Platel, Francis Vittery

Date of birth:: 1909 (Northumberland, United Kingdom)
Date of death:: November 23rd, 1944 (Germany)
Buried on:: Hanover Commonwealth War Cemetery
Plot: 7. Row: F. Grave: 18.
Nationality:: British

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George Medal

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Captain
Unit:: No. 1 Sub-Depot, No. 8 Base Ammunition Depot, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, British Army
Awarded on:: July 22nd, 1941

"At Masara, on the 23rd January, 1941, an explosion occurred in a cave gallery of No. 8 Base Ammunition Depot, killing and wounding about ten of the staff and igniting a stack of gun cartridges. Captain Platel organised and led a rescue and fire-fighting party into the gallery where the cartridges were exploding in all directions; they fought and extinguished the fire. The cave was full of ammunition of all calibres and, but for this officer’s prompt action, example and disregard of danger, the fire must have spread irrevocably, caused a major explosion and the loss of much ammunition."