London, Oct. 15.
The award of Victoria Crosses. to two.members of the New Zealand forces, Second Lieutenant Charles Hazlitt Upham and Sergeant Alfred Clive Hulme, for Services in Crete was announced in the London Gazette yesterday.
Second Lieutenant Upham was stated during operations in Crete to have performed a series of remarkable exploits showing outstanding leadership, practical skill and utter indifference to danger, Sergeant Hulme exhibited most outstanding and inspiring qualities of leadership, me itiative, skill and endurance and most conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty from "commencement of the heavy fighting in Crete until be was wounded.
'Twenty-one Victoria Crosses have now been awarded during this war—three to New riders, one to an Australian, two to men in the Indiam army and' the remainder to men in the- British services.
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