5RNCC2 Battle of the Barents Sea Signed 2 involved Capt Wyatt & E Walton GC holder 

31 Dec 88 Plymouth  Battle of the Barents Sea 31st December 1942.As Convoy JW 51 B Steamed towards Murmansk two German Squadrons  closed in to attack. HMS Onslow leading the Convoy's Destroyer escort bore. The brunt of theGerman Cruiser Admiral Hipper's fire, Heavily damaged, she gallantly remained on station to defend the convoy against further attacks, which reached Russia unscathed. Picture cachet on HMS Onslow  built by John Brown.Completed 8 10 1941. Flotilla Leader, 17th Destroyer Flotilla.

Personally Signed by Captain P J Wyatt CBE DSC RN ( Flotilla Navigation Officer ) and Signed by T/Lt E W K Walton GC DSC RN ( Engineer Officer.) George Cross Holder Account of Deed, At about 12 noon on 24th August 1946, while on a sledging journey, a member of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey Team fell through a badly bridged crevasse and disappeared. He had fallen some 40 feet and was jammed in a narrow part of the crevasse. Ropes were lowered to him but he could not get them round himself  properly and it was impossible to pull him up as he was jammed in the ice.Lieutenant Walton volunteered to be lowered into the crevasse to free him. It was not possible to use an Ice axe in the restricted space, so a spike was sawn off and used as a hand tool to chip away at the ice. After three hours, during which period Lieutenant Walton had been lowered down the crevasse five times, gradually working his way alond, he reached the trapped man and freed him so that he could be pulled to the surface.  RNCC Ref No 5 RNCC2 . Certified Copy No 46   of 199.£

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