What is Ben Roberts-Smith?
{{BLP unsourced|date=February 2024}} [[File:Ben Roberts-Smith January 2015 (cropped).jpg|thumb]] '''Benjamin Roberts-Smith''' is a retired [[Australia]]n soldier who won a medal called the [[Victoria Cross for Australia]] in 2011, which is the highest award that any Australian military soldier can receive. He has been described as Australia's most decorated soldier. == Defamation == Several Australian newspapers, including [[The Age]], the [[Sydney Morning Herald]] and [[The Canberra Times]], claimed that Roberts-Smith had committed different war crimes. In August 2018 Roberts-Smith sued these newspapers for defamation, saying that he didn't commit the war crimes. In June 2023, Roberts-Smith lost his law suit, as he was unable to prove that defamation had occurred. {{DEFAULTSORT:Roberts-Smith, Ben}} [[Category:1978 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Victoria Cross winners]]