Percy Storkey

Percy Valentine Storkey VC was a New Zealandborn 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.

Storkey was born in Napier, New Zealand, to an Englishborn printer and his wife. His father Samuel Storkey migrated to Napier as a young boy with his father William Storkey. He was educated at Napier Boys High School where he was dux of the school in his final year and later Victoria College in Wellington. As a teenager, he served in the Territorial Force. He moved to Sydney in Australia in 1911, and worked in administration roles. In 1913, he enrolled in law school at the University of Sydney. His legal studies were disrupted by the First World War.

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