New Zealand Farmers: William Massey, Charles Upham, Rua Kenana Hepetipa, Keith Holyoake, John Evans Brown, Bill English, Marilyn Waring (Paperback) - Taschenbuch

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 91. Chapters: William Massey, Charles Upham, Rua Kenana Hepetipa, Keith Holyoake, John Evans Brown, Bill English, Marilyn Waring, Richard Pearse, Jim Bolger, Samuel Butler, George William Forbes, Gordon Coates, Alfred Ludlam, Miles Mander, Harry Ell, Rewi Alley, Burt Munro, William Rolleston, Colin Meads, Chris Carter, Edward Wingfield Humphreys, John Bryce, Jim Sutton, James Christie, Maurice O'Rorke, Heaton Rhodes, Bob Berry, Geoffrey Fisken, Dicky Barrett, Gordon Bridson, Brian Talboys, John Chapman Andrew, Harvey and Jeannette Crewe, William Sheat, Jimmy Hunter, Morgan Williams, Henry Samuel Chapman, James Carroll, Tony Woodcock, William Russell, William Barnard Rhodes, William Cutfield King, Douglas Lynsar, Thomas McDonnell, William Soltau Davidson, David Buddo, John Edward Shewry, William George Malone, Te Puea Herangi, Nathan Guy, Denis Marshall, Stanley Graham, William Miles Maskell, Felix Wakefield, James Reddy Clendon, Ditlev Gothard Monrad, William Mein Smith, Harold Rushworth, Les Munro, Robin Gray, James Hargest, George Witty, Bob Simcock, Brian Connell, David Spence Thomson, George Leslie Adkin, Venn Young, Grant Gillon, Allen Bell, Doug Woolerton, James Glenny Wilson, Wiremu Parata, Herbert Kyle, William Shepherd Allen, Edward Jollie, John Karslake Karslake, Samuel Duncan Parnell, Conrad Byrne, Duncan MacIntyre, William Donald Stuart MacDonald, Ruatara, Taurekareka Henare, Walter James Bolton, Penny Webster, Shane Ardern, James Craigie, Josiah Firth, James Courtney, Sean Becker, Eugene O'Conor, Tiaki Omana, Arthur Allan Thomas, Tommy Solomon, Johnny Jones, Walter Clarke Buchanan, William Herries, Tim Wallis, John McLachlan, Jeremiah Connolly, Robert Thompson, Owen Jennings, Richard Harrison, Eric Roy, Edward Chaytor, John Davies Wilder Ormond, Robert McNab, Sandra Goudie, G. H. Cunningham, Rob Moodie, Colin King, Andrew Russell, John Norman Massey, Paddy Kearins, Alfred Dillon, Ritchie Macdonald, Edward Earle Vaile, William Lee Martin, Jack Luxton, Rob Storey, Hiram Hunter, Allan Dick, P. H. Matthews, John Manchester Allen, Peter Elworthy, Herbert Guthrie-Smith, James Mackintosh, Fred Waite, Ormond Wilson, Ken Gray, Harold Beamish, James Randall Corrigan, John McManus, Aubrey Begg, Arthur Grigg, Colin McLachlan, Alec Monteith, David John Gunn, Andrew William Rutherford, Henry Augustus Field, Bertie Cooksley, William Paul. Excerpt: Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham VC and Bar (21 September 1908 - 22 November 1994) was a New Zealand soldier who earned the Victoria Cross twice during the Second World War: in Crete in May 1941, and at Ruweisat Ridge, Egypt, in July 1942. He was only the third person to receive the VC twice, the only person to receive two VCs during the Second World War and the only combat soldier to receive the award twice. As a result, Upham is often described as the most highly decorated Commonwealth soldier of that war, as the VC is the Commonwealth's highest award for extreme gallantry in the face of the enemy. Upham was born at 32 Gloucester Street in Central Christchurch on 21 September 1908, the son of John Hazlitt Upham, a lawyer, and his wife, Agatha Mary Coates. He boarded at Waihi School, Winchester, South Canterbury, between 1917 and 1922 and at Christ's College, Christchurch, from 1923-27. He attended Canterbury Agricultural College (presently known as Lincoln University) where he earned a diploma in agriculture in 1930. He worked first as a sheep farmer, later as manager, a...