Peter Badcoe won the Victoria Cross in Vietnam.

In yesterday’s match between Port Adelaide and the Sydney Swans, the Swans’ Josh Kennedy won the Peter Badcoe VC Medal.

Since 2004 Port Adelaide has presented the Peter Badcoe VC Medal as part of ANZAC month.

Major Peter Badcoe VC served in the Vietnam War and is the last South Australian to be awarded the Victoria Cross – the military’s highest honour for bravery.

Major Peter Badcoe was one of Australia’s greatest war heroes, a highly-decorated soldier whose acts of bravery and courage saw him awarded the medal for three separate acts during the Vietnam conflict.

Major Badcoe died on a battlefield in Vietnam on April 7, 1967 – his last action on that day seeing him single-handedly try to stop a Viet Cong machine gunner from firing on allied South Vietnamese troops.

For further information, see the Port Adelaide website.