Ulva Lynn Belsham QSO (née Bradshaw; 4 April 1921 – 18 June 2011) was a telegraphist and volunteer radio operator for the Marine Radio Service in the southern part of the South Island of New Zealand.
[1] William Timaru Joss was her grandfather, a Stewart Island whaler and part of the first confirmed landing party on the continent of Antarctica, aboard the Antarctic in January 1895.
[4] During World War II Belsham worked as a telegraphist at the Royal New Zealand Air Force base at Wigram Aerodrome in Christchurch.
In 1946 she moved to Hinetui Point, Colac Bay and became a volunteer operator for the Marine Radio Service.
One of her projects was to transcribe and publish the birth, deaths and marriages register compiled by Rev.