William Hiscock
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William Ewart Hiscock, Template:Postnominals (13 January 1886 – 15 February 1942) was a Royal Navy officer who was 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, during the Second World War.
Hiscock was mentioned in dispatches on 20 September 1918 while serving as a Gunner.[1]
He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross on 14 January 1941 while serving in the bomb disposal division at HMS St Angelo in Malta as a Lieutenant commander on the retired list.[2]
On 3 February 1942. he was awarded the George Cross.[3] The citation read:
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The King has been graciously pleased to approve the award of the George Cross for great gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty to Lieutenant (Acting Lieutenant-Commander) William Ewart Hiscock, D.S.C., R.N. (retired) (to be dated 3rd February, 1942).
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Death
Hiscock and his wife Alice Beatrice Hiscock were killed when an enemy bomb landed directly on their home in St George's Barracks, Malta on 15 February 1942.
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