“V.C.” PUBLICATION

Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22136, 7 September 1943, Page 3

“V.C.” PUBLICATION

NEW ZEALAND WINNERS

(Received Sept. 7, 11 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 6 “V.C.” is the brief title of an official publication listing the winners cf the Victoria Cross in this war. A photograph of each winner is included, with a brief account of the action in which he won it. Over the caption is a graphic black and white sketch. The first New Zealander is Sergeant J. D. Hinton. A sketch shows him flinging a grenade with his left hand at a gun. Then Sergeant A. C. Hulme is seen throwing a grenade, and SecondLieutenant C. H. Upham carrying a wounded man on his back. ~ The next is Sergeant J. A. Ward, with an excellent impression of how he clung on to a bomber wing. Sergeant K. Elliott is depicted bayoneting a German while another fires at him at point-blank range. SecondLieutenant Ngarimu is shown hurling a hand grenade. The beak’s coloured jacket simply shows a bronze cross and a maroon ribbon against a sandy maroonstreaked background, with the maroon letters V.C.