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Skipper. Thomas Crisp VC DSC
Royal Naval Reserve H.M. Smack Nelson
from:Lowestoft, Suffolk
(d.15th Aug 1917)
Thomas Crisp was killed in action on the 15th of August 1917, aged 41. He is Commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial in Kent.
His father was T. W. Crisp, of 41, Stanford St., Lowestoft, Suffolk. The tenor bell at St. Margaret's Church, Lowestoft, is named the "VC Bell" and dedicated to him.
An extract from the London Gazette, No. 30363, dated 30th Oct., 1917, records the posthumous award of V.C. "For service in action with enemy submarines."