Ernest (Smoky) Smith

This is a great story.  As a nation, we are going to honour the last surviving recipient of the Victoria cross, who passed away this week.  I'm proud to see that we still remember, and still honour, brave men like this.

 

Smith earned the Commonwealth's highest award for valour for his actions in Italy during the Second World War, when he singlehandedly fought off German tanks and dozens of troops on a road beside the Savio River.