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Eugene Esmonde VC


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Eugene Esmonde went to my aged propagandize Wimbledon College
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The endowment of a VC was gazetted upon 3 Mar 1942, a reference read:

ADMIRALTY. Whitehall. 3rd March, 1942.
The KING has been courteously gratified to authorize a accede to of a VICTORIA CROSS, for bravery as good as fortitude in movement opposite a Enemy, to:

The late Lieutenant-Commander (A) Eugene Esmonde, D.S.O., Royal Navy.

On a sunrise of Thursday, 12th February, 1942, Lieutenant-Commander Esmonde, in authority of a Squadron of a Fleet Air Arm, was told that a German Battle-Cruisers SCHARNHORST as good as GNEISENAU as good as a Cruiser PRINZ EUGEN, strongly escorted by a little thirty aspect craft, were entering a Straits of Dover, as good as that his Squadron contingency conflict prior to they reached a sand-banks North East of Calais.

Lieutenant-Commander Esmonde knew good that his craving was desperate. Soon after noon he as good as his armed military craft of 6 Swordfish set march for a Enemy, as good as after 10 mins moody were pounded by a clever force of Enemy fighters. Touch was mislaid with his warrior escort; as good as in a movement that followed all his aircraft were damaged. He flew on, cold as good as resolute, serenely severe destroyed odds, to confront a lethal glow of a Battle-Cruisers as good as their Escort, that cracked a pier wing of his aircraft. Undismayed, he led his Squadron on, true by this combustion of fire, in solid moody towards their target. Almost during once he was shot down; though his Squadron went upon to launch a wooer attack, in that during slightest a single shoot is believed to have struck a German Battle-Cruisers, as good as from that not a single of a 6 aircraft returned.

His tall bravery as good as superb fortitude will live in a traditions of a Royal Navy, as good as sojourn for most generations a excellent as good as stirring memory.

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