Victoria Cross
World War II Pacific and Korean War
(*) indicates posthumous

The Victoria Cross (VC) was instituted in 1856 as the highest decoration for valour to be awarded to British and Commonwealth military.  In total, 1.355 VCs have been awarded for actions from the Crimean War (1854) until the most recent war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The first Victoria Cross to be awarded for actions during the war against Japan was to S/Ldr A. S. K. Scarf of the Royal Air Force (RAF) for actions in Malaya on December 9, 1941. The last was awarded to T/Lt R. H. Gray of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) for his part in attacking a Japanese destroyer off Honshu, Japan on August 9, 1945.

Borneo Pte John Bernard Mackey, Australian Army Pte Leslie Thomas Starcevich, Australian Army Hong Kong Sgt Maj John Robert Osborn, Canadian Army Japan T/Lt Robert Hampton Gray, RCN Malaya Lt Col Charles Groves Wright Anderson, Australian Army Lt Col Arthur Edward Cumming, Indian Army S/Ldr Arthur Stewart King Scarf, RAF T/Lt Thomas Wilkinson, RN New Guinea Lt Albert Chowne, Australian Army Sgt Thomas Currie Derrick, Australian Army Cpl John Alexander French, Australian Army Pte Richard Kelliher, Australian Army Pte Edward Kenna, Australian Army Pte Bruce Steel Kingsbury, Australian Army F/Lt William Ellis Newton, RAAF Singapore Lt Ian Edward Fraser, RN A/Ldg Smn James Joseph Magennis, RN Solomon Islands (Bougainville) Pte Frank John Partridge, Australian Army Cpl Reginald Roy Rattey, Australian Army Cpl Sefanaia Sukanaivalu, Fijian Army Korean War Kenneth Muir James Carne Philip Curtis Bill Speakman

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