Victoria Cross for Australia
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The Victoria Cross for Australia is the highest award in the Australian honours system, superseding the British Victoria Cross for issue to Australians. The Victoria Cross for Australia is the "decora
Trooper Donaldson's medals on display at the Australian War Memorial. His Victoria Cross for Australia is at left.
The Australian War Memorial which holds 66 Victoria Crosses
Trooper Mark Donaldson shortly after receiving the Victoria Cross for Australia from Governor-General Quentin Bryce
Governor-General Quentin Bryce presenting Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith with the Victoria Cross for Australia
Mark Donaldson
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Mark Gregor Strang Donaldson is an Australian soldier and a recipient of the Victoria Cross for Australia, the highest award in the Australian honours system. Then Trooper Donaldson was a member of th
Victoria Cross for Australia
…Tribunal. As at October 2024, six Victoria Cross for Australia had been awarded, three posthumously. The first was awarded on 16 January 2009 to Trooper Mark Donaldson, who had rescued an International Security Assistance Force interpreter under heavy fire in Uruzgan Province in Afghanistan. Donaldson's award came…
Corporal Mark Donaldson in 2014
The M4 carbine used by Donaldson during the action for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia on display at the Australian War Memorial
Donaldson with family (centre) and other dignitaries after the investiture ceremony.