#Trump is starting to look like a modern version of #IdiAmin.

Next he’ll want a #VictoriaCross.

#DementedDon #USPol #auspol #StolenHonor? as in the fantasists who wear medals they never earned. #StolenValor #StolenValour #StolenHonour #TrumpRegime

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ Edgar Towner ✧

Edgar Towner (19 April 1890 – 18 August 1972) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, awarded for his actions during an attack on Mont Saint-Quentin during World War I. Born in Queensland, Towner enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in 1915. He served in Egypt with the 25th Battalion unt...

#AustralianImperialForce #VictoriaCross #MontSaint-Quentin #MilitaryCross #Queensland #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Towner

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ Donald Forrester Brown ✧

Donald Forrester Brown (23 February 1890 – 1 October 1916) was a New Zealand recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for valour in the face of the enemy that could be awarded at that time to members of the British and Commonwealth armed forces. Born in Dunedin, Brown was a farmer when th...

#VictoriaCross #OtagoInfantryRegiment #WorldWar #Commonwealth #Western #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Forrester_Brown

A fallen petal on the Gorbals Rose Garden War Memorial commemorating Private James Stokes who was born in Hutchesontown in Glasgow and died in Kervenheim in Germany in 1945 while serving with the King's Shropshire Light Infantry. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery in single-handedly storming a number of enemy positions.

#glasgow #warmemorial #victoriacross #gorbals #hutchesontown

Better late than never, I suppose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibatjxPkhJk

#Australia #VictoriaCross #LetWeForget

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ Bill Newton ✧

Bill Newton (8 June 1919 – 29 March 1943) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, honoured for his actions as a bomber pilot in Papua New Guinea during March 1943. Raised in Melbourne, he joined the Citizen Military Forces in 1938 and enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in February 1940...

#CitizenMilitaryForces #PapuaNewGuinea #VictoriaCross #SouthWestPacific #Newton #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Newton

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

✧ Haane Manahi ✧

Haane Manahi (1913–1986) was a New Zealand Māori soldier who served in the Second World War with the Māori Battalion. He joined the battalion in 1939 and fought in the German invasion of Greece, the Battle of Crete and the North African campaign. In April 1943, during the Tunisian campaign, his gallantry in an ac...

#MāoriBattalion #VictoriaCross #DistinguishedConductMedal #Takrouna #Greece #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haane_Manahi