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VC1347 Rayene Stewart Simpson
Name Rayene Stewart Simpson No.
VC Issue No. 1347 Awards VC DCM
Regiment Australian Army Training Team, Vietnam
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Warrant Officer Class II
Rank End Of Career Warrant Officer Class II
Place Of Birth Chippenden, New South Wales, Australia
Place Of Death Tokyo, Japan
Buried/Location Ashes Yokohama War Cemetery, Japan & Australia
Cremated Tokyo, Japan
Date Buried/Cremated 20 October 1978
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 29 August 1969
VC Presented 1 May 1970 by Queen Elizabeth II at Government House, Canberra, Australia
BORN 26 February 1926
DIED 18 October 1978 AGE 52
VC Won 6 & 11 May 1969 AGE 43
Place VC Won Ben Het, Kontum Province, South Vietnam
War/Campaign Vietnam War
Memorials
Headstone, Yokohama War Cemetery, Japan & Australia
Portrait at Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Named on Honours Board, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, Surrey
Display, Carlingford Public School, Rickard Street, Carlingford, NSW, Australia
P Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Ray Simpson VC Memorial Park, Remembrance Nature Park, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Simpson Street, Canberra, ACT, Australia
By The Way…
Australia's most decorated post-war soldier, he received medals for every war or campaign in which Australia had participated since the Second World War
VC Held By
Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
