The citation for his VC praised his “conspicuous bravery” for
overcoming “great navigational difficulties” and the “hourly
danger of attack from the enemy”. E14’s entire crew of 30 received
Distinguished Service Medals. Boyle, aged 27 at the time of his decoration,
was run over by a lorry and died in 1967.
A later captain of E14, Lt-Cdr Geoffrey Saxon White, also won the VC in the
Dardanelles. But he was decorated posthumously after an operation in these
waters resulted in the submarine being abandoned in January 1918. Its
location remained unknown until this month, when the vessel became the first “E”
class submarine ever to be discovered intact.
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