MRS. UPHAM ARRIVES

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 148, 20 December 1945, Page 8

MRS. UPHAM ARRIVES

MET BY HER HUSBAND

Mrs. Upham, wife or Captain Upham, V.C. and Bar, arrived' by the Mooltan tdday and was met by her husband. She was wearing the navy uniform of the British Red Cross, with which she has been serving overseas.

Mrs. Upham was presented by Miss Iris Crooke, Director of V.A.D.s, with a bouquet on -behalf of the Red Cross Society. Mrs. Upham, who was sharing a fiat in London with Mrs. Mowbray Tripp, Assistant Red Cross Commissioner for New Zealand, was out doing welfare work when the news of her husband's second award came through, and on returning home found 14 pressmen and a barrage of cameras awaiting her. Mrs. Upham, who completed her nursing training in Wellington, went to France with a specially selected commission shortly after the British Landing Army and was the first woman to cross the Rhine after hospital personnel. She worked at tho Red Cross transit camp for prisoners of war, with headquarters at Brussels. With her trim navy uniform, peaked cap with its white surround, anc« New Zealand shoulder flashes, she wore the scarlet woollen gloves issued during the coldest part of her stay in Germany, and which made her identification easy for Captain Upham among the crowd at the ship's rail. They will spend a few days with friends in Wellington before leaving for the south.