"Sherbrooke" ADM 1/1412

That Your Majesty may be pleased to approve the award of the

VICTORIA CROSS to

Captain Robert St. Vincent SHERBROOKE, D.S.O.

For outstanding valour, determination and leadership In Command of H.M.S. ONSLOW and as Captain (D) 17.

Captain Sherbrooke, as Senior Officer of four destroyers which comprised the (striking force) protecting a convoy, without hesitation led the ships under his command into action against a superior enemy force consisting of a cruiser and two or three destroyers which endeavouring to attack the Convoy.