Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35566/pages/2225. Lieutenant-Commander Stephen Halden Beattie, Royal Navy. On 27th March 1942, in the attack on St Nazaire, France, Lieutenant-Commander Beattie was in command of HMS Campbeltown. Under intense fire directed on the bridge from a range of about 100 yards, and in the full blinding glare of many searchlights, the lieutenant-commander steamed Campbeltown into the lock gates, as instructed, and beached and scuttled her in the correct position. The Victoria Cross was awarded not only in recognition of Lieutenant-Commander Beattie's own valour, but also of the unamed officers and men of the ship's company, many of whom did not survive.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35566/pages/2225. Lieutenant-Commander Stephen Halden Beattie, Royal Navy. On 27th March 1942, in the attack on St Nazaire, France, Lieutenant-Commander Beattie was in command of HMS Campbeltown. Under intense fire directed on the bridge from a range of about 100 yards, and in the full blinding glare of many searchlights, the lieutenant-commander steamed Campbeltown into the lock gates, as instructed, and beached and scuttled her in the correct position. The Victoria Cross was awarded not only in recognition of Lieutenant-Commander Beattie's own valour, but also of the unamed officers and men of the ship's company, many of whom did not survive.