Francis Victor Wallington MC & Three Bars (16 October 1891 – 15 February 1971) was a decorated British Army officer.
[2] Early in the First World War, Wallington served as a soldier in the Royal Artillery, British Army, and reached the rank of serjeant.
[3] On 2 October 1917, he was promoted to acting captain while he served as second-in-command of a battery of the Royal Field Artillery.
Later, he brought a trench mortar forward to an exposed position under heavy fire.The citation for his second Military Cross read as follows: For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty.
A fire having broken out in a neighbouring battery's gunpits, he volunteered to extinguish it, which he succeeded in doing, working all the time under heavy shell fire.The citation for his third Military Cross read as follows: For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in rushing to a dug-out in which men had been buried by shell fire and attempting to dig out the men, aided by two other officers.
He himself was in a state of collapse, but insisted on helping to carry the wounded to a dressing station under shell fire.The citation for his forth and final Military Cross read as follows: For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty under close enemy machine-gun fire.