AWARDED D.S.C.
——♦— ———— WELLNGTON NAVAL OFFICER. GALLANTRY IN CONVOY ACTION. When Captain Sherbrooke, D. 5.0., won the V.C. in H.M.S. Onslow, for' leading a destroyer attack against a German force off the North Cape on December 31, 142, his first lieutenant was Lieutenant Lewis King, R.N.Z.V.R.. of Wellington, who was awarded the D.S.C. for his part in this action. Lieutenant King joined the Onslow last August. He left her recently to take a gunnery course. He had been in 15 Russia-bound convoys, also in last June’s Malta-bound convoy. He saw three and a half weeks. of the North African campaign and was previously in the combined operations raid against the Germans in Norway. King arrived in England in May, 1940, with the first draft of New Zealand naval officers and ratings.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1943, Page 3
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130AWARDED D.S.C. Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1943, Page 3
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