Henry Dalziel

Henry Dalziel VC was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, who served with the Australian Imperial Force during the First World War. Dalziels VC was the 1,000th awarded. After the war, Dalziel returned to Australia and tried to make a living by farming. Troubled by the injuries he sustained during the war, he left the land and took up factory work. He moved between jobs several times during the 1930s, and led something of a transient lifestyle, even at one stage turning to gold prospecting. In the mid1930s he rejoined the Army in a parttime capacity and during the Second World War served in a training role in Australia. He died in 1965 at the age of 72.

Henry Dalziel, the son of a Queensland miner, was born onFebruary 1893 in Irvinebank. After completing his education he began working as a fireman on the railway.

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