Chatillon de Kock, de, Victor Pieter

Date of death:: March 7th, 1943
Mentioned on:: Plymouth Naval Memorial
Service number:: 66564
Nationality:: South African (1910-1961, Union)

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1 November 1940: Temporary Sub-Lieutenant
October 1942: Temporary Lieutenant
1942/1943: Lieutenant

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Mentioned in Dispatches

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Temporary Sub-Lieutenant
Unit:: H.M.S. Glengyle, Royal Navy
Awarded on:: January 8th, 1942

For services during the evacuation of Crete.

Distinguished Service Cross (DSC)

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Temporary Sub-Lieutenant
Unit:: Royal Navy
Awarded on:: March 17th, 1942

For services to the Army in Tobruk.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Period:: Second World War (1939-1945)
Rank:: Temporary Sub-Lieutenant
Unit:: Royal Navy
Awarded on:: June 16th, 1942

For courage, determination and fine seamanship in rescuing men from a torpedoed merchant ship in a lighter, when the weather was rough and the enemy near.

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

Sources

- https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35596/supplement/2645/data.pdf
- https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35409/supplement/178/data.pdf
- South African Naval Forces (Voluntary) (SANF(V) Officers 1939-1945

Chatillon de Kock, de, Victor Pieter

Biography

Mentioned in Dispatches

Distinguished Service Cross (DSC)

Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)

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