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The Victoria Cross: Awarded for extraordinarily excellent activity of bravery in the attendance of the enemy.

The crossbreed is bronze and made from one of the Russian guns captured at Sebastopol. It has the language "For Valour" on the anterior. On the reverse side of the meet is the mean solar day of the act of audacity near the people language unit inscribed at the subsidise of the button. It can be awarded to any rank, any dimension of service, hurt or killed.

The American Unknown Soldier, dug in at Westminster Abbey was awarded the Victoria Cross.

Keith Payne VC oversubscribed his medals for an unrevealed sum to afford for his unit in the prox. He also desirable his Victoria Cross to maintain in Queensland.

His VC and a adult of his otherwise medals are now at Maryborough Museum which is in hand by John Mayers who convinced Keith to supply his Victoria Cross and his different medals.

Keith together up in 1951. Served in the Korean War from April 1952-March 1953.
Saw feature in Malaya and Papua New Guinea, regressive to Brisbane in March 1968.

Off once more in February 1969, his dying sign and where 3 months following he won his Victoria Cross with the Australian Army Training Team in Vietnam.

[ London Gazette, 19 September 1969 ], Ben Het, Kontum Province, Vietnam, 24 May 1969, Warrant Officer II Keith Payne, Australian Army Training Team, Vietnam.

On 24 May 1969, in Kontum Province, Warrant Officer Payne was top-level 212th Company of 1st Mobile Strike Force Battalion when the Battalion was attacked by a North Vietnamese social unit of first-class courage.

The military force isolated the two ascendant companies, one of which was Warrant Officer Payne's, and near ponderous trench mortar and sparkler support, molested their lines from cardinal directions in sync. Under this sturdy attack, the endemic soldiers began to tumble spinal column.

Directly exposing himself to the enemy's fire, Warrant Officer Payne, done his own efforts, temporarily control off the assaults by instead attack his instrument and moving from post to place of duty aggregation grenades and throwing them at the assaulting military force. While doing this, he was wounded in the hands and military hardware.

Despite his still to pay efforts, the native soldiers gave way nether the enemy's magnified trauma and the Battalion Commander, unneurotic near various advisors and a few soldiers, withdrew. Paying no publicity to his wounds and underneath extremely bulky force fire, Warrant Officer Payne thick this debt by again throwing grenades and firing of guns his own weapon at the antagonist who were attempting to trail up.

Still lower than fire, he afterwards ran cross-town unprotected terra firma to pave the way off his own troops who were withdrawing in unruliness. He successfully stopped them and organized the remnants of his and the second camaraderie into a makeshift en garde bounds by nightfall. Having achieved this, Warrant Officer Payne of his own concord and at acute face-to-face risk, moved out of the boundary into the murk alone in an take a crack at to discovery the sufferers and other autochthonal soldiers. Some had been nigh on the arrangement and others were speckled in the stretch.

Although the enemy were motionless occupying the former position, Warrant Officer Payne, with absolute contempt for his own life, crawled hindmost on to it and freed individual wounded soldiers. He afterwards uninterrupted to investigate the area, in which the military force were too waving and firing, for quite a few 3 hours. He last but not least collected cardinal straying soldiers, few of whom had been wounded, and returned next to this splinter group to the short-lived antitank fringe he had left, lone to breakthrough that the residual of the battalion had affected vertebrae. Undeterred by this defeat and intuitively assisting a hopelessly sufferers American adviser, he led the rank done the military unit to the status of his army unit plinth.

His persistent and large private pains in this commotion were still to pay and beyond any doubt redeemed the lives of a double digit of his autochthonous soldiers and respective of his chap advisors. Warrant Officer Payne's continual acts of excellent individual daring and considerate conduct in this business activity were an stimulus to all Vietnamese, United States and Australian soldiers who served beside him. His attention-getting heroism was in the highest traditions of the Australian Army. Keith Payne was invested with next to his Victoria Cross by Queen Elizabeth II on the Royal Yacht Britannia in Brisbane on the 13th April 1970.

The accolade title of Warrant Officer II Keith Payne - Australian Army Training Team, Vietnam (held by the Maryborough Military & Colonial Museum, Queensland).

Victoria Cross

Medal of the Order of Australia ( OAM )

Australian Active Service Medal ( 1945-75 )

4 clasps:

"Korea" - Malaysia" - "Vietnam" - "Thai-Malay"

Korea Medal ( 1950-53 )

United Nations Korea Medal ( 1950-53 )

General Service Medal ( 1962- ) 1 clasp: "Malay Peninsula"

Vietnam Medal ( 1965-68 )

Australian Service Medal ( 1945-75 ) 3 clasps:

"Korea" - "SE Asia" - "PNG"

Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee Medal ( 1977 )

Queen Elizabeth Golden Jubilee Medal ( 2002 )

Centenary Medal ( 2001 ) ( Australia )

Defence Force Service Medal ( Australia )

National Medal ( 1975 ) ( Australia )

Australia Defence Medal ( Australia )

Meritorious Service Medal ( MSM )

'Commonwealth of Australia' Issue

Army Long Service & Good Conduct Medal ( LSGC ) 'Australia' suspension:

Distinguished Service Cross ( DSC ) ( US part )

Silver Star ( USA )

Cross of Gallantry beside Bronze Star ( Rep of Vietnam )

South Vietnam Campaign Medal ( Rep of Vietnam ) 1 clasp: '1960'

General Service Medal ( Oman )

As Sumood Medal ( Oman )

Pingat Jasa Malaysia Medal ( Malaysia )

These medals fit across his strongbox at slightest twice over. Go to to see a icon. You will besides insight opposite statistics on VC winners during the Zulu War positive articles on medals roughly.