CLEARING THE TIGRIS
NAVAL OFFICERS' HEROISM,
(Received January 22, 8.55 a.m.)
LONDON, 21st January. The Victoria Cross has been awarded Lieut.-Commander Cookson. Aboard tho gunboat Comet, on 28th September, during the advance on Kut el Amara, he was ordered to destroy an obstruction across the Tigris. An attempt to sink tho central dhow by gunfire failed, and Commander Cookson ordered the Comet alongside and jumped into the dhow, axe in hand, and tried, to cut the hawsers connecting it with the other craft forming the obstruction, despite the heaviest rifle and machinegun fire from both banks. Ho was immediately shot, and soon died. Three othor officers of ths Comot received Distinguished .Service ..Crosses., ifld. sisteSß
petty-officers and men Distinguished Service medals.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 18, 22 January 1916, Page 7
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