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		<title>Tobruk Diaries: The first VC</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cosgriff’s Diary:  Friday 16th May 1941 Up often for warnings – no bombs – alarm failed&#8230;so no Mass&#8230;No communion either.  Wrote to Aileen and I will post it this time.  Jerrys in Syria and Irak will probably affect our air mail.  Push on today by 2/12.  Plenty of casualties but none serious.  Two Jerry prisoners [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia&#8217;s Gallipoli Victoria Crosses</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anzac, the landing 1915 by George Lambert ART02873 For ninety four years the story of Gallipoli has galvanised Australians to remember, on ANZAC Day, those that have served, and continue to serve, in conflicts around the globe. The description by poet John Masefield in 1917 of the landing on Gallipoli creates an indelible backdrop to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trooper Mark Donaldson loans his Victoria Cross to the Australian War Memorial</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trooper Donaldson VC with the Director of the Australian War Memorial, Major General Steve GowerIn a ceremony this morning, Trooper Mark Donaldson VC loaned his newly awarded medal to the Australian War Memorial for public display.  Trooper Donaldson, who on Friday became the first Australian serviceman in almost 40 years to be awarded the famous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Victoria Cross</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Fletcher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Victoria Cross, the highest award for bravery in time of war RELAWM16499.001The Victoria Cross was instituted by Queen Victoria&#8217;s Royal warrant in 1856, and the first examples were presented by her in June 1857.  These first 62 awards were retrospective, for gallant actions by sailors and soldiers during the Crimean War of 1854-56.  Throughout its [...]]]></description>
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