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Captain Charles Upham VC & Bar, holder of, the only double VC ever awarded to a combat soldier won his first VC in Crete.


[ London Gazette, 14 October 1941 ]. Maleme, Crete, 22nd - 30th May 1941 - Second Lieutenant Charles Hazlitt Upham, 20th Bn 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force ( Canterbury Regiment )


He displayed outstanding gallantry in close-quarter fighting, when blown up by two mortar shells and badly wounded. In spite of this and an attack of dysentry which reduced him to a skelatal appearance, he refused hospital treatment and carried a badly wounded man to safety when forced to retire. Eight days later he beat off an attack at Sphakia, 22 Germans falling to his accurate fire
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