 Complete the following phrase:  The various forms of the Victoria Cross are inherently valuable, as was highlighted on 24 July 2006, when at the auctionhouse Bonhams in Sydney, the VC which had been awarded to First World War soldier Captain Alfred Shout, fetched a world-record hammer price of 1 million. Shout had been awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously in 1915 for hand-to-hand combat at the 