A Victoria Cross awarded to a brave World War One naval gunboat commander who died while leading a charge under fire could fetch £220,000 at auction.
Lieutenant-Commander Edgar Cookson was killed by Turkish marksmen while trying to force his way through enemy lines during advances on the city of Kut, in Iraq.
He had been ordered to inspect and destroy an enemy obstruction placed on the Tigris River in his steam-powered boat, named Comet, on September 28, 1915.
But when he and other navy vessels approached the blockage, they were ambushed by a volley of heavy rifle and machine-gun fire from both sides of the bank.
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