But it was another act of gallantry much later on the Western Front that cements his reputation as one of our greatest war heroes. Jacka’s story is told in today’s new episode of the free In Black and ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Another list of honors for officers and soldiers of the British forces has been published. The ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. At the 1916 Battle of Pozieres, Albert Jacka won the Military Cross for recapturing a section of ...

Winchelsea-born Albert Jacka was Australia’s first Victoria Cross recipient. Listen to his remarkable life story in the Addy’s new True and Amazing Stories podcast series. attack and captured a ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. It’s time. Just hours before, the 14th Battalion had been told there was a stunt on tonight at ...

Albert Jacka was the first Australian to be awarded the Victoria Cross at Gallipoli in 1915. He went on to win a Military Cross and a Bar for his subsequent actions France and Belgium. "The most ...

ONE HUNDRED years ago today a brief announcement was made in the London Gazette, the government’s official journal of record. It stated that George V had awarded Lance Corporal Albert Jacka the ...

Descendants of one of World War I's most revered soldiers, Albert Jacka, are ineligible to march in Saturday's Anzac Day parade, after the RSL toughened its stance allowing only descendants wearing ...

Relatives of some of the 44 Australian soldiers missing in action in the Korean War have called for them to be honoured in the street names of Canberra's northern most suburb. The suburb of Jacka was ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. ALBERT Jacka was the face of the Sportsmen's Thousand, a major World War I Australian recruiting drive. The poster which accompanied it ...

Winchelsea-born Albert Jacka was Australia’s first Victoria Cross recipient. Listen to his remarkable life story in the Addy’s new True and Amazing Stories podcast series. in a trench on the Gallipoli ...

Robert Macklin opens his account of Albert Jacka with possibly the most famous expression of courage by an Australian soldier in World War I. On the night of May 19, 1915, Private Albert Jacka, D ...