
1945 - Albert Chowne, Dagua, New Guinea
1945 - Edward Kenna, New Guinea
1945 - John Bernard Mackey, Tarakan Island, Borneo
1945 - Frank Partridge, Bougainville Campaign, Solomon Islands
1945 - Reg Rattey, Bougainville, Solomon Islands
1945 - Leslie Thomas Starcevich, Battle of North Borneo
1965 - Kevin Wheatley, Vietnam
1967 - Peter Badcoe, Huong Tra, Vietnam
1969 - Keith Payne, Ben Het Camp, Vietnam
1969 -Ray Simpson, Vietnam
Winners of the Victoria Cross for Australia
2008 - Mark Donaldson, SAS, for bravery in Afghanistan, Urozgan Province
2010 - Daniel Keighran, War in Afghanistan, Urozgan Province
2011 - Ben Roberts-Smith, War in Afghanistan, Kandahar Province
2013 - Cameron Baird, War in Afghanistan, Khod Valley
References
Orders, decorations, and medals of Australia
1856 establishments in Australia