Period:

Second World War (1939-1945)

Rank:

Stoker 1st Class

Unit:

H.M.S. Perseus (N36), Royal Navy

Awarded on:

December 14th, 1943

"For outstanding courage, endurance and resource."
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"He and three others escaped from the sinking HMS Perseus using the Twill Trunk escape hatch in the engine room and wearing Davis Submerged Escape Apparatus. However, only he survived the journey to the surface and the five mile (8 km) swim to the island of Cephalonia, where he was hidden by islanders for 18 months before being smuggled in a caïque to Smyrna in Turkey."