The Governor General, Her Excellency the Honourable Quentin Bryce, AC, CVO has today announced that Corporal Cameron Stewart Baird, MG has been awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia posthumously.
Corporal Baird, from the 2nd Commando Regiment based at Sydney’s Holsworthy Barracks, was killed by small arms fire during an engagement with insurgents in the Khod Valley in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, 22 June 2013.
Corporal Baird was serving with a 2nd Commando Regiment element of the Australian Special Operations Task Group at the time of his death, and was the 40th Australian to be killed in action in Afghanistan,
Corporal Baird’s citation for the Victoria Cross will be announced by the Governor General at an Investiture Ceremony at Government House on Tuesday, 18 February 2014. The award will be conferred on Corporal Baird’s parents, Doug and Kaye ....
