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George Cross Coin

The George Cross was instituted by King George VI during the Second World War as the second highest award for gallantry after the Victoria Cross. It recognises courageous acts by civilians and by service personnel not in the face of the enemy or where usual military honours would not apply. It was awarded 22 times to Australians between 1940 and 1992, when Australia moved from the Imperial honours system to its own.

Chief Petty Officer Jonathan Rogers was a distinguished veteran of the Second World War and Korea – but it was his extreme courage in a peacetime naval disaster that saw him posthumously awarded the George Cross. Welsh-born Rogers was the coxswain aboard HMAS Voyager when it was cut in half in a collision with aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne off Jervis Bay on 10 February 1964 – a horror that killed 82 men. Survivors told how Rogers, stuck with scores of others in the forward section of the sinking destroyer, took charge of the situation by attempting to control flooding, calming terrified shipmates and helping some to safety through a tiny escape hatch. Realising he and many others would not get out, Rogers led his trapped comrades in prayer and hymns as the vessel went under.