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A Victoria Cross awarded to a brave World War One naval gunboat commander who died while leading a charge under fire could fetch £220,000 at auction. Lieutenant-Commander Edgar Cookson was killed by Turkish marksmen while trying to force his way through enemy lines during advances on the city of Kut, in Iraq.
He had been ordered to inspect and destroy an enemy obstruction placed on the Tigris River in his steam-powered boat, named Comet, on September 28, 1915. But when he and other navy vessels approached the blockage, they were ambushed by a volley of heavy rifle and machine-gun fire from both sides of the bank.
The British soldiers attempted to sink the obstruction with their weapons, which local reports from the time suggest was a sailing dhow attached to two other craft. When this failed, Cookson ordered his vessel to be brought alongside the boats and tried to cut through the thick "wire hawsers" ropes connecting them with an axe.
Sadly, he was immediately shot in several places and died within a few minutes. A fellow officer later observed following the tragedy that "there were more bullet holes in him than they cared to count."
A citation in the London Gazette on January 21, 1916, revealed that he had been posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross (VC) for his bravery.
The announcement said: "The King has been graciously pleased to approve of the grant of the Victoria Cross to Lieutenant-Commander Edgar Christopher Cookson, D.S.O., R.N., in recognition of the following act of most conspicuous gallantry during the advance on Kut-el-Amara."
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