Captain Augustus Willington Shelton Agar, VC, DSO, RN (4 January 1890 – 30 December 1968) was a noted Royal Navy officer in both World War I and World War II and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
In his naval biography, Footprints in the Sea, published in 1961, Agar described himself as "...highly strung and imagi...
More
Captain Augustus Willington Shelton Agar, VC, DSO, RN (4 January 1890 – 30 December 1968) was a noted Royal Navy officer in both World War I and World War II and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
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 Agar was born in Kandy, Ceylon, on 4 January 1890. He was the thirteenth child of John Shelton Agar, an Irishman from County Kerry, who had left his native land in 1860 to become a successful tea planter in Ceylon, taking a pack of foxhounds with him. Agar was brought up in comfortable circumstances in a fine house with...
Less
