The last Victoria Cross awarded to an Australian in World War I, has been sold for $468,000 at Sotheby’s in Melbourne. Lieutenant George Ingram’s Victoria Cross will now be given to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.

Lieutenant Ingram, won his VC on October 5, 1918, at Montbrehain, on the Western Front in France, in what was the last battle Australian troops fought in the war, he survived and returned to Australia, where he died in 1961.

Posted: 05|27|08 at 4:08 pm. Filed under: Australia.