Percy Storkey
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Percy Valentine Storkey, VC was a New Zealand-born Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth
Captain Percy Storkey VC, 1918
Oil portrait of Captain Percy Valentine Storkey, VC, AIF, painted by Duncan Max Meldrum around 1920
5th Brigade (Australia)
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5th Brigade is a brigade of the Australian Army. Originally raised as a militia formation in 1912, the 5th Brigade was re-raised for overseas service in 1915 as part of the Australian Imperial Force d
Percy Storkey
…he was given temporary command of a company. On 21 March 1918, the Germans began their huge Spring Offensive and the 19th Battalion, as part of the 5th Brigade of the 2nd Division, helped in shoring up the front-lines as the Germans advanced. On 7 April 1918, while holding the lines near Villers-Bretonneux…
5th Brigade at Picardie, France, 8 August 1918