Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35382/supplement/7103. Lieutenant-Commander Malcolm David Wanklyn, Royal Navy. On 24th May 1941 in the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, Lieutenant-Commander Wanklyn, commanding HM Submarine Upholder, torpedoed a troopship which was with a strongly protected convoy. The troopship sank and Upholder then endured a strong counter-attack in which 37 depth charges were dropped in 20 minutes, before she got clear. By the end of 1941 Lieutenant-Commander Wanklyn has sunk nearly 140,000 tons of enemy shipping, including a destroyer and troopships, tankers, supply and store ships. DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35261/pages/5080. BAR TO D.S.O.,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35679/pages/3717.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35382/supplement/7103. Lieutenant-Commander Malcolm David Wanklyn, Royal Navy. On 24th May 1941 in the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, Lieutenant-Commander Wanklyn, commanding HM Submarine Upholder, torpedoed a troopship which was with a strongly protected convoy. The troopship sank and Upholder then endured a strong counter-attack in which 37 depth charges were dropped in 20 minutes, before she got clear. By the end of 1941 Lieutenant-Commander Wanklyn has sunk nearly 140,000 tons of enemy shipping, including a destroyer and troopships, tankers, supply and store ships. DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35261/pages/5080. BAR TO D.S.O.,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35679/pages/3717.