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By Robert Macklin
The Victoria move is the top award for valor that may be received by way of an Australian; simply ninety six Australians were offered the VC in conflicts from the Boer warfare to the Vietnam battle. And purely 14 Australians were provided the George pass, the final word medal for heroism clear of energetic strive against, when you consider that its inception in 1940. yet what's it that makes those outstanding squaddies possibility every little thing in safeguard in their nation and their pals? famous biographer Robert Macklin tells the inspirational tale of 15 Australian recipients of the Victoria and George Crosses, from Neville Howse in South Africa in 1900 to the heroes of the good struggle reminiscent of Albert Jacka, "Diver" Derrick in international struggle II, and Keith Payne in Vietnam in 1969.
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3 As it happened, they chose two Chinese artillery pieces captured in the Second Opium War. 46 Bravest PAGES 31/1/08 12:33 PM Page 47 ‘I managed to get the buggers, Sir’ In 1856, Chinese government officials had boarded the Arrow, a Chinese-owned ship registered in Hong Kong that was suspected of piracy and smuggling. Twelve Chinese sailors were arrested and imprisoned. British officials in Guangzhou demanded their release, claiming that because the ship had recently been British-registered, it was protected under the Treaty of Nanking.
But when the 51 Bravest PAGES 31/1/08 12:33 PM Page 52 BRAVEST attack began, the tanks were worse than useless. The battalion sustained fearful casualties on the German wire entanglements that would have been broken up by an artillery barrage. It did drive the enemy back, but when it called for the big guns to forestall a counterattack, the plea went unanswered. The artillery commanders had confused Germans with their own soldiers and refused to fire. The result was another tragedy. In a report on the tank fiasco, an angry Jacka accused the tank crew of incompetence bordering on cowardice and strongly implied that the High Command was guilty of dereliction of duty.
At last they truly were ‘Jacka’s Mob’. m. All talk ceased and then, with a stupendous roar, the artillery barrage fell upon no man’s land, a gigantic thunderstorm of bursting steel hurled from a thousand guns. Jacka rose from a shell hole and waved the men forward through the slippery mud and water-filled craters towards their first objective, the ‘blue line’, about 300 m ahead. His way was relatively clear, but he quickly saw that to his left fire from German pillboxes was taking a toll on the 16th Battalion.