Port Adelaide will continue its tradition of presenting the Peter Badcoe VC Medal as part of Anzac month at this Saturday's game against Sydney.
Major Peter Badcoe VC served in the Vietnam War and is the last South Australian to be awarded the Victoria Cross - the military’s highest honour for bravery.
The medal will be awarded to the player whose conduct and play during the game best demonstrates the qualities of skill, courage in adversity, self sacrifice, teamwork and fair play.
Major Peter Badcoe was one of Australia's greatest war heroes, a highly-decorated soldier whose acts of bravery and courage saw him awarded the medal for three separate acts during the Vietnam conflict.
Major Badcoe died on a battlefield in Vietnam on April 7, 1967 - his last action on that day seeing him single-handedly try to stop a Vietcong machine gunner from firing on allied South Vietnamese troops.
This weekend's will be presented by Peter Badcoe’s nephew, John Kelton.
Past Winners:
2004: Josh Carr (Port Adelaide)
2005: Warren Tredrea (Port Adelaide)
2006: Brendon Lade (Port Adelaide)
2007: Chad Cornes (Port Adelaide)
2008: Kane Cornes (Port Adelaide)
2009: Lenny Hayes (St. Kilda)
2010: David Rodan (Port Adelaide)
2011: Michael Rischitelli (Gold Coast Suns)
