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Percy Valentine Storkey VC Rear Admiral The Hon. Justice M.J. Slattery RANR Sydney Law School, which occupied the former Wigram Chambers in Phillip St in 1914. Photo taken in 1968 ( University of Sydney Archives) Colonel Henry Normand

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Percy Valentine Storkey VC

Rear Admiral The Hon. Justice M.J. Slattery RANR

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Sydney Law School, which

ccupied the former

Wigram Chambers in Phillip St in 1914.

Photo taken in 1968 (University of Sydney Archives)

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Colonel Henry Normand MacLaurin

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Percy Storkey Attestation Paper of Persons Enlisted for Service Abroad

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The Victoria Cross

The highest award of military honour
Instituted by Queen Victoria’s Royal Warrant on 29 January 1856
Awarded ‘for valour’
100 Australians have received the award:

– 6 in the Boer War from 1899 to 1902 – 64 in World War I – 2 in North Russia in 1919 – 20 in World War II – 4 in Vietnam in 1962 to 1972 – 4 in Afghanistan in 2001 to 2013.

Crafted from bronze taken from cannons captured from the Russians in the Crimean War.

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1918

The Women’s Legal Status Act 1918 (NSW) passed 7 January – Mississippi ratified the 18th amendment 27 January – ‘Tarzan of the Apes’ premiered on Broadway 6 February – women over 30 years in Great Britain given the vote 4 March – first case of Spanish flu recorded 11 March – the capital of Russia moved from St Petersburg to Moscow

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The Kiss Gustav Klimt (1907 -1908)

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Australian Army Guard of Honour (University Regiment) for the Yorks at Sydney University

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