Jack Cornwall

The ship was attacked by four German Cruisers and suffered 30 killed and 32 severely wounded; including Jack Cornwall, the boy V.C. Owen was awarded the MBE at the end of the war.His last post was as Surgeon Rear Admiral in Charge of the Naval Hospital in Malta.Leslie went into the navy as a gunnery officer, rising to the rank of Vice Admiral.During his long career he was appointed the captain of the Royal Naval College at Greenwich, when Prince Philip the new husband of the then Princess Elizabeth, was doing his ‘long course' as a young naval officer.The college was housed in the same buildings, where his Great, Great, Great Grandfather, the boatswain's mate, had been a pensioner 150 years before.