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Major. Francis John William Harvey VC.

Royal Marine Light Infantry HMS Lion

from:Sydenham, Surrey

(d.31st May 1916)

Francis John William Harvey was killed in action on 31st of May 1916, aged 43. he is Commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial in Kent.

An extract from The London Gazette, No. 29751, dated 15th Sept., 1916, records the following:- "Whilst mortally wounded and almost the only survivor after the explosion of an enemy shell in "Q" gunhouse, with great presence of mind and devotion to duty ordered the magazine to be flooded, thereby saving the ship. He died shortly afterwards."



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