TNA / ADM 116 4649

TNA ADM 116 4649

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TNA ADM 116 4649

Operation Dynamo reports and recommendations for awards, volume 2 (1940–1942), documenting service during the Dunkirk evacuation and the cases submitted for official recognition.

Holding archive: TNA
Collection reference: ADM 116 4649

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Source: The National Archives, Kew, ADM 116/4649. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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48	Log in to enlarge	Page 8 Operation "DYNAMO" - Recommendations of Personnel. H.M.S. GRAFTON - Commander Cecil E. C. Robinson, R.N. (Killed when ship was torpedoed) GRAFTON embarked 277 troops during the night of 27th May, landing them at Dover 1100/28 after which she returned to Bray beach. Leaving Bray just after midnight with 850 troops on board, she was hit by 2 torpedoes fired by a M.T.B. at 0250, while lying stopped picking up survivors from a sunken ship. The stern of the ship abaft the after magazine bulkhead was blown off and the ship's back appeared to be broken. An hour later, the ship rolling heavily in a rising sea, the troops were transferred to S.S. MALINES and then all the ship's company that could be spared. The remainder transferred later to IVANHOE when GRAFTON was slowly sinking. Recommendations. OFFICER. Surgeon-Lieutenant Joseph Wishart Shield, M.B., B.Ch. R.N.V.R. Worked indefatigably among the many wounded and with complete disregard for his own safety, visited damaged compartments in the stern searching for wounded before he could possibly have known that the ship would not sink at once. Recommended for decoration.	Ivanhoe Malines Ch. Dover May Page Robinson

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Operation "DYNAMO" - Recommendations of Personnel.
H.M.S. GRAFTON - Commander Cecil E. C. Robinson, R.N.
(Killed when ship was torpedoed)
GRAFTON embarked 277 troops during the night of 27th
May, landing them at Dover 1100/28 after which she returned
to Bray beach. Leaving Bray just after midnight with 850
troops on board, she was hit by 2 torpedoes fired by a
M.T.B. at 0250, while lying stopped picking up survivors
from a sunken ship.
The stern of the ship abaft the after magazine bulkhead
was blown off and the ship's back appeared to be broken.
An hour later, the ship rolling heavily in a rising
sea, the troops were transferred to S.S. MALINES and then
all the ship's company that could be spared. The remainder
transferred later to IVANHOE when GRAFTON was slowly
sinking.
Recommendations.
OFFICER.
Surgeon-Lieutenant Joseph Wishart Shield, M.B., B.Ch. R.N.V.R.
Worked indefatigably among the many wounded and
with complete disregard for his own safety, visited
damaged compartments in the stern searching for
wounded before he could possibly have known that the
ship would not sink at once.
Recommended for decoration.