Grapevine Spring 25

Welcome to the latest newsletter from the Upham Veterans’ Communications Network. Click on any story below to explore what’s happening across the network.

The Grapevine was a hard-copy newsletter instituted in the 1970s for the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion (Canterbury, Nelson, Marlborough, West Coast) RNZIR. 

The first editor was the late Captain Bruce Stevenson, a company commander, who had served as a soldier with the NZSAS in Borneo, later being commissioned from OCS Portsea. After leaving the Army, he attended university, qualifying as a teacher, and eventually becoming Deputy Principal at St Patrick's College, Silverstream and, later, Principal of St Thomas of Canterbury College in Christchurch.

Early editions of The Grapevine included a series on the New Zealand Wars, which may be re-published in later editions of this newsletter.