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BORN 10 January 1893
DIED 17 January 1932 AGE 39
VC Won 19-20 May 1915 AGE 22
Place VC Won Courtney's Post, Anzac sector, Gallipoli, Turkey
War/Campaign First World War 1915
Name Albert Jacka No. 435
VC Issue No. 620 Awards VC MC & Bar
Regiment Regiment 14th (Victoria) Battalion, AIF
Later
Now Disbanded
Rank VC Won Lance-Corporal
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Layard, Winchelsea District, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Place Of Death Caulfield Repatriation Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Buried/Location Ashes St Kilda Cemetery, Dandenong Road, St Kilda East, Victoria, Australia
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 19 January 1932
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Presbyterian Section
Gazetted 24 July 1915
VC Presented 29 September 1916 by King George V at Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England
Memorials
Headstone, St Kilda Cemetery, Dandenong Road, St Kilda East, Victoria, Australia
P Memorial Plaque, Victorian Garden of Remembrance, Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Display, Hall of Valour, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT, Australia
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Victoria Cross Memorial, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Jacka, ACT, Australia
Jacka Boulevard, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia
Jacka Street, Macleod, Victoria, Australia
Jacka Crescent, Campbell, ACT, Australia
By The Way…
He was the first Australian to be awarded the VC during the First World War
VC Held By
Australian War Memorial, Hall of Valour, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
