Recognition after an observer's low-altitude attack

Was the observer in the low-altitude attack anecdote reprimanded?

He is described as receiving a medal and later reaching senior rank; his identity and exact decoration are not established.

The preceding anecdote concerns an observer helping recover an aircraft after its pilot was injured and completing an extremely low attack. A follow-up asks whether the observer was reprimanded. The account credits him with a medal and later senior naval rank. Neither his identity nor the medal is named, and whether he received a Victoria Cross is explicitly recalled with uncertainty.