Sir Hubert Wilkins - Australian Pioneer Polar Explorer, Cinematographer, Aviator, and Humanitarian Environmentalist (Oct 99

	LOCATION: Australian War Memorial Canberra
Wilkins is the only Australian official photographer, in any war, to receive a combat decoration. Wilkins received his first Military Cross in October 1917 for his work as a photographer under heavy fire. A year later he received a bar to his Military Cross. In part, the citation for his second decoration reads: "Under machine gun fire at close range he worked forward into the trenches held by the Americans ... and on reaching the position organised the Americans, who had lost their officers, and directed operations until the German attack was checked and the supporting troops were arriving".