William Hiscock

Lieutenant (Acting Lieutenant‑Commander) William Ewart Hiscock GC, DSC (13 January 1886 - 15 February 1942) of HMS St Angelo (Malta) was posthumously awarded the George Cross for the "great gallantry and undaunted devotion" he displayed in September 1941 in attempting to defuse a novel Italian ‘Torpedo Machine’ in St George's Bay, Malta.

George Cross citation
His award was published in the London Gazette on 16 June 1942:

Death
Lieutenant Commander William Ewart Hiscock, DSC, and his wife Alice Beatrice Hiscock were killed when by an enemy bomb landed directly on their home in St George’s Barracks on 15 February 1942.