My True Story: Standing Alone

Real people living through history’s most turbulent times . . . He was only fi fteen when he enlisted in the navy without his father’s permission. He was only sixteen when he died at Grimsby General Hospital with splinters of steel in his chest. The Battle of Jutland was the biggest sea battle since the Armada. Jack Cornwell was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for staying, seriously wounded, at his post on the HMS Chester.