THE Badcoe Medal will again be presented following this Saturday’s ANZAC Round clash against Hawthorn at Adelaide Oval as part of ANZAC Round commemorations.

Port Adelaide presents the Peter Badcoe VC Medal each season to the player whose conduct and play during the game best demonstrates the qualities of skill, courage in adversity, self-sacrifice, team work and fair play.

The Medal is named after the late Major Peter Badcoe VC - one of Australia’s greatest war heroes whose acts of bravery and courage saw him awarded the military’s highest honour for bravery; the Victorian Cross. He died on the battlefield in April of 1967 while serving Australia in the Vietnam War.

The honourable medal was established in 2004 in conjunction with the RSL and has continued as a club tradition for over ten years, becoming a pillar of Port Adelaide’s ANZAC Round proceedings.

A total of nine players have received the honour, most recently including Port Adelaide’s own Hamish Hartlett in 2013 and captain Travis Boak in 2014.

Major Badcoe’s sister, Thelma Kelton, will present the medal to the recipient at Adelaide Oval under lights this Saturday night, following the clash with 2014 premiers Hawthorn.

Proceedings on Saturday night will commemorate this years’ ANZAC Centenary, with Power players donning special ANZAC Day Guernseys, and both sides to come together in solidarity and run through a joint banner featuring the RSL’s ANZAC badge.