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Jack Cornwell - Wikipedia. John Travers Cornwell. VC (8 January 1. 90. Having died at the age of only 1. Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
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Cornwell is the third- youngest recipient of the VC after Andrew Fitzgibbon and Thomas Flinn. Early life. His parents were Eli and Alice Cornwell. The family later moved to Alverstone Road, East Ham. He left Walton Road School at the then standard age of 1. Boy Scouts. At the outbreak of the First World War, ex- soldier Eli Cornwell volunteered for service and was fighting in France under Lord Kitchener. The older brother Arthur also served in an infantry regiment in Flanders.
In October 1. 91. Jack Cornwell gave up his job as a delivery boy and enlisted in the Royal Navy, without his father's permission. He had references from his headmaster and employer. He carried out his basic training at HMS Vivid.
Keyham Naval Barracks at Plymouth and received further training as a Sight Setter or Gun Layer and became Boy Seaman First Class. On the Easter Monday of 1. Cornwell left for Rosyth, Scotland to join his assignment in the navy. He was assigned to HMS Chester . Battle of Jutland. At 1. 7: 3. 0 hours, the Chester soon came under intense fire from four Kaiserliche Marine cruisers each her own size which had suddenly emerged from the haze and increasing funnel smoke of the battlefield. The shielded 5. 5- inch gun mounting where Cornwell was serving as a sight- setter was affected by at least four nearby hits.
The Chester's gun mountings were open- backed shields and did not reach down to the deck. Splinters were thus able to pass under them or enter the open back when shells exploded nearby or behind. All the gun's crew were killed or mortally injured except Cornwell, who, although severely wounded, managed to stand up again and remain at his post for more than 1. Chester retired from the action with only one main gun still working.
Chester had received a total of 1. Nevertheless, the situation on deck was dire. Many of the gun crews had lost lower limbs due to splinters passing under the gun shields. British ships report passing the Chester to cheers from limbless wounded gun crew laid out on her deck and smoking cigarettes, only to hear that the same crewmen had died a few hours later from blood loss and shock. After the action, ship medics arrived on deck to find Cornwell the sole survivor at his gun, shards of steel penetrating his chest, looking at the gun sights and still waiting for orders. Being incapable of further action, Chester was ordered to the port of Immingham.
There Cornwell was transferred to Grimsby General Hospital, although he was clearly dying. He died on the morning of 2 June 1. Victoria Cross. Though at first reluctant, the Admiralty eventually decided to recommend Cornwell for a posthumous Victoria Cross and King George V endorsed it. The recommendation for citation from Admiral David Beatty, reads. I regret that he has since died, but I recommend his case for special recognition in justice to his memory and as an acknowledgement of the high example set by him. Mortally wounded early in the action, Boy, First Class, Jack Travers Cornwell remained standing alone at a most exposed post, quietly awaiting orders, until the end of the action, with the gun's crew dead and wounded all round him. His age was under sixteen and a half years.
Salisbury made a portrait of Cornwell, using his brother Ernest as a model, depicting him standing in his post. Boy Cornwell Memorial Fund was also established. After that, the rest of the family was effectively forgotten. After Eli Cornwell's death on 2.
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October 1. 91. 6, his stepbrother Arthur Frederick Cornwell was killed in action in France on 2. August 1. 91. 8. Impoverished Alice Cornwell died at Stepney on 3. October 1. 91. 9 at 7. Commercial Road in rooms she was forced to take when her son's memorial fund refused financial aid at the age of 4. The two of her children remaining at home were granted .
Jack Cornwell's elder half- sister, also named Alice, loaned Jack's Victoria Cross to the Imperial War Museum on 2. November 1. 96. 8.
Salisbury's portrait of Cornwell hangs in the Anglican church within the Royal Navy's Initial Training Establishment HMS Raleigh, perhaps selected as an appropriate place also because the ship's Chaplain, The Rev. Cyril Ambrose Walton, was also killed during the action. There, a community of cottage homes was built for needy, disabled or infirm former sailors and Royal Marines, up to and including the rank of Warrant Officer and their families. The six semi- detached houses and pathways are laid out in the form of a Victoria Cross.
Since 2. 00. 8, the community has been under the trusteeship of The Royal Naval Benevolent Trust. It is awarded to youth members in respect of pre- eminently high character and devotion to duty, together with great courage and endurance. Newham (Cornwell VC) Sea Cadets have been honoured with 'J T Cornwell VC' on their cap ribbon (Cap Tally) instead of the customary TS (training ship). They are the only Sea Cadet Unit in the UK to have this honour. In 2. 00. 3 the Cadets suggested commemorating him by renaming a school in Leyton after him.
Jack Cornwell is also remembered by Royal Navy Combined Cadet Force divisions, such as the RN CCF section at Whitgift School, Croydon, which is named the . In Jack Cornwell Street there is a public house called . There is also a Mount Chester (3,0. Alberta, named after HMS Chester in 1. National Heritage List for England.
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