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    Albert Jacka, VC, MC & Bar (10 January 1893 – 17 January 1932) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry...
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  • Jacka may refer to: Jacka, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra, Australia The Jacka (1977–2015), American rapper Albert Jacka (1893–1932)...
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    most famous sons, World War One Victoria Cross recipients Albert Borella and Albert Jacka. In 2015, Wedderburn won the right to host The Race that Slows...
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    had some residents at the beginning of 2014. The suburb is named after Albert Jacka, the first Australian to be decorated with the Victoria Cross during...
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    Victoria Darcy Parish (1997- ) AFL Footballer with the Essendon Bombers Albert Jacka VC, MC & Bar (1893 – 1932) Captain 14th Battalion AIF. First Australian...
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    (1898–1966), American architect Albert Jacka (1893–1932), Australian Imperial Force Captain, Victoria Cross recipient Albert G. Jackes (1844–1888), Canadian...
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  • the second Prime Minister of Australia, five Premiers of Victoria, and Albert Jacka VC, MC, barrister and Mayor of St Kilda (1930). David Andrade, anarchist...
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    O'Meara (right) meeting fellow VC recipient, Lt. Albert Jacka, following the fighting at Pozières...
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    Bridges Crescent, named after William Bridges, and Captain Jacka Crescent, named after Albert Jacka. Burke Crescent and Wills Crescent were named after the...
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    First World War 10th Battalion Polygon Wood, Belgium Adelaide Town Hall Albert Jacka 1915 First World War 14th Battalion Gallipoli, Turkey AWM William Jackson...
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  • Newcastle Steelworks opens in Newcastle, New South Wales. 19 July – Albert Jacka becomes the first Australian to win the Victoria Cross during World War...
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  • Melchior Wańkowicz, Polish soldier, journalist, and author (d. 1974) 1893 – Albert Jacka, Australian captain, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1932) 1894 – Pingali...
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    Australians at Gallipoli: Alexander Burton, William Dunstan, John Hamilton, Albert Jacka, Leonard Keysor, Alfred Shout, William Symons, Hugo Throssell and Frederick...
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  • November – James Hardy, businessman and yachtsman (d. 2023) 17 January – Albert Jacka, businessman, soldier and Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1893) 6 February...
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  • Russia (b. 1864) 1932 – Ahmet Derviş, Turkish general (b. 1881) 1932 – Albert Jacka, Australian captain, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1893) 1933 – Louis...
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    but moved in 1885) William Deane - 22nd Governor General of Australia Albert Jacka VC - 1st AIF Army officer and former Mayor of St Kilda Sportspeople Ron...
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    David Brian Jacka OAM (born 14 July 1968) is an aviator and disability advocate. On 5 June 2013, Jacka became the first person with quadriplegia to fly...
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    the Australians, the crisis had arrived. At this moment, Lieutenant Albert Jacka, who had won the Victoria Cross at Gallipoli, emerged from a dugout where...
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    02828th Punjab Regiment Waziristan Campaign 1921-04-1010 April 1921 Albert Jacka NOR-3.2Lance Corporal 01414th Battalion, AIF First World War 1915-05-1919–20...
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    place of Alfred Deakin, the second Prime Minister of Australia, and Albert Jacka VC, MC, barrister and Mayor of St Kilda (1930). In 2004 the City of Port...
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  • captured enemy trench in France. Australian Imperial Force Lance Corporal Albert Jacka single-handedly recaptured a trench during the Battle of Gallipoli. Royal...
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    Albert Jacka's MC and bar...
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    made about renaming the station, including naming the station after Albert Jacka, Australia's first recipient of the Victoria Cross, who was mayor of...
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  • eight members of the brigade received the Victoria Cross. These were: Albert Jacka, Martin O'Meara, John Dwyer, Harry Murray, Henry Dalziel, Thomas Axford...
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    held in reserve in Monash Valley. One member of the 14th Battalion, Albert Jacka, received the Victoria Cross for his actions during the fighting on 19...
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  • Melbourne Cup Victoria wins the inaugural Sheffield Shield 10 January – Albert Jacka (died 1932), recipient of the Victoria Cross 11 January – Charles "Chook"...
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    took part in the landing and subsequent campaign at Gallipoli, where Albert Jacka, then a lance-corporal, earned the Victoria Cross for bravery during...
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    Schipperheyn. It lists Victoria Cross recipients from St Kilda including Albert Jacka on the right side and the titles of conflicts with numbers of St Kilda...
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    there they encountered Lance Corporal Albert Jacka and others, who drove them out again. For his action, Jacka became the first Australian to win the...
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  • Lieutenant Colonel Sidney Godolphin, soldier and Member of Parliament Captain Albert Jacka VC, MC and Bar, the first Australian to win the VC at Gallipoli (his...
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