Show Ensign Hero to D Duty ty Is Knighted Long After Death DeathA IA I- I A recent list of nominations nominations f for knights of the Legion of Honor contained contained con con- tamed the name of Ensign Jean Antoine Antoine Antome An- An toine tome Roux who was killed In 1907 trying to open the sluice gates of or orthe the dry dock where the battleship lena Jona was on oo fire C Continued nUnu d explosions s' s from froni th the battleship put the arsenal and part of the city of Toulon in danger and the only way to extinguish the fire was to flood the dock Clock The ensign was wa at work at this when he was cut in two by grapeshot from his own o ship which was shelling the sluice gates to open them Eventually Eventually Eventually ally a shell hell smashed open tITe gates and the lena was flooded The dead numbered and the Injured far more Ensign Roux's bravery has not waited these eighteen years ears to be recognized officially by the French government Among other testimonies testimonies testimonies nies is a torpedo destroyer named after atter him but the minister of marine ma ma- rine M. M Georges visiting Toulon on the anniversary of or the explosion decided to have the additional additional additional addi addi- honor paid to the young of of- of |