Program for Victoria Cross recipients

This program, brought back from London by John Hamilton VC, is for a reception given by the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Cuthbert Ackroyd, on 27 June 1956, for Victoria Cross recipients. Ackroyd’s signature can be seen above the VC emblem.

From throughout the British Empire and Dominions, men who had been awarded the VC gathered in London in 1956 for the centenary celebrations of the first granting of the medal by Queen Victoria in 1856.A party of 37 Australian VCs travelled to England for the event, among them two Gallipoli VCs – John Hamilton and William Dunstan – both of whom had received their awards for their bravery at the Battle of Lone Pine, 6-9 August 1915.

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