Summer Learning Journey-Day 4 Activity 1!

Summer Learning Journey!

Day 4 Activity 1:A call to Arms.

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In WWII 140,000 New Zealanders were been sent overseas to serve in the war.Many had been sent to fight the big battles including the battle of the Atlantic that lasted for 2064 days(over 5 year)!.The battle had been ended in the year 1943.So in this activity we had to Read about the men below. They were both awarded a VC

during the Second World War.

 Choose one and read about him.

On your blog tell us about him. 

Who was he?

 What did he do to earn a Victoria

Cross medal?

This is what we had to read!

Flying​ ​Officer​ ​Lloyd​ ​Allan​ ​Trigg,​ ​RNZAF

(attached​ ​to​ ​RAF)

Date of action: 11 August 1943 (over the Atlantic)

Date of award: 2 November 1943 (posthumous award)

Lloyd Trigg is the only serviceman to have been awarded

the VC on the ‘recommendation’ of an enemy. A salesman

from Whāngārei, he joined the RNZAF in June 1941. After undertaking pilot training

in Canada he was seconded to the RAF and posted to Coastal Command, flying

anti-submarine patrols from West Africa. During an operational sortie on 11 August

1943, Trigg sighted U-468 on the surface. Despite being hit repeatedly by

anti-aircraft fire, Trigg pressed home his attack and fatally damaged the German

submarine with depth charges. His crippled Liberator then crashed into the sea with

the loss of all eight crew. German survivors praised Trigg’s courage after they were

picked up by an Allied ship. Their evidence was instrumental in the New Zealander

being awarded a posthumous VC.

Captain​ ​Charles​ ​Hazlitt​ ​Upham,​ ​20th​ ​Battalion,​ ​2NZEF

Date of actions: 22–30 May 1941 (Crete) and 14–15 July

1942 (North Africa)

Date of awards: 14 October 1941 and 26 September 1945

Charles Upham is probably New Zealand’s most famous

soldier. His actions during the Second World War led to him

becoming one of only three people – and the only combat soldier – to have won the

Victoria Cross twice. Upham earned his first VC in Crete in May 1941, and his Bar at

Ruweisat Ridge, Egypt, in July 1942. After being severely wounded in the latter

engagement, Upham was captured by the Germans. Numerous escape attempts,

including an audacious attempt to scale his camp’s barbed-wire fences in broad

daylight, saw Upham become the only New Zealand combat officer sent to the

infamous Colditz camp in 1944.

Hope you enjoyed reading the text that I have read now it is time for me to be answering the questions that we given.

Here is my answers to the questions.

Feel free to take a look but don't forget to COMMENT below!

Who was he?Lloyd Trigg

 What did he do to earn a Victoria

Cross medal?

He had been awarded

the VC on the ‘recommendation’ of an enemy.

-Enjoy Reading!
IALT: read information about two people and answer the questions that were given.