ANOTHER V.C.
To the Editor, "The Listener" Sir,-In your issue of December 10 you publish a letter by J.P.S., of Turua, Hauraki Plains, in which he says that Major Charles Heaphy won the Victoria Cross during the Maori War, and further states that "no other member of the New Zealand Colonial Defence Force received that honour during the Maori disturbances." This is incorrect, for Sergeant E. McKenna was awafded this suprefrie decoration for conspicuous gallantry in the Waikato on September 7, 1863. I cannot do better that refer jJ.P.S. to Mr. James Cowan’s splendid book Hero Stories of New Zealand, which gives the full details of McKenna’s action, In after yeats he was stationmaster at Wanganui and Palmerston North, and on special occasions, such as Queen Victoria’s birthday, he wore the Cross. Yours, ete.,
J.G.
W.
iding, December 10, 1939, [J.G.W. is right, but J.P.S. was not wrong. Heaphy was the only member of the New Zealand Colonial Defetice Fotce to win the V.C. McKenna, when he was decorated, was a member of a British regiment, the 56th, in which he was a Colour-Sergeant.-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 28, 5 January 1940, Page 11
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