Today’s announcement that Burnie-born Corporal Cameron Stewart Baird will be posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross is a welcome tribute to an Australian hero. Corporal Baird will become the 100th Australian serviceman to be awarded the VC, the 14th Tasmanian and indeed the first Tasmanian since the end of the First World War. Many of these … Continue reading Victoria Cross a worthy tribute to Burnie-born hero