# Roll of valour: 9 VCs **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 4, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roll-of-valour-9-vcs/703639 "2014-11-04T16:40:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roll-of-valour-9-vcs/703639/1 "2014-11-04T16:40:51Z")
The Telegraph has an [article](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11195513/Meet-the-nine-living-recipients-of-the-Victoria-Cross.html) on the nine living recipients of the Victoria Cross. Brave men all. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roll-of-valour-9-vcs/703639/2 "2014-11-04T21:43:36Z")
Interestingly, the New Zealand and Australian winners are the first 1 and 4 respectively to wear their particular variants of the VC, since most Commonwealth states now have their own VCs to award separate from the British one. ---
**Author:** ![Damfino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roll-of-valour-9-vcs/703639/3 "2014-11-04T21:56:08Z")
Anyone who earns the VC has my automatic respect , I’d have expected a few more Second World War survivors though ---
**Author:** ![Damfino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roll-of-valour-9-vcs/703639/4 "2014-11-04T22:03:08Z")
On checking Wikipedia two of these died last year ,