Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36390/supplement/901. Lieutenant Basil Charles Godfrey Place, D.S.C., Royal Navy. On 22nd September 1943 at Kaafjord, North Norway, Lieutenant Place, commanding Midget Submarine X.7, and another Lieutenant commanding Midget Submarine X.6, carried out a most daring and successful attack on the German Battleship Tirpitz. The two submarines had to travel at least 1,000 miles from base, negotiate a mine field, dodge nets, gun defences and enemy listening posts. Having eluded all these hazards they finally placed the charges underneath the ship where they went off an hour later, doing so much damage that Tirpitz was out of action for months. DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36001/supplement/2005. CROSS OF VALOUR,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35449/supplement/654
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36390/supplement/901. Lieutenant Basil Charles Godfrey Place, D.S.C., Royal Navy. On 22nd September 1943 at Kaafjord, North Norway, Lieutenant Place, commanding Midget Submarine X.7, and another Lieutenant commanding Midget Submarine X.6, carried out a most daring and successful attack on the German Battleship Tirpitz. The two submarines had to travel at least 1,000 miles from base, negotiate a mine field, dodge nets, gun defences and enemy listening posts. Having eluded all these hazards they finally placed the charges underneath the ship where they went off an hour later, doing so much damage that Tirpitz was out of action for months. DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36001/supplement/2005. CROSS OF VALOUR,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35449/supplement/654