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Already awarded Americas highest decoration for valour
Urban Dasht by David Rowlands
Squadron Leader Malcom Hamilton
HMS Mantis by Ivan Berryman. (APB) NRG570 away in the distanceDHM6796APB. HMS Mantis by Ivan Berryman. An Insect class river gunboat, HMS Mantis took part in operations on the River Tigris in modern day Iraq in World War One. A British Army advance up the Tigris in 1915 took the town of Kut al Amara, but this army of more than 10,000 men were besieged by the Turks here, eventually surrendering in April 1916. With other river gunboats, HMS Mantis had attempted to help break the siege from early March 1916, and