AustLit

'On the battlefields of the First World War, Albert Borella suffered chronic dysentery, toothache and was seriously wounded a number of times. He would see training in Egypt and extensive military action in Gallipoli and on the Western Front. In 1918 he was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military honour in the British Empire, for 'most conspicuous bravery in attack'. When the Northern Territory honours its Anzacs the name of Albert Chalmers-Borella is remembered with great pride as the 'only Northern Territorian to have received the Victoria  Cross'.'  (Publication abstract)