William Hiscock
William Ewart Hiscock, (13 January 1886 – 15 February 1942) was a Royal Navy officer who was 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, during the Second World War. George Cross citation. His award was published in the "London Gazette" on 16 June 1942: Death. Hiscock and his wife Alice Beatrice Hiscock were killed when an enemy bomb landed directly on their home in St George's Barracks on 15 February 1942. William Hiscock William