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...Victoria Cross group. The total price including buyer's premium and GST on the buyer's premium paid by media owner Kerry Stokes was $1,214,500. Of the nine Victoria Cross awards to Australians at Gallipoli, Shout's was the only one not held at the Australian War Memorial and Kerry Stokes bought the medal so that it could be displayed with the other eight medals. Shout was awarded one of seven Victoria Crosses for Lone Pine already having been awarded the Military Cross for gallantry two days after the landing at Anzac Cove. He was also mentioned in despatches and was the mostly highly decorated Australian soldier for Gallipoli. Shout was born in Wellington, New Zealand, on 7 August 1881, and moved to Sydney in 1905. He died from wounds aboard a hospital ship on 11 August 1915 and was...
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