The Only WW2 Soldier to Win the Victoria Cross Twice

A spent bullet in his foot. Dysentery. Shrapnel behind the shoulder — and Charles Upham kept advancing, a quiet New Zealand sheep farmer dropping machine-gun crews with grenades on the island of Crete. He would become the only combat soldier in history to win the Victoria Cross twice, then a prisoner the Germans simply could not hold: jumping from moving trains, climbing the wire in daylight, until they sent him to Colditz. But the medals are the easy part of his story. The hard part is everything he refused afterward.