Английская Википедия:George Samson
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Infobox military person George McKenzie Samson VC (7 January 1889 – 28 February 1923) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, for his actions during the Gallipoli Campaign of the First World War. Samson was from Carnoustie in Angus, 26 years old, and a seaman in the Royal Naval Reserve when he was awarded the VC.
On 25 April 1915 during the landing at V Beach on Cape Helles, Seaman Samson, along with three other men (George Leslie Drewry, Wilfred St. Aubyn Malleson, and William Charles Williams) was assisting the commander (Edward Unwin) of their ship Шаблон:HMS, at the work of securing the lighters. He worked all day under very heavy fire, attending wounded and getting out lines. He was eventually seriously wounded by Maxim fire.[1]
While dressed in civilian clothes and on his way to a public reception in his honour, Samson was given a white feather.[2]
He later achieved the rank of petty officer and rejoined the Merchant Navy after the war, ultimately dying of pneumonia.Шаблон:Citation needed He is buried in the new St. George's Military Cemetery off Secretary Lane in St. George's, Bermuda. His VC is in the Lord Ashcroft Gallery in the Imperial War Museum in London.
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- ↑ Шаблон:London Gazette
- ↑ John Glanfield, Bravest of the Brave (2005), pp. 110–12, Sutton Publishing, Шаблон:ISBN
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