Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29928/pages/1160. Lieutenant Humphrey Osbaldston Brooke Firman, Royal Navy. On the night of 24th/25th April 1916 in Mesopotamia, an attempt was made to reprovision the force besieged at Kut-el-Amara. Lieutenant Firman, commanding SS Julnar, with a lieutenant-commander, a sub-lieutenant and 12 ratings, started off with 270 tons of stores up the River Tigris. Unfortunately Julnar was attacked almost at once by Turkish machine-guns and heavy artillery. At Magasis, steel hawsers stretched across the river halted the expedition, the enemy opened fire at point-blank range and Julnar's bridge was smashed. Lieutenant Firman and several of his crew were killed, the survivors and supplies being captured.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29928/pages/1160. Lieutenant Humphrey Osbaldston Brooke Firman, Royal Navy. On the night of 24th/25th April 1916 in Mesopotamia, an attempt was made to reprovision the force besieged at Kut-el-Amara. Lieutenant Firman, commanding SS Julnar, with a lieutenant-commander, a sub-lieutenant and 12 ratings, started off with 270 tons of stores up the River Tigris. Unfortunately Julnar was attacked almost at once by Turkish machine-guns and heavy artillery. At Magasis, steel hawsers stretched across the river halted the expedition, the enemy opened fire at point-blank range and Julnar's bridge was smashed. Lieutenant Firman and several of his crew were killed, the survivors and supplies being captured.