ACE U-BOAT KILLER
LEADER OF “ LITTLE SHIPS” WINS D.S.O. FOR FOURTH TIME RUGBY, June 13. The winning of the D.S.O. for the fourth time by Captain Frederick John Walker, C. 8., R.N., is announced in to-night’s London Gazette. The third bar to the original Order was awarded for outstanding leadership, skill, and determination leading to the destruction of six U-boats in the Atlantic.
Captain Walker is in command of the Second Escort Group, consisting of six sloops, of which Starling is the leader. Earlier this year these little ships delivered a shattering blow to
the German Navy by sinking six Üboats during the course of a .battle in the Atlantic lasting 20 days. The flotilla was so heavily engaged that it had to borrow depth charges from a convoy. Fifty-one prisoners were brought back to port. During the action H.M.S. Woodpecker was torpedoed and foundered some days later in heavy weather.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25562, 15 June 1944, Page 5
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