Lieutenant (Acting Lieutenant‑Commander) William Ewart Hiscock GC, DSC (13 January 1886 - 15 February 1942) of HMS St Angelo (Malta) was posthumously 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.
Lieutenant (Acting Lieutenant‑Commander) William Ewart Hiscock GC, DSC (13 January 1886 - 15 February 1942) of HMS St Angelo (Malta) was posthumously 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.