This is Your Life - Charles Upham

Tonight you’re going to be meeting one of our country’s heroes. A person that most of us have heard of but very few of us really know that much about.

– Bob Parker, presenter

There were many other sights and sounds that night that, frankly, are better forgotten. But Charles shouting encouragement to his men, and, I wonder if he knows, that that same sound that night was a great encouragement also to me.

– Brigadier James Burrows, Upham’s commanding officer in Crete

What the hell is this place? It looks bloody awful to me!

– Charles Upham on arrival at Colitz Castle PoW camp

My abiding memory of Charles Upham in Colditz was his uncompromising attitude to German soldiers and German officers and guards. He indulged in irritating them to good cause.

– Dr Fred Moody, fellow Colditz prisoner