VICTORIA CROSS
A bold attack on a Japanese destroyer resulted in Robert Gray being the last World War Two recipient of the Victoria Cross, as Graham Pitchfork explains
ROBERT ‘HAMMY’ GRAY
Robert ‘Hammy’ Gray was born in British Columbia and enlisted with the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve as an ordinary seaman in August 1940. He began training as a pilot in December and joined his first squadron in March 1942.