Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issues/29446/supplement/943. Lieutenant-Commander Edgar Christopher Cookson, Royal Navy. On the 28th September 1915, the river gunboat Comet had been ordered with other gunboats to examine and, if possible destroy an obstruction placed across the river by the Turks. When the gunboats were approaching the obstruction a very heavy rifle and machine-gun fire was opened on them from both banks. An attempt to sink the centre dhow of the obstruction by gunfire having failed, Lieutenant-Commander Cookson ordered the Comet to be placed alongside, and himself jumped on to the dhow with an axe and tried to cut wire hawsers connecting it with the two other craft forming the obstruction. He was immediately shot in several places and died within a very few minutes. DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issues/29292/supplement/9063.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issues/29446/supplement/943. Lieutenant-Commander Edgar Christopher Cookson, Royal Navy. On the 28th September 1915, the river gunboat Comet had been ordered with other gunboats to examine and, if possible destroy an obstruction placed across the river by the Turks. When the gunboats were approaching the obstruction a very heavy rifle and machine-gun fire was opened on them from both banks. An attempt to sink the centre dhow of the obstruction by gunfire having failed, Lieutenant-Commander Cookson ordered the Comet to be placed alongside, and himself jumped on to the dhow with an axe and tried to cut wire hawsers connecting it with the two other craft forming the obstruction. He was immediately shot in several places and died within a very few minutes. DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issues/29292/supplement/9063.