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VC1183    Charles Hazlitt Upham

Name   Charles Hazlitt Upham   No.      

VC Issue No.   1183   Awards   VC   & Bar

Regiment   2nd  New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 20th Battalion, Canterbury Regiment, C Company

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won    Sergeant

Rank End Of Career   Captain

Place Of Birth   Gloucester Street, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand

Place Of Death   Retirement home, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand

Buried/Location Ashes   St Paul's Churchyard, Papanui, New Zealand

Cremated   Harewood Crematorium, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand

Date Buried/Cremated   25 November 1994

Headstone   Headstone     Plot/Grave no.  Family plot

Gazetted    14 October 1941 & 26 September 1945

VC Presented   11 May 1945 by King George VI at Buckingham Palace, London, England & 1946 by the Governor-General of New Zealand

Memorials

P  Headstone, St Paul's Churchyard, Papanui, New Zealand

Statue,  Amberley, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand

Bronze Relief on Bridge of Remembrance, Christchurch, South Island, New Zealand

Named on Victoria Cross Memorial, Queens Gardens, Dunedin, New Zealand

Memorial at Returned Servicemen's Association HQ, Dunedin, New Zealand

Upham Terrace, Palmerston North, New Zealand

By The Way…

Captured in the desert in 1942 he spent the rest of the war in various POW camps, ending up in Colditz Castle until liberation

VC Held By

Queen Elizabeth II Army Memorial Museum, Waiouru, New Zealand

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BORN    21 September 1908

DIED   22 November 1994   AGE   86

VC Won   22-30 May 1941, 14-15 July 1945    AGE    32

Place VC Won   Maleme, Crete & El Ruweisat Ridge, Egypt

War/Campaign   Second World War

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