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Has a woman ever received the Victoria Cross?
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Pierre and Marie Curie depicted on the obverse of a medal from the Unio Internationalis Contra Cancrum (International Union Against Cancer) commemorating the Curies' discovery of radium in 1898.
No woman has ever received the Victoria Cross. While the decoration is open to all members of the British armed forces, including women, it has not been awarded to a female recipient since its institution in 1856.1