Awards & Winners

Norman Douglas Holbrook

Date of Birth 09-July-1888
Place of Birth Southsea
(Hampshire, England)
Nationality United Kingdom
Profession Soldier
Commander Norman Douglas Holbrook VC was a British naval recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award of the British honours system. Holbrook was the first submariner to be awarded the VC and it was the first naval VC gazetted in the First World War.

Awards by Norman Douglas Holbrook

Check all the awards nominated and won by Norman Douglas Holbrook.

1914


Victoria Cross
(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 13th December 1914 as a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy in command of the submarine HMS B11 during the First World War.)