List of New South Wales Victoria Cross recipients
Appendix 2
Group of VC winners. Image ST6758.
This list of NSW Victoria Cross recipients is in chronological order. The Victoria Cross is the highest award for acts of bravery in wartime and can be awarded to any serving member of the Australian armed forces.
Lone Pine, Gallipoli 1915
Lance Corporal Leonard Keyser (1895-1951), 1st Battalion AIF
Private John Patrick Hamilton (1896-1961), 3rd Battalion AIF
Captain Alfred John Shout (1882-1915), 1st Battalion AIF
Somme Valley and French Flanders 1916-17
Private John William Alexander ‘Billy’ Jackson (1897-1959), 17th Battalion AIF
Sergeant Claud Charles Castleton (1893-1916), 5th Machine Gun Company AIF
Captain Henry William ‘Harry’ Murray (1880-1966), 13th Battalion AIF
Private Thomas James Bede Kenny (1896-1953), 2nd Battalion AIF
Corporal George Julian ‘Snowy’ Howell (1893-1964), 1st Battalion AIF
Ypres Salient, Belgium 1917
Private Patrick Joseph ‘Paddy’ Bugden (1897-1917), 31st Battalion AIF
Captain Clarence Smith Jefferies (1894-1917), 34th Battalion AIF
Somme Valley, France 1918
Lieutenant Percy Valentine Storkey (1891-1969), 19th Battalion AIF
Corporal Walter Ernest ‘Wally’ Brown (1995-1942), 20th Battalion AIF
Private George Cartwright (1894-1978), 33rd Battalion AIF
Temporary Corporal Alexander Henry Buckley (1891-1918), 54th Battalion AIF
Private William Matthew Currey (1895-1948), 53rd Battalion AIF
Corporal Arthur Charles Hall (1896-1978), 54th Battalion AIF
Private Edward John Francis Ryan (1890-1941), 55th Battalion AIF
Major Blair Anderson Wark (1894-1941), 32nd Battalion AIF
Lieutenant Joseph Maxwell (1896-1967), 18th Battalion AIF
For more details on these people view People Profiles on the Australian War Memorial website.
List taken from Brad Manera’s New South Wales and the Great War 1914 to 1918: A Report commissioned by the New South Wales Centenary of Anzac Commemoration Committee, 2011
