An auction house says the nieces of a man who was killed after destroying three Japanese machine gun posts in 1942 decided to sell his medal because there was a lot of responsibility in safeguarding it.
John French was posthumously awarded a VC for his actions at the Battle of Milne Bay.abc.net.au/news/john-french-victoria-cross-up-for-auction-sydney/102621138Australia's highest military honour posthumously awarded to a World War II soldier is set to be auctioned in Sydney.
Mr Noble said the family had decided to sell the medal because there was a lot of responsibility in safeguarding the VC. Mr Noble said the last Australian VC sold in 2016 for $600,000 and very few remained in the possession of the original families to whom they were given.The medal is of a great significance at Crows Nest, a small hamlet in southern Queensland about 160 kilometres west of Brisbane.
UNSW historian Peter Stanley said the status of the Victoria Cross had grown in recent years due to attention from the Australian War Memorial as well as the recent medals awarded to soldiers during the conflict in Afghanistan."There is a mystique about the Victoria Cross … partly because of rarity, but also because of the person who gained them … the stories attached to them," Professor Stanley he said.
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