Summer Learning Journey Week 2 Day 4 Activity 2

Activity 2:  A Call to Arms

Over the course of WWII, approximately 140,000 New Zealanders were sent overseas to serve in the war. Many were sent to fight in huge battles, including the Battle of the Atlantic that lasted for 2064 days (over 5 years)! The Battle of the Atlantic came to an end in 1943, in large part due to the heroic efforts of people like Lloyd Trigg, a pilot from New Zealand. He was awarded a special medal from the New Zealand Government for his bravery. It is called a Victoria Cross (‘VC’ for short). A total of 22 New Zealanders have been awarded VCs.

Click on this link to find a list of VC winners. Choose one from the Second World War, and read about him. On your blog tell us about him. Who was he? What did he do to earn a Victoria Cross medal?

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The person I was likely to choose was James Ward. 

This man was the first New Zealand airman to recieve a VC.  He received his medal by climbing out of a plane onto the wing which technically was on fire, so James Ward went out of the plane and smothered the fire. Two months later after the incident , James Ward was announced dead when he was at his controls of his burning plane after it was hit.