Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35306/supplement/5935. Second Lieutenant Charles Hazlitt Upham (8077), 20th Battalion, 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force (The Canterbury Regiment). Between 22nd and 30th May 1941 in Crete, Second Lieutenant Upham displayed outstanding leadership and courage in the very close-quarter fighting. He was blown up by one mortar shell and badly wounded by another. He was also wounded in the foot, but in spite of his wounds and a severe attack of dysentery, he refused to go to hospital. He carried a wounded man back to safety when his company was forced to retire on 22nd May and on 30th May he beat off an attack at Sphakia, 22 Germans falling to his short-range fire. BAR TO VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37283/supplement/4779. Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham V.C., (8077), 20th Battalion, 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force (The Canterbury Regiment). On 14th/15th July 1942 at El Ruweisat Ridge, Western Desert, Captain Upham, in spite of being twice wounded, insisted on remaining with his men. Just before dawn he led his company in a determined attack, capturing the objective after fierce fighting; he himself destroyed a German tank and several guns and vehicles with hand grenades. Although his arm had been broken by a machine-gun bullet, he continued to dominate the situation and when at last, weak from loss of blood, he had his wounds dressed, he immediately returned to his men, remaining with them until he was again severely wounded and unable to move. MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37787/supplement/5607.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35306/supplement/5935. Second Lieutenant Charles Hazlitt Upham (8077), 20th Battalion, 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force (The Canterbury Regiment). Between 22nd and 30th May 1941 in Crete, Second Lieutenant Upham displayed outstanding leadership and courage in the very close-quarter fighting. He was blown up by one mortar shell and badly wounded by another. He was also wounded in the foot, but in spite of his wounds and a severe attack of dysentery, he refused to go to hospital. He carried a wounded man back to safety when his company was forced to retire on 22nd May and on 30th May he beat off an attack at Sphakia, 22 Germans falling to his short-range fire. BAR TO VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37283/supplement/4779. Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham V.C., (8077), 20th Battalion, 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force (The Canterbury Regiment). On 14th/15th July 1942 at El Ruweisat Ridge, Western Desert, Captain Upham, in spite of being twice wounded, insisted on remaining with his men. Just before dawn he led his company in a determined attack, capturing the objective after fierce fighting; he himself destroyed a German tank and several guns and vehicles with hand grenades. Although his arm had been broken by a machine-gun bullet, he continued to dominate the situation and when at last, weak from loss of blood, he had his wounds dressed, he immediately returned to his men, remaining with them until he was again severely wounded and unable to move. MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37787/supplement/5607.