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  • You could be forgiven...

    ...for thinking this is a walter but he is in fact pukka.








    It has been revealed that Warrant Officer II Keith Payne has sold his Victoria
    Cross and campaign medals to the Maryborough Military & Colonial Museum in
    Queensland for an undisclosed sum to provide for his family - Flo, his wife,
    five sons, fourteen grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. The reason for
    selling his VC to the Maryborough Museum was because Keith Payne was determined
    his Victoria Cross would stay in Queensland. "It was a hard call to make but I
    felt the time was right" and "I wanted my family to benefit from the VC while I
    still could" he said.

    It was an approach from retired businessman John
    Meyers, owner and curator of the Maryborough Museum, which convinced Keith Payne
    to sell his Victoria Cross. A former long-time member of the Army Reserve, John
    Meyers started the museum, which is a labour of love, after selling his shares
    in a sawmill and hardware business.


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    Not
    satisfied with working as a tradesman, Keith Payne joined the army in August
    1951 and was posted to the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, which he
    served with in Korea between April 1952 and March 1953. In 1955 Payne was
    promoted to corporal and returned to operational duties in February 1960 when he
    joined the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment. He servied with this
    battalion in Malaya and in 1965, now a sergeant, joined the 5th Battalion, RAR.
    February 1967 saw Payne posted to Papua New Guinea where he served with the 2nd
    Pacific Islands Regiment, returning to Brisbane in March 1968.

    On 24th
    February 1969 Keith Payne's final posting, where he was to earn his Victoria
    Cross, was to the Australian Army Training Team in Vietnam.

    His
    entitlement is (see pic below):
    Victoria Cross
    Australian Active Service
    Medal ( 1945-75 )
    4 clasps: "Korea" - Malaysia" - "Vietnam" - "Thai-Malay"

    Korea Medal ( 1950-53 )
    United Nations Korea Medal ( 1950-53 )

    General Service Medal ( 1962- )
    1 clasp: "Malay Peninsula"
    Vietnam
    Medal ( 1965-68 )
    Australian Service Medal ( 1945-75 )
    3 clasps: "Korea"
    - "SE Asia" - "PNG"
    Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee Medal ( 1977 )
    Queen
    Elizabeth Golden Jubilee Medal ( 2002 )
    Defence Force Service Medal (
    Australia )
    Meritorious Service Medal ( MSM )
    'Commonwealth of
    Australia' Issue
    Army Long Service & Good Conduct Medal ( LSGC )

    'Australia' suspension: Medal of the Order of Australia ( OAM )

    Distinguished Service Cross ( DSC ) ( US issue )
    Silver Star ( USA )

    Cross of Gallantry with Bronze Star ( Rep of Vietnam )
    South Vietnam
    Campaign Medal ( Rep of Vietnam )
    1 clasp: '1960'
    General Service Medal
    ( Oman )
    As Sumood Medal ( Oman )
    "We're surrounded on all sides... Good... you're obviously in the right place".

  • #2
    Re: You could be forgiven...

    Good effort, i'd still rather have me wings though Don.
    I have always set myself a very low standard, and constantly fail to achieve it.

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    • #3
      Re: You could be forgiven...

      Hell of a history.

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      • #4
        Re: You could be forgiven...

        Originally posted by stephenfrank View Post
        Good effort, i'd still rather have me wings though Don.
        Easier to wear/carry Steve.
        "We're surrounded on all sides... Good... you're obviously in the right place".

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        • #5
          Re: You could be forgiven...

          he is entiltled to the diamond jubilee medal ( all VC/GC holders living)are entiltled. all that work unmounting it would fit to the right of his golden jubilee andbefore the defence force service medal (australia). he would make a lot of money for his family.and could always buy copies of every one.

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          • #6
            Re: You could be forgiven...

            Surely the non-Australian medals are not worn along with medals issued by the Crown? Mind you, just the foreign ones would leave my lonely dangler envious!
            Ar Dhia, Alba is ar Banrigh!

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            • #7
              Re: You could be forgiven...

              davie. if you win a VC or any high quailty medal and other countries are Involved in the said conflict. then they tend to award figure heads ie,a lot of montys medals and winston churchills medals are from other countries they have to be given permission to wear . hence there was a medal award for the first gulf was 90/91 but 2 others were awarded (your not allowed to wear them)some blokes do ,its like you can wear golden/diamond jubilee medals (golden)these are commerative and are worn below.

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              • #8
                Re: You could be forgiven...

                For what this guy has achieved, he can wear them anyway he likes, he's got nothing to prove to anybody ! It's just a pity that it all comes down to money to help out the family, but that's life you do what you think is right at the time.
                Bob (geordie) Watts

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                • #9
                  Re: You could be forgiven...

                  "If they control your speech.....they control your life"
                  Me


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                  • #10
                    Re: You could be forgiven...

                    Keith Payne is a nice bloke to talk with. If you go to trubrits link above and click on Mark Donaldson VC and Benjamin Roberts-Smith VC you will see their citations. Both still serving and good blokes as well.
                    There is always someone watching

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