Awarded the VC for his heroism on 18 August 1919, age 34, while serving in the Royal Navy. "Commanding Coastal Motor Boat №31 he passed into Kronstadt Harbour under heavy machine gun fire, torpedoed the battleship Andrei Pervozvann, and escaped under heavy fire showing conspicuous gallantry and skill. (Kronstadt, Russia)". Freemason at: №2612, Navy Lodge.
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Claude Congreve Dobson, VC
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Freemason VCs - N6 - Dimmer, Dobson, Dorrell
John Henry Stephen Dimmer, 12 November 1914, Age 31, The King’s Royal Rifle C...
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Humphrey Firman, VC
Seaman. Born Humphrey Osbaldston Brooke Firman in Kensington. In April 1916, British forces were trapped in the Siege of Kut in what was then known as Mesopotamia. Firman, in command of the ship Ju...
Lance Corporal Joseph John Bolton
Joseph John Bolton was born on 8 January 1889, the eldest of the five children of Joseph George Bolton (1863-1942) and Emily Bolton née Challis (1859-1947). His birth was registered in the 1st quar...
Private John Carr
John Carr was born in 1883 in Rotherhithe, Surrey (now Greater London). He was a son of John Carr and Elizabeth Carr née Gardiner. In the 1891 census he was shown as living in two rooms at 8 Rudfor...
Corporal Ernest Fulford
Ernest Fulford was born on 5 July 1890 in Islington, London, the youngest of the three children of John Philip Fulford (1856-1938) and Isabelle Ann Fulford née Lee (1850-1895). His birth was regist...
H. Hammonds
Co-partner or employee of the South Suburban Gas Company. Served but did not die in WW1.
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