30 December 1968(1968-12-30) (aged 78) Alton, Hampshire, England
Allegiance
United Kingdom
Service/branch
Royal Navy
Years of service
1905–1946
Rank
Commodore
Commands held
HMS Witch (1926–27) HMS Scarborough (1930–33) HMS Curlew (1936) HMS Emerald (1937–39) Royal Naval College, Greenwich (1939) HMS Emerald (1939–40) HMS Malcolm (1940) HMS Dorsetshire (1941–42) Royal Naval College, Greenwich (1943–46)
Battles/wars
First World War
Gallipoli Campaign
Zeebrugge Raid
Russian Civil War
Baltic Campaign
Second World War
Indian Ocean raid
Awards
Victoria Cross Distinguished Service Order Mentioned in Despatches
Other work
Younger Brother of Trinity House (1936) Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Greenwich (1945) Vice President Sailors' Home and Red Ensign Club (1957) Published: Footprints in the Sea (1959); Showing the Flag (1962); Baltic Episode (1963)
Augustus Willington Shelton Agar, VC, DSO (4 January 1890 – 30 December 1968) was a Royal Navy officer in both the First and the Second World Wars. He was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, for sinking a Soviet cruiser during the Russian Civil War.
In his naval biography, Footprints in the Sea, published in 1961, Agar described himself as "highly strung and imaginative." The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography says that Agar "epitomizes the 'sea dog' of British naval tradition: honourable, extremely brave and totally dedicated to King, country and the Royal Navy."
Augustus Willington Shelton Agar, VC, DSO (4 January 1890 – 30 December 1968) was a Royal Navy officer in both the First and the Second World Wars. He...
torpedo boat outside the harbour on 17 June 1919, in which Lieutenant AugustusAgar's CMB-4 sank the Bolshevik cruiser Oleg. The raid on 18 August 1919 was...
billeted there, mainly in temporary huts which were removed after the war. AugustusAgar was awarded the Victoria Cross while stationed on the island and detailed...
HM Coastal Motor Boat 4 is the torpedo boat used when Lieutenant AugustusAgar earned a Victoria Cross for carrying out a raid on Soviet warships in Kronstadt...
boat. HM Coastal Motor Boat 4 is the torpedo boat used when Lieutenant AugustusAgar earned a Victoria Cross for carrying out a raid on Soviet warships in...
the commander of the force, Lieutenant AugustusAgar, took two CMBs in a raid on Bolshevik ships in Kronstadt. Agar, in Coastal Motor Boat 4, entered the...
of 17 June 1919 by Royal Navy speedboat CMB-4 commanded by Captain AugustusAgar in an attack on the Red Navy facilities at Kronstadt. Parts of the ship...
flotilla of British Coastal Motor Boats under the command of Lieutenant AugustusAgar raided Kronstadt Harbour, sinking the cruiser Oleg and the depot ship...
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Cemetery in Winkleigh. Claude Congreve Dobson - won VC in same action AugustusAgar - won VC in same campaign in similar action Russell Hamilton McBean...
Biography portal Gordon Charles Steele - awarded VC in same action AugustusAgar - took part in the operation, awarded VC for an early action in a CMB...
during the Baltic campaign of 1918–19, and her commander Lieutenant AugustusAgar won the Victoria Cross for sinking the Russian cruiser Oleg on 17 June...
1958), Mrs. Bence's son. Earl of Shrewsbury Duke of Norfolk Baron Petre AugustusAgar, first husband of the fourteenth baroness "No. 28720". The London Gazette...
Vittorio Pozzo, Italian football player and manager (b. 1886) December 30 AugustusAgar, British naval officer, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1890) Trygve Lie...
Cornwell HMS Chester 1916* First World War Battle of Jutland, Denmark AugustusAgar HM Coastal Motor Boat 4 1919 Baltic Campaign Kronstadt, Russia Claude...
quickly prepared as fire ships for the operation under the command of AugustusAgar VC with Morgan Morgan-Giles as his staff officer. Each ship was laden...
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