Starting 3rd from left: Victoria Cross holders Corporal Johnson Beharry, Corporal Benjamin Roberts-Smith, Warrant Officer Class 2 Keith Payne, Sergeant William Speakman and Captain Rambahadur Limbu at the Royal Artillery Museum in Woolwich
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