In September 1918, during the final Allied offensive of the war - the Hundred Days Offensive - Currey was one of eight Australians awarded the Victoria Cross for their actions during the Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin [REF].
On 1 September 1918 in the attack on Péronne, France, Currey, as a 22-year-old private in the 53rd Battalion, rushed forward under heavy machine-gun fire and captured single-handed a 77-mm field gun which had been holding up the advance, killing all the crew.