The following 26 Victorian men were honoured for their outstanding valour on the battlefields of World War One and were recipients of the Victoria Cross, the British Empire’s highest award for bravery in wartime. Australia’s highest award since 1991 is the ‘Victoria Cross for Australia’, named in honour of the British Victoria Cross, and has been awarded to four Australians for their service in Afghanistan.

 Victoria’s World War One Legacy – Recipients of the Victoria Cross

• Robert Matthew Beatham
• Frederick Birks
• Albert Borella
• Maurice Vincent Buckley
• Alexander Stewart Burton
• Percy Herbert Cherry
• Thomas Cooke
• William Thomas Dartnell
• William Dunstan
• Robert Cuthbert Grieve
• George Mawby Ingram
• Albert Jacka
• William Donovan Joynt
• Albert David Lowerson
• Robert Mactier
• Frank Hubert McNamara
• Rupert Vance Moon
• George Raymond Dallas Moor
• James Ernest Newland
• Samuel George Pearse
• Walter Peeler
• William Ruthven
• Clifford William King Sadlier
• Issy Smith
• William John Symons
• Frederick Harold Tubb