Major Charles Heapy, V.C.
Charles Heapy, explorer and surveyor of the West Coast, had the distinction of earning the only Victoria Cross awarded to a colonial soldier during the Maori wars. He had already taken an active part in the struggle and been twice wounded, when, in January, 1864, he became chief surveyor to the New Zealand Government. Attached immediately thereafter as staff surveyor to the field under Generals Cameron and Chute, he accompanied the army throughout the campaign, until on the lower Waikato in an engagement at Waiari, on the Mangapiko River, in February, 1864, he earned his V.C. for his gallantry in going to the aid of a severely-wounded soldier. — B.W. (Wanganui).
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 6, 2 October 1937, Page 3 (Supplement)
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114Major Charles Heapy, V.C. Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 6, 2 October 1937, Page 3 (Supplement)
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