HOW WILSON WON THE V.C.
There are only three Victoria Cross men, commissioned or on the lower deck, on active service in the British Navy at present. One of them is Admiral Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson, whose appointment as First Sea Lord in succession to Lord Fisher of Kilverstone has been officially confirmed.
How the gallant Admiral won the coveted decoration makes thrilling reading. At the battle of El Teb in the Soudan, in 1884, the corner of the square where Wilson was in command of the Naval Brigade's Gardner gun was broken. Sword in hand, Wilson fought singlchanded and stemmed the ugly rush. Then his blade broke, whereupon he fought with his fists, the sword hilt making a most formidable knuckleduster which sent many a dervisher to the ground. Wilson's splendid stand enabled a detachment of the York and Lancaster to rush into the breach with the bayonet and so save the situation.
Sir Arthur saw service in the Crimea in the days of his youth, and subsequently was in China and Egypt during warfare.
He is the inventor of the doublebarrelled torpedo tube, and has served as a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and Controller of the Navy.—"M.A.P."
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2210, 29 August 1910, Page 7
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