Portrait of Australia's latest Victoria Cross (VC) recipient, Warrant Officer 2 (WO2) Keith Payne ...

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Accession Number LES/69/0593/VN
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film original acetate
Maker L'Estrange, Brian Edwin
Place made Vietnam: South Vietnam, Saigon
Date made September 1969
Conflict Vietnam, 1962-1975
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Portrait of Australia's latest Victoria Cross (VC) recipient, Warrant Officer 2 (WO2) Keith Payne of Stafford Heights, QLD. WO2 Payne, An adviser with the Australian Army Training Team Vietnam (AATTV), was awarded the VC for bravery in action in Kontum Province on 24/05/1969.

Payne is wearing a green beret with the US 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) flash, he has placed the metal cap badge of the Royal Australian Regiment over the flash.