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VC

1. vital capacity.

2. acuity of color vision.

VC

Abbreviation for colored vision; vital capacity.

VC

vital capacity.

VC

abbreviation for vital capacity.

VC

Abbreviation for:
valid completer
variable coefficient
variable cost
varicocoele
vena cava
ventilatory capacity
ventricular contraction
vinyl chloride
visual cortex
vital capacity
vitamin C
vocal cord
voluntary controlled

VC

Abbreviation for:

1. Vascular catheterization.

2. Vasoconstrictor.

3. Vena cava 6. Venous capacitance 7. Ventilatory capacity 8. Ventricular complex 9. Ventricular coupling 10. Vital capacity 11. Vocal cord.

VC

Abbreviation for vital capacity; colored vision.

Vital capacity (VC)

The largest amount of air expelled after one's deepest inhalation.

Mentioned in: Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease

VC

vital capacity

VC,

n See vital capacity.

VC

Abbreviation for vital capacity.

VC

vital capacity.

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Touring exhibition tribute to 'forgotten' battalion

8220;The Victoria Cross still remains the apogee for the medal collector, military history enthusiast and increasingly, the investor in search of rare, tangible assets as a store of wealth.

Stanley Gibbons Adds to Its Treasures with the First VC Issued to a British Soldier

The Imperial Victoria Cross has been awarded to 96 Australians.

Trooper awarded VC

Later, a few of the ingots were used to produce the first four Victoria Cross medals via the investment casting process.

Cross guard

No less an authority than the official historian Charles Beans writing in the January 1932 memorial issue of Reveille, the Victoria RSL journal, suggested that Jacka should have been awarded three Victoria Crosses instead of the Victoria Cross and two Military Crosses he received.

Robert Macklin. Jacka VC: Australian Hero

I have been contacted by representatives of the Knox family as they did not receive a reply to their request for a memorial in honour of our town's only winner of the highest honour, the Victoria Cross," Cllr Wilson explained.

VC hero honoured with special memorial in park

To mark the 100 years since his second Victoria Cross (Bar), a commemorative paving stone is being unveiled at Abercromby Square Gardens at 11am.

A day to honour hero Chavasse; CITY EVENTS CELEBRATE SOLDIER AWARDED TWO VC MEDALS

Barratt's divisional commander stated: "I know of no award of the Victoria Cross more richly merited.

No OTHERVC was more deserved

I have directed the State Heritage Office to begin the process for heritage listing all Victoria Cross recipients' graves immediately, as the process is lengthy and multi-faceted.

Australia : Victoria Cross war graves to be heritage listed

1944: Guy Gibson, British pilot and Victoria Cross winner for his "Dambusters" action against the Mohne and Eder dams, was killed when his aircraft crashed in Holland on its way back to base.

HAPPENED ON THIS DAY

George Maling, from the pottery family, received the Victoria Cross for his actions 100 years ago during the Battle of Loos.

Weekend of events to mark the centenary of hero's valour

They have spent hours working on the graves of Victoria Cross holders Harry Coverdale and Ernest Sykes.