“Upham" are the german soldier's last words before Upham shoots him. Upham only shot him because he knew who the soldier was and realized that letting him live earlier was a mistake and so he kills him to rectify that mistake.
Victoria Cross & Bar ONLY three have ever been awarded & here are the three recipients. Britain's highest military honor is the Victoria Cross for conspicuous acts of gallantry. Created in January 1856, only 1,357 have been awarded. One three men in the history of the award have received more than one Victoria Cross.
The bronze from which all Victoria Crosses are made is supplied by the Central Ordnance Depot in Donnington. This metal is cut from cannons captured from the Russians at Sebastopol during the Crimean War.
Charles Hazlitt Upham, VC & Bar (21 September 1908 – 22 November 1994) was a New Zealand soldier who was awarded the Victoria Cross (VC) twice during the Second World War; in Crete in May 1941, and at Ruweisat Ridge, Egypt, in July 1942.
Where was Charles Upham born?
Christchurch, New Zealand
In uniform, you may only wear the medals of family who died whilst you were both serving. If you can do so, and not many can, they are worn on the right.
There is no official requirement that appears in the official warrant of the VC, nor in Queen's Regulations and Orders, but tradition dictates that this occurs, and as such, senior officers will salute a private awarded a VC or GC.
After obtaining “special permission” from Queen Victoria, they had a gold VC made to reflect “her indomitable pluck, during the cholera epidemic of 1869”. As a result, the medal given to Elizabeth Harris, although informal, is the only “VC” to have been awarded to a woman.
THE VICTORIA CROSS THAT SOLD FOR £1.5MILLION
- The Victoria Cross for 'conspicuous bravery' is the highest award and only 1,357 have been given since it was introduced in 1856. Medals are cast from gunmetal of two cannons captured from the Russians at the siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War in the 1850s.There are three living recipients of the Victoria Cross for Australia and one living recipient of the Victoria Cross for New Zealand. In 1921, the British Unknown Warrior was awarded the US Medal of Honor and reciprocally the Victoria Cross was presented to the American Unknown Soldier of the First World War.
James Collis won the Victoria Cross in an earlier Afghan war, only to have the honour taken from him. For the Collis VC is one of just eight in existence that were forfeited for the subsequent criminal behaviour of their recipients.
More than 2,000 people in Epsom have signed a petition to hand the freedom of the borough to the soldiers of the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, which has won 57 Victoria Crosses in its 350-year history.
It may be awarded to a person of any military rank in any service and to civilians under military command although no civilian has received the award since 1879. The VC was introduced on 29 January 1856 by Queen Victoria to honour acts of valour during the Crimean War.
'The official rules for wearing medals allow only official awards to be worn. The medals awarded to a deceased Service/ex-Service person may be worn on the right breast by a near relative (mother, father, sister, brother, wife, husband, daughter and son). Not more than one group should be worn by any individual'.
There are five living holders of the VC—one RAF (WW2), three British Army (Confrontation, Iraq and Afghanistan) and one Australian Army (Vietnam).
However, since the Second World War only 15 Victoria Cross medals have been awarded - with ten of these recipients still alive today. Communities Secretary Eric Pickles is today honouring 145 servicemen born outside the UK who were awarded with the Victoria Cross during the First World War.
The last occasion a Commonwealth country was awarded the Victoria Cross was in 1969 during the Vietnam War and today all Commonwealth countries whose armed forces had been awarded the Victoria Cross under the British honours systems have their own honours systems and their own orders, decorations and medals.
Since 1940, military personnel who have distinguished themselves for gallantry not in the face of the enemy have been awarded the George Cross, which is immediately after the VC in the Order of Wear. The Victoria Cross was extended to colonial troops in 1867.
Q: What does Captain Miller say to Ryan on the bridge? A: “James . . . earn this,” and then “Earn it,” obviously telling him to live a life worthy of the lives sacrificed to rescue him.
