MAILLARD, William Job
Surgeon. Royal Navy.
London Gazetted on the 2nd December, 1898.
Born on 10th March 1863 at Banwell, Axbridge, Somerset.
Died on 10th September 1903 at Bournemouth, Hampshire.
Memorials on grave at Wimborne Cemetery, Dorset and at the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, Hampshire.
Digest of Citation reads:
On the 6th September 1898, during the landing of men from HMS Hazard, at Candia, Crete, Surgeon Maillard, having disembarked and reached a place of safety, returned through a hail of fire, to the boat. He endeavoured to bring to safety Ordinary Seaman Arthur Stroud, who fell wounded into the boat as the other men landed onshore. He failed to bring the wounded seaman in, only because the boat had been cut adrift and it was beyond his strength to lift Stroud, who was almost dead, from the unstable platform. Surgeon Maillard returned to his post unhurt, even though his clothes were riddled with bullet-holes.
Additional information: Staff Surgeon Maillard was the first and only Naval Medical Officer, to date, to be awarded the Victoria Cross.