Lieutenant Commander Gerard Broadmead Roope VC RN (13 March 1905 – 8 April 1940) was a posthumous British recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest...
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Finnish ice hockey player Roope Tonteri (born 1992), Finnish snowboarder Fay Roope (1893–1961), American actor Gerard Broadmead Roope (1905–1940), British...
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been suggested by a German officer. (For similar cases see Lt Cdr Gerard Broadmead Roope VC RN, recommended by letter from Kapitan zur See Hellmuth Heye...
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ship's siren to start a banshee wail. At 10:10, Lieutenant Commander Gerard Broadmead Roope fired five torpedoes from one mounting at a range of 800 metres...
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Kapitänleutnant F. K. Paul after the St Nazaire raid Lieutenant-Commander Gerard Broadmead Roope VC (1905–1940), whose award was supported by a recommendation and...
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Munthe-Kaas Håkon Nilsen Olav V of Norway Oluf Reed-Olsen Boy Rist Gerard Broadmead Roope Annæus Schjødt Jr. Inge Steensland Skule Storheill Anne Margrethe...
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Edward Fogarty Fegen of HMS Jervis Bay, and to Lieutenant Commander Gerard Broadmead Roope of HMS Glowworm, for similarly defending convoys against hopeless...
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Frederick George Room British Army 1917 First World War Frezenberg Gerard Broadmead Roope Royal Navy 1940 Second World War Vestfjorden Matthew Rosamund British...
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Hipper, inflicting considerable damage, before sinking. Captain Gerard Broadmead Roope earned the first Victoria Cross of the war for his conduct, but...
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