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“RATHER UNEVENTFUL VOYAGE” London, June 11Lieutenant P. S. Roberts, the V.C. winner, told his wife: “A terrible thing has happened; I have been given the Victoria Cross for something any man-jack aboard a submarine would have been glad to do.” His wife asked: “What was that?” and he answered: “Heave a couple of unexploded bombs overboard. That’s all.” When interviewed his wife said: “I had to find out from the newspapers exactly what my husband had done. When he returned from this particular voyage he told me it had been ‘rather an uneventful voyage.’ ” Admiral Cunningham signalled an order of the day at Alexandria before going to America: “I do not remember a braver deed.” Lieutenant Roberts lost an elder brother when H.M.S. Exmouth sank.—P.A. Lieutenant Roberts is one of the two young officers who have been awarded the V.C. for conspicuous gallantry while serving in H.M.S. Thrasher, in removing two unexploded bombs from the gun-casing of the submarine.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 13 June 1942, Page 5
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162MODESTY OF V.C Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 13 June 1942, Page 5
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