Searching For Charlie: In Pursuit of the Real Charles Upham, VC and Bar

Charles Upham was the most highly decorated soldier in the Commonwealth forces of WWII. An unassuming stock worker/ valuer at the beginning of the war, he stormed through Crete and the Western Desert amazing and confounding his comrades with his exploits. He won two Victoria Crosses (the only combat soldier ever to do so). Captured, he became an escape artist. Shy and reluctant to take credit for his actions, he deflected all praise onto his soldiers and was described as “distraught” that he had been honoured.