NAVAL HEROES
LONDON, Dec. 1
William Taylor, ship’s boy in the Norfolk, is one of 108 navy heroes of the Bismarck battle whose names have been gazetted. Seventeen-year-old Midshipman W. J. Dundas, one of the Hood’s three survivors out of a total of 1421, is also mentioned in despatches, along with his two colleagues, Able-Seaman Robert E. Tilburn, aged 20, and Signalman A. E. P. Briggs, aged 18. Rear-Admiral Vian (“Vian of the Cossack”) receives a second bar to his D.S.O.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20660, 10 January 1942, Page 5
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