NAVAL HERO
FOUGHT GUN WHEN FATALLY WOUNDED. VICTORIAN CROSS AWARDED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON. September 4. The Victoria Cross has been awarded to the late Leading Seaman Jack Foreman Mantle, of H.M.S. Foylebank. The citation reads: — Leading Seaman Mantle was in charge of the starboard pompqm when enemy aircraft attacked the Foylebank on July 4. Early in the action a bomb shattered his left leg, but he stood fast to the gun and went on firing with the handgear because the ship’s electric power had failed. Almost immediately he was again wounded in many places. Between the bursts of fire he had time to reflect on the grevious injuries from which he would soon die, but his great courage bore him up till the end of the fight, when he fell by the gun he had so valiantly served.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1940, Page 5
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