Refused to be Beaten

Since the end of the Second World War, the VC has been awarded 15 times: four in the Korean War, one in the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation in 1965, four to Australians in the Vietnam War, two during the Falklands War in 1982, one in the Iraq War in 2004

AFGHANISTAN


On 16 March 2013, the Ministry of Defence announced the posthumous award of the Victoria Cross to Lance Corporal James Ashworth.It was then only the second Victoria Cross awarded for service in Afghanistan.Aged 23, Lance Corporal James Ashworth, 1st...

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