Awards of the George Cross
Published on 3. October 2010
192 pages
978-1-78340-981-5 (ISBN)
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Early in WW2, King George VI was deeply impressed by the heroic deeds of servicemen out of the front line and civilian non-combatants in acts connected with the war such as bomb disposal and rescues after air raids. So in September 1940 the King instituted the George Cross for For Gallantry away from the heat of actual battle, to be awarded to civilians and servicemen and women. As the war progressed, the range of deeds increased. In April 1942 the unprecedented award of the GC was made to the entire population of the Island of Malta to honor her brave people. Later the award was made for supreme gallantry to members of the Special Operations Executive, including Violette Szabo and Forest Yeo-Thomas (The White Rabbit). Many were posthumous. The George Cross continued to be awarded in the post war years and up to the present day, and this fine books covers all of these.
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Awards of the George Cross
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John Frayn Turner is a distinguished historian and author. Pen and Sword have published numerous of his books, including VCs of the Second World War, Service Most Silent and Periscope Patrol. He lives at Leatherhead, Surrey.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- George Cross Recipients
- Chapter One - 1940
- Flight Lieutenant John Noel Dowland AND Leonard Henry Harrison, CIVILIAN ARMAMENT INSTRUCTOR, RAF MANBY
- Second Lieutenant Wallace Launcelot Andrews, ROYAL ENGINEERS
- Squadron Leader Eric Lawrence Moxey, RAF VOLUNTEER RESERVE
- Aircraftman Vivian Hollowday
- Lieutenant Bertram Stuart Trevelyan Archer
- Albert Ernest Dolphin, PORTER
- Dr Arthur Douglas Merriman, EXPERIMENTAL OFFICER
- Temporary Lieutenant Robert Davies, ROYAL ENGINEERS Sapper George Cameron Wylie, ROYAL ENGINEERS
- Thomas Alderson, DETACHMENT LEADER, RESCUE PARTIES
- Harry Errington, FIREMAN, AUXILIARY FIRE SERVICE
- Roy Thomas Harris, AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS ENGINEERS SERVICE
- Lieutenant John MacMillan Stevenson Patton, ROYAL CANADIAN ENGINEERS
- Leonard John Miles, ARP WARDEN
- Lieutenant Commander Richard John Hammersley Ryan, ROYAL NAVY Chief Petty Officer Reginald Vincent Ellingworth, ROYAL NAVY
- Norman Tunna, GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY SHUNTER
- Wing Commander Laurence Frank Sinclair, ROYAL AIR FORCE
- Sub Lieutenant William Horace Taylor, ROYAL NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE
- George Walter Inwood, SECTION COMMANDER, HOME GUARD
- Second Lieutenant Alexander Fraser Campbell, ROYAL ENGINEERS Sergeant Michael Gibson, ROYAL ENGINEERS
- Sub Lieutenant Jack Maynard Cholmondeley Easton, ROYAL NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE Able Seaman Bennett Southwell, ROYAL NAVY
- Sub Lieutenant John Herbert Babington, ROYAL NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE
- Lieutenant Robert Selby Armitage, ROYAL NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE
- Acting Flight Lieutenant Wilson Hodgson Charlton
- Major Herbert John Leslie Barefoot
- Sergeant Raymond Mayhew Lewin
- Special Constable Brandon Moss
- Lieutenant William Marsdel Eastman, ROYAL ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS Captain Robert Llewellyn Jephson-Jones, ROYAL ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS
- Lieutenant Harold Reginald Newgass, ROYAL NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE
- Sub Lieutenant Peter Victor Danckwerts, ROYAL NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE
- Sub Lieutenant John Bryan Peter Duppa-Miller, ROYAL NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE Able Seaman Stephen John Tuckwell, ROYAL NAVY
- Sub Lieutenant Richard Valentine Moore, ROYAL NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE
- William Mosedale, STATION OFFICER AND RESCUE OFFICER, BIRMINGHAM FIRE BRIGADE
- Acting Captain Michael Floud Blaney, CORPS OF ROYAL ENGINEERS
- Sub Lieutenant Geoffrey Gledhill Turner
- Sub Lieutenant Francis Haffey Brooke-Smith, ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE
- Chapter Two - 1941
- Acting Corporal James Patrick Scully, ROYAL PIONEER CORPS
- Lieutenant Ernest Oliver Gidden, ROYAL NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE
- Charles Henry George Howard, EARL OF SUFFOLK AND BERKSHIRE
- Lieutenant Hugh Randall Syme, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE
- Corporal James Hendry, ROYAL CANADIAN ENGINEERS
- Bombardier Henry Herbert Reed, ROYAL ARTILLERY
- Squadron Leader, the Reverend Herbert Cecil Pugh, ROYAL AIR FORCE VOLUNTEER RESERVE
- Lieutenant Commander William Ewart Hiscock, ROYAL NAVY
- Leading Aircraftman Karl Mander Gravell, ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE
- Lieutenant George Herbert Goodman, ROYAL NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE
- Chapter Three - 1942
- Lieutenant Dennis Arthur Copperwheat, ROYAL NAVY
- Leading Aircraftman Albert Matthew Osborne, ROYAL AIR FORCE
- Lieutenant John Stuart Mould, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE
- Apprentice Donald Owen Clarke, MERCHANT NAVY
- Captain Dudley William Mason, MERCHANT NAVY
- Lieutenant William George Foster, HOME GUARD
- Sergeant Graham Leslie Parish, ROYAL AIR FORCE VOLUNTEER RESERVE
- Lieutenant Francis Anthony Blair Fasson, ROYAL NAVY Able Seaman Colin Grazier, ROYAL NAVY
- Chapter Four - 1943
- Major Cyril Arthur Joseph Martin, ROYAL ENGINEERS
- Chief Officer George Preston Stronach, MERCHANT NAVY
- Wing Commander John Samuel Rowlands, ROYAL AIR FORCE VOLUNTEER RESERVE
- Frederick John Cradock, BOILERMAN
- Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Gerald Spooner, ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE
- Private Charles Alfred Duncan, ARMY AIR CORPS PARACHUTE REGIMENT
- Major Andre Gilbert Kempster, ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS
- Lieutenant John Bridge, ROYAL NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE
- Captain Matreen Ahmed Ansari, INDIAN ARMY
- John Alexander Fraser
- Sergeant John Rennie, THE ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS OF CANADA
- Private Joseph Henry Silk, SOMERSET LIGHT INFANTRY
- Captain Douglas Ford, THE ROYAL SCOTS Colonel Lanceray Arthur Newnham, THE MIDDLESEX REGIMENT
- Flight Lieutenant Hector Bertram Gray, ROYAL AIR FORCE
- Chapter Five - 1944
- Captain Jenkin Robert Oswald Thompson, ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS
- Brigadier Arthur Frederick Crane Nicholls, COLDSTREAM GUARDS
- Leslie Owen Fox, LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL HEAVY RESCUE SERVICE
- Richard Arthur Samuel Bywater, FACTORY DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
- Anthony Smith, CIVIL DEFENCE RESCUE SERVICE
- Subedar Subramanian
- Captain Lionel Colin Matthews, AUSTRALIAN MILITARY FORCES
- Benjamin Gimbert, DRIVER, LONDON NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY James William Nightall, FIREMAN, LONDON NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY
- Lieutenant Leon Verdi Goldsworthy, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE
- Air Commodore Arthur Dwight Ross, ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE
- Sowar Ditto Ram, CENTRAL INDIA HORSE (21ST KING GEORGE V'S OWN HORSE), INDIAN ARMOURED CORPS
- Lieutenant St John Graham Young, ROYAL TANK REGIMENT
- Private Benjamin Gower Hardy 22ND AUSTRALIAN GARRISON, AUSTRALIAN MILITARY FORCES Private Ralph Jones 22ND AUSTRALIAN GARRISON, AUSTRALIAN MILITARY FORCES
- Corporal Kenneth Horsfield, THE MANCHESTER REGIMENT, ATTACHED TO THE SPECIAL AIR SERVICE
- Flying Officer Roderick Borden Gray, ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE
- Assistant Section Officer Noor Inayat-Khan, WOMEN'S AUXILIARY AIR FORCE, SECONDED TO WOMEN'S TRANSPORT SERVICE (FANY)
- Major Hugh Paul Seagrim, 19TH HYDERABAD REGIMENT, ATTACHED TO FORCE 136
- Sergeant Arthur Banks, 112 SQUADRON, DESERT AIR FORCE, ROYAL AIR FORCE VOLUNTEER RESERVE
- Captain Simmon Latutin, SOMERSET LIGHT INFANTRY
- Chapter Six - 1945
- Signalman Kenneth Smith, ROYAL CORPS OF SIGNALS
- Sergeant Eric George Bailey, NEW SOUTH WALES POLICE
- Ensign Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo, WOMEN'S TRANSPORT SERVICE (FANY)
- Flight Sergeant Stanley James Woodbridge, ROYAL AIR FORCE VOLUNTEER RESERVE
- Havildar Abdul Rahman, INDIAN ARMY
- Lance Corporal David Russell, 22ND BATTALION, 2ND NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
- Albert Edward Heming, CIVIL DEFENCE RESERVE SERVICE, BERMONDSEY
- Lance Naik Islam-ud-Din, INDIAN ARMY
- Lieutenant George Gosse, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL VOLUNTEER RESERVE
- Wing Commander Forest Frederick Edward Yeo-Thomas, ROYAL AIR FORCE VOLUNTEER RESERVE
- Mrs Sansom: Odette Marie Celine, WOMEN'S TRANSPORT SERVICE (FANY)
- Lieutenant Commander Patrick Albert 0'Leary, ROYAL NAVY
- Frederick Davies, FIREMAN, NATIONAL FIRE SERVICE
- Captain Mahmood Khan Durrani, INDIAN STATE FORCES
- Naik Kirpa Ram, INDIAN ARMY
- Chapter Seven - 1946
- Major Kenneth Alfred Biggs, ROYAL ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS Staff Sergeant Sidney George Rogerson, ROYAL ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS
- Driver Joseph Hughes, ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS
- Squadron Leader Hubert Dinwoodie, ROYAL AIR FORCE VOLUNTEER RESERVE
- Chapter Eight - 1947
- Able Seaman Thomas Raymond Kelly
- Sergeant John Archibald Beckett, ROYAL AIR FORCE
- Chapter Nine - 1950s
- Robert George Taylor, NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE
- Aircraftman 1st Class Ivor John Gillett, ROYAL AIR FORCE, FAR EAST FLYING BOAT WING, SELETAR
- George Anthony Taylor, VULCANOLOGIST
- Lieutenant Terence Edward Waters
- George Campbell Henderson, SUB OFFICER, GIBRALTAR DOCKYARD FIRE SERVICE
- Awang anak Rawang, IBAN TRACKER, JOHORE, FEDERATION OF MALAYA
- Flight Lieutenant John Alan Quinton, DFC, RAF, 228 OPERATIONAL CONVERSION UNIT
- Private Horace William Madden, 3RD BATTALION, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN REGIMENT
- John Bamford, COLLIERY WORKER
- Detective Constable Frederick William Fairfax, METROPOLITAN POLICE FORCE
- Radio Officer David Broadfoot, MERCHANT NAVY
- Fusilier Derek Godfrey Kinne
- John Axon, driver, BRITISH RAIL
- Second Lieutenant Michael Paul Benner, CORPS OF ROYAL ENGINEERS
- Police Constable Henry William Stevens, METROPOLITAN POLICE
- Chapter Ten - 1960 - 1970
- Raymond Tasman Donoghue, TRAM CONDUCTOR
- Chief Petty Officer Jonathan Rogers, ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY
- Michael Joseph Munnelly, JOURNALIST
- Brian Spillett, DETAIL FITTER
- Wallace Arnold Oakes, TRAIN DRIVER
- Police Constable Anthony John Gledhill
- Barbara Jane Harrison, STEWARDESS, BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION
- Chapter Eleven - 1971 - 1977
- Sergeant Michael Willetts, 3RD BATTALION, THE PARACHUTE REGIMENT
- Errol John Emanuel, DISTRICT COMMISSIONER, PAPUA
- Superintendent Gerald Irving Richardson, LANCASHIRE CONSTABULARY Police Constable Carl Walker, LANCASHIRE CONSTABULARY
- Major Stephen George Styles, ROYAL ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS
- James Kennedy, SECURITY OFFICER, BRITISH RAIL ENGINEERING
- Sergeant Murray Ken Hudson, ROYAL NEW ZEALAND INFANTRY REGIMENT
- Inspector James Wallace Beaton, METROPOLITAN POLICE (ROYAL BODYGUARD)
- Captain Roger Philip Goad, EXPLOSIVES OFFICER, METROPOLITAN POLICE
- John Clements, SCHOOLMASTER
- Constable Michael Kenneth Pratt, VICTORIA POLICE, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
- Captain Robert Laurence Nairac, GRENADIER GUARDS
- Chapter Twelve - 1989 - 2009
- Warrant Officer Barry Johnson, ROYAL ARMY ORDNANCE CORPS
- Sergeant Stewart Graeme Guthrie, NEW ZEALAND POLICE
- Royal Ulster Constabulary
- Trooper Christopher Finney, The Blues and Royals of The Household Cavalry Regiment
- Captain Peter Norton, Royal Logistic Corps
- Corporal Mark William Wright, The 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment
- Lance Corporal Matthew Croucher, Royal Marine Reservist
- Appendix
