Captain FREDERICK THORNTON PETERS
Royal Navy
H.M.S. Excellent
Died 13 November 1942
Age 53 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Awards Victoria Cross, Distinguished Service Order, Distinguished Service Cross and Bar
- Additional Info Distinguished Service Cross (U.S.A.). Son of Frederick and Bertha Hamilton Peters, of Nelson, British Columbia, Canada.
- Additional Citation note
The citation in the London Gazette of 14th May, 1943, reads : For valour in taking H.M.S. Walney, in an enterprise of desperate hazard, into the harbour of Oran on 8th November, 1942. Captain Peters led his force through the boom towards the jetty in the face of point-blank fire from the shore batteries, a destroyer and a cruiser. Blinded in one eye, he alone of the seventeen officers and men on the bridge survived. The Walney reached the jetty disabled and ablaze, and went down with her colours flying.
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