VICTORIA CROSSES AWARDED

Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 27, 14 June 1940, Page 4

VICTORIA CROSSES AWARDED

First Of War To® Killed AtNarvf MISSING R.A.F. jipi . honoured ■ British official Wireless and I’raiJ LONDON, J The first Victoria Crosstfj war. has been awarded to K Warburton Lee, who took the stroyer Hardy into Narvik Fm April on his own responsibility,, was killed in the' resultant aca Other Victoria Crosses have! awarded to two members oi| R.A.F., both of whom have posted missing. f Captain Warburton Lee lost ba in the first attack on Narvik, 'rtf led his destroyer flotilla into the hour in spite of its occupation hi perior enemy forces. Falling m wounded by a shell which hit theha of his ship, the Hardy, his lad was ‘‘Continue to engage the eneif Victoria Crosses have been aw to Flying Officer Donald, Edward land and Sergeant Thomas Grip posted missing. They were the P and observer respectively ofthtlwd: plane of a formation <>i fivewhid. cessfully attacked a vital tapthe Albert ('anal which was! the Germans to enter Belgium.W were ' issued that the bridge■ destroyed at all costs. A sqnatot the advanced striking force in** the task and the crews were® by drawing lots. Only one of® planes returned. Firing Officer Garland waP® Wicklow. Eire, in 1918, his home? in Yorkshire. Sergeant Gray rt* l in 1914. Much of the success* attack on the bridge was due ® as they, led the formation in sum tier that the whole formation ■ successfully to attack the tar? •, the heavy subsequent loss. ; Captain B. A. W. WarburtoD-IJ who, had he lived, would & „ J last month 32 years in de ■ spent most of his sea-going ■ I stroyers. ’ . ',-s a t ill As a cadet he passed o of his term from the tia ’ At fk berland .in December, t • vJS ji ginning of the Great W shipman m H.M.b. nJ , S 5 on the Cape and Fas "i ieU tenM Later, he served as SU'D lieutenant in the des . Mischief* and Wrestler. . Apart from, courses a g periods of service in iai e v = g iD i* most of’ his. time sin 4- y aD eS> ers, including the Ma Ipot the Witch. e aA“Sd when he was promoted 30. 1930. u ,nn.Lee's Captain Warbint n mand in that rank chief ° r L| kins as flag-cap ‘ an dinr tl the vice-admiral - com®oaJ J serve Fleet. He J<» n J February, 19 Vi 3B ’ T? ffim'hain ffheD > ed over to the E Tyj ien the came the flagship- . nll pee sa"5 a " 1 ed Captain Wa rburt all K p J ing a tactical u S' t he 0 * a few months ago th ca ptain (P to IT.M.S. Hardy as . destroyer flotilla ‘ -