This web feature was written by Gareth Phipps and produced by the NZHistory team.
Note on sources: the primary sources for this feature are the Victoria Cross (VC) citations listed in the London Gazette (which are linked to from each entry). These medal citations were usually based on eyewitness statements written soon after the event. Unfortunately, many accounts omit relevant details (presumably for reasons of military secrecy), and have been supplemented with information gathered from the sources listed below.
Links
- The Victoria Cross for New Zealand (NZDF Medals)
- Victoria Cross (Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand)
- Overseas Victoria Cross recipients archive (Gov.UK)
- Charles Heaphy biography (DNZB)
- William Hardham biography (DNZB)
- Cyril Bassett biography (DNZB)
- Richard Travis biography (DNZB)
- Reginald Judson biography (DNZB)
- Charles Upham biography (DNZB)
- Clive Hulme biography (DNZB)
- Keith Elliott biography (DNZB)
- Te Moananui-a-Kiwa Ngarimu biography (DNZB)
- Leonard Trent biography (DNZB)
- Bernard Freyberg biography (DNZB)
- William Sanders biography (DNZB)
- Alfred Shout biography (Australian Dictionary of Biography)
- Thomas Cooke biography (Australian Dictionary of Biography)
- Percy Storkey biography (Australian Dictionary of Biography)
- Lawrence Weathers biography (Australian Dictionary of Biography)
Books
- G.A. Bryant, Where the prize is highest: the stories of the New Zealanders who won the Victoria Cross, Collins, Auckland, 1972
- Glyn Harper and Colin Richardson, In the face of the enemy: the complete history of the Victoria Cross and New Zealand, HarperCollins, Auckland, 2006
- Ian McGibbon (ed.), The Oxford companion to New Zealand military history, Oxford University Press, Auckland, 2000