Lieutenant (Acting Lieutenant‑Commander) William Ewart Hiscock of HMS St Angelo (Malta) was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the "great gallantry and undaunted devotion" he displayed in September 1941 in attempting to defuse a novel Italian ‘Torpedo Machine’ in St George's Bay, Malta. His award was published in the London Gazette on the 16th of June 1942.[1] He was born on the 13th January 1886, Dorchester and killed during his action.[2]