For Valour (play)

For Valour is a 1960 Australian stage play by Ric Throssell.

The play was based on the life of Throssell's father Hugo Throssell, who had won the Victoria Cross and later committed suicide.

The play debuted in Canberra in 1960 in a production sponsored by the Elizabethan Theatre Trust. Leslie Rees later wrote: "Such a play could hardly have hoped for wide use by theatres because of its remote scene and time, and down-beat moods of pessimism. But because of its alert, skilled dialogue, its sure sense of scene movement, its quick but accurate limning of characters (perhaps too many?) and even more so because of the degree of underlying compassion, For Valour must continue to earn the high respect of true students of Australian theatre—and life." Th play was published in 1976 by Currency Press.

Premise
In a small Victorian country town, a war hero struggles to adjust to peace time. He winds up committing suicide.