High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Victoria Cross (post-nominal letters "VC") is the highest war honour of the British Empire and the Commonwealth of Nations and is a military award for extraordinary valour and devotion to duty while facing a hostile force. In Canada, it can be awarded to members of the Canadian Forces of any rank in any service, and to allies serving under or with Canadian military command; it is the highest honour in the Canadian honours system, placed before all other orders, decorations and medals, including the Order of Canada, in the Order of Precedence. As of 1993, Canadians were no longer eligible for the British Victoria Cross, for the medal was replaced with a new Canadian Victoria Cross. It has yet to be awarded. In appearance, the new one is identical to the British medal, but the words are in Latin instead of English; by using a language that is an ancestor of both English and French, the medal avoids linguistic discrimination between...

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