Family
Roberts-Smith and his wife Sue have two sons; Sam (born 1985), currently a member of the Moffatt Oxenbould Young Artist Program with Opera Australia, graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts with both a Bachelor of Music and GradDip Opera. In 2009 Sam won the prestigious Australian Singing Competition; and Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith (born 1978) who became Australia's most highly decorated current serving soldier having already been awarded the Medal for Gallantry was awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia by Her Excellency, the Governor General of Australia, Quentin Bryce on 23 January 2011 for most conspicuous gallantry in action in circumstances of extreme peril on 11 June 2010, during the Shah Wali Kot Offensive in Afghanistan.
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