GALLANTRY RECOGNISED.
OSTEND RAIDERS DECORATED
(Received 7.30 p.m.)
LONDON, Aug. 28
The list of awards in connection with the blocking of Ostend harbour on May 9 include three Victoria Crosses.
Lieut-Commander Drummond, m charge of a motor launch, despite three severe wounds navigated his seriously damaged boat and took off forty of the Vindictive's crew, some of whom were killed during the embarkation
Lifut.-Commander Bourke, who was in charge of another motor launch, engaged the enemy guns with a Lewis gun. After withdrawing he heard cries, re-entered the harbour, and rescued three wounded men clinging to a skiff. The launch was hit in fifty-six places, including a shot by a six-inch shell. Lieut. Victor Crutchley, who assumed command of the Vindictive after his superior officers had been put out of action and manoeuvred the Vindictive into position, did not oave until he had thoroughly searched with an electric torch for survivors. He assumed command of Lt. Drummond's motor launch, when the commander collapsed owing to wounds, and kept her afloat by bailing out. Captain Benn, a member of ths House of Commons, has been appointed a Commander of the Bath, and Captain Ernest Wiggam has been created a Companion of St. Michael and St. George for gallant conduct in the Ostend action.—A. and N.Z.
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Northern Advocate, 30 August 1918, Page 3
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