Bernard Charles Lilley. Regulating P.O. Lilley was assigned to HMS Tamar. He received the DSM "For distinguished service during the Defence of Hong Kong and whilst a prisoner of war in enemy hands." Wounded during the fall of Hong Kong, Lilley led a party of sailors into the hills and held out for nearly four weeks before being captured. Born in London, on Feb. 8, 1907, he joined the navy as a Boy 2nd Class aboard HMS Impregnable on 30 May 1923. He later served aboard Valiant (1924-26), Clematis (1927-29), Norfolk (1932-35), and Caledon (1935-36) where he was made an Acting Petty Officer. He became Acting Regulating Petty Officer during April 1936, to serve aboard Leander (1936-37), and was drafted to Tamar in February 1939. Whilst a POW on the books of Drake he was promoted to Master at Arms on 22 July 1942. He then survived the Lisbon Maru and the Japanese camps, and was finally pensioned on 24 May 1947.