Australian Army Major General and Politician, 2nd Boer War Victoria Cross Recipient. He was gazetted for the award on June 4, 1901 for his actions as a captain in the New South Wales Army Medical Corps, Australian Forces, on July 24, 1900 at Vredefort, South Africa during the 2nd Boer War. He was the first member of the Australian Military Forces to receive the Victoria Cross. He received his early education at Freelands School in Tuanton, Somerset, England and studied medicine at London Hospital. He then emigrated to New South Wales, Australia due to health issues and established a medical practice, first in Newcastle, then in Taree. He returned to England to complete his postgraduate work and then came back to New South Wales in 1899, settling in Orange. After serving in the 2nd Boer War, he returned to Orange but was son sent back to South Africa as a major in the Australian Army Medical Corps, serving until November 1902 and returned to his home where he was elected Mayor of Orange. After World War I broke out in July 1914, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel and served as the principal medical officer to the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force to German New Guinea. He then became the Assistant Director of Medical Services of the 1st Australian Division and was sent to the Middle East, and participated in the early stages of the Gallipoli Campaign (April 1915). In September 1915 he commanded the Australia and New Zealand Army Corps medical services and two months later became director of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF). The following year, after the AIF relocated to the Western Front in Europe, he served in London, England where he was in charge of all medical services in France, Egypt, and Palestine. In early 1917 he was promoted to the rank of Major General. In 1922 he resigned from the Australian Army and in December of that year he was elected as a member of the Nationalist Party to the Australian Parliament from the electoral Division of Calare, serving until 1929. During his time in Parliament, he served on the ministerial portfolios of Defence, Health, and Home and Territories and Repatriation Minister. In February 1930 he travelled to England for cancer treatment and died there seven months later at the age of 66, and was interred in Kensal Green Cemetery in London, England. His Victoria Cross citation reads: "The King has been graciously pleased to signify His intention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on the undermentioned Officers, Non-Commissioned Officer, and Soldier, for their conspicuous bravery in South Africa, as stated against their names: New South Wales Medical Staff Corps, Captain N. R. House [sic]. During the action at Vredefort on the 24 July 1900, Captain House went out under a heavy cross fire and picked up a wounded man, and carried him to a place of shelter." In addition to the Victoria Cross, his other military honors and awards include the Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, the Companion of the Order of the Bath, the Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George, the Knight of Grace of the Order of St John, the Queen's South Africa Medal (with 6 campaign clasps), the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal, and the Victory Medal (with oak leaf, for Mentioned in Despatches). His Victoria Cross and other medals are on display at the Australian War Museum in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. A statue of his act of bravery resides at Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Melbourne, Australia. In 2000 he was commemorated on a Australian postage stamp and a one dollar coin issued by the Australian Mint. A cenotaph in his honor is located at the New South Wales Garden of Remembrance in Auburn City, Australia.