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WASHBOURN Richard Everley

Lieutenant, Royal Navy, HMS Archilles

CITATION

Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (CB)

Gazetted 27 December 1960, p8890

Distinguished Service Order

Gazetted

Battle of the River Plate, 13 December 1939.  Who, when early in the action several splinters struck the gun director tower, at once killing three men and wounding two others inside the tower, though wounded on the head by a splinter which half stunned him and killed the man behind him, continued to control the main armament with the utmost coolness.  He set a magnificent example to the rest of the Director Tower crew, who all stood to their posts and made light of the incident.  Thus the primary control kept working and secured throughout the action a high rate of hits on the enemy

Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Gazetted 30 December 1949, p35

KNOWN AWARDS

Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (CB)

Distinguished Service Order

Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE)

1939-45 Star

Atlantic Star

Defence Medal

War Medal 1939-45

NOTES

Born 14 February 1910, Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand

Died 8 August 1988, Onekaka, Nelson, New Zealand