WAR-TIME HERO
U BOAT STORY RECALLED Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, February 26. (Received February 27, at 1.25 p.m.) John Lawless, who on July 29, 1918, sank a German submarine singlehanded, was fined £1 at Falkirk for defrauding the labour exchange by receiving benefit while employed at the docks. He was serving in the steamer Clover in' the Western Isles, when a TJ boat was encountered. The passengers and crew were ordered to leave the ship. Lawless disobeyed and remained on board. Ultimately the submarine was sunk. He was afterwards taken before a tribunal and reprimanded for disobedience in the face of the enemy, and was then awarded the D.S.M. , , A For the defence it was stated that Lawless’s fraud was really an act of bravado.
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Evening Star, Issue 21656, 27 February 1934, Page 12
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