Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE, VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29752/supplements/9085. The KING has been graciously please to approve the grant of the Victoria Cross to Boy First Class, John Travers Cornwell, O.N.J. 42563 (died 2nd June 1916), for the conspicuous act of bravery specified below. On 31st May 1916, at the Battle of Jutland, Boy First Class Cornwell, of HMS Chester was mortally wounded early in the action, but he remained standing alone at a most exposed post, quietly awaiting orders, until the end of the action, with the gun's crew dead and wounded all round him. His age under sixteen and a half years.
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Gazette Information: GAZETTE ISSUE, VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29752/supplements/9085. The KING has been graciously please to approve the grant of the Victoria Cross to Boy First Class, John Travers Cornwell, O.N.J. 42563 (died 2nd June 1916), for the conspicuous act of bravery specified below. On 31st May 1916, at the Battle of Jutland, Boy First Class Cornwell, of HMS Chester was mortally wounded early in the action, but he remained standing alone at a most exposed post, quietly awaiting orders, until the end of the action, with the gun's crew dead and wounded all round him. His age under sixteen and a half years.