Leading Seaman JACK FOREMAN MANTLE
Royal Navy
H.M.S. Foylebank
Died 04 July 1940
Age 23 years old
Photographer: Ian Small
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Awards Victoria Cross, Mentioned in Despatches
- Additional Info Son of Lisle John Foreman Mantle and Jeannie May Mantle, of Southampton.
- Personal Inscription "BECAUSE WE DID NOT CHOOSE TO LIVE AND SHAME THE LAND FROM WHICH WE SPRUNG"
- Additional Citation note
The following details are given in the London Gazette of 4th September, 1940: Leading Seaman Jack Foreman Mantle was in charge of the starboard pom-pom when H.M.S. Foylebank was attacked by enemy aircraft on 4th July, 1940. Early in the action his left leg was shattered by a bomb, but he went on firing his gun, with hand gear only, for the ship's electric power had failed. He suffered several further wounds but his great courage bore him up until the end of the fight, when he fell by the gun he had so valiantly served.
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