Claude Congreve Dobson
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Rear-Admiral Claude Congreve Dobson (VC, DSO) (1 January 1885- 26 June 1940) was an English 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.
Dobson was 34 years old, and a Commander in the Royal Navy serving with the North Russia Relief Force when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC (currently displayed at the National Maritime Museum):
On 18 August 1919 at Kronstadt, Russia, Commander Dobson was in command of the Coastal Motor Boat Flotilla which he led through the chain of forts to the entrance to the harbour. CMB 31 from which he directed the general operations then passed in under heavy machine-gun fire and torpedoed the battleship Andrei Pervozvanny, subsequently returning through heavy fire to the open sea.
[edit] See also
- Gordon Charles Steele - awarded VC in same action
- Augustus Agar - took part in the operation
[edit] References
- Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999)
- The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997)
- Valiant Hearts, Atlantic Canada and the Victoria Cross, by John Boileau, 2005, publishers Nimbus Publishing ltd.
