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osure to Commanding Officer H.M.S. "Impulsive"s" letter of 5.6.40
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mmended for Decoration.
Officer:
Licutenant-Commander John David Lowis Williams, Royal Navy,
for organisation and devotion to duty in superintending the
embarbation of troops from the East Pier and the beaches of
Dunkirk between Salls May 28th and Dalla May 31st.
Ratings:
Frank William Knight, Able Seaman, P/J 102492, for
bravery and dovotion to duty. When the ship was being attacked
by machine guns from the air he personally threw overboard three
ready-use 427 cartridges which had been set alight by tracer
bullets. AS gun-layer of B gun he armed his crow with rifles
to engage the enemy after his gun had been put out of action.
Thomas Henry Heath, Leading Seaman, P/JX 155195, for
initiative and devotion to duty when employed as comain of
the whaler used to bring off troops from the beaches on May 28th
and May 31st.
Albert George Tullet, Leading Seaman, P/JX 129610, for
initiative and devotion to duty when employed as coxwain of the
whaler used for bringing off troops from the beaches on May 28th,
and for devotion to duty when Gunlayer of 025 Machine Gun during
heavy machine gun attack from the air on May 28th.
amended for Mention in Despatches.
Officers:
Lieutenant (3) Ralph Grey, Royal Navy, for organisation
in maintaining the Engine Room Department efficiently during
four trips to Dunkirk at full speed, and for devotion to duty
and shafts had been damaged by grounding on an uncharted wreck
in keeping the ship under weigh on one engine, when both propellor:
on May 31st.
Mr.Alan John Macmillan, Gunner (T), Royal Navy, for
machine attack, and for devotion to duty whilst directing
organising efficient repairs to electrical damage caused by
the fire gun of 025 Machine Duns during a heavy machine gun attack
from the air on May 28th.
Ratings:
Clement Starling, Leading Seaman R.F.R., P/B 18157,
for devotion to duty whilst Gunlayer of 025 Machine Gan during
heavy machine gun attack from the air on May 28th.
Eber George Osborne, Able Seanan, P/J 98753, for
attack from the air on May 28th, and whilst employed an boatkeeper
devotion to duty whilst Lowis Gunner during heavy machine gun
in boats used to embark troops from beaches on May Slst.