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Captain FREDERICK THORNTON PETERS

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Navy

H.M.S. Excellent

Date of Death

Died 13 November 1942

Age 53 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL

Panel 61, Column 3.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • 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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