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A sample of
Other people awarded medals in WW2
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Armitage, Mrs
Details: awarded B.E.M., London Ambulance Service - for great resource and courage. |
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Arkell, Fireman Details: awarded G.M., for courage under bomb and machine-gun attack in Bristol raid. |
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Bailey, Albert Details: awarded G.M., Home Guard - for risking his life in helping to save 11 people from a badly bombed factory in Birmingham. |
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Baines, Mr C.A. Details: awarded M.B.E. - PLA., Superintendant - for gallant work in putting out incendiary bombs. |
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Ball, Matron Details: R.R.C., for displaying a fine courage and outstanding abilities. |
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Barr, PC. Douglas Details: awarded G.M., of PLA., for assisting in the removal of the ammuniton to safety during a raid on docks. |
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Batt, Mrs Dorothy Details: awarded B.E.M., for continuous bravery during heavy air raids on Bristol. |
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Baxter, Miss P. Details: award M.B.E. - AFS., for heroic conduct during night raid on Portsmouth, assisting trapped people and cutting off escaping gas. |
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Mr L.J. Details: awarded G.M., of the Gas, Light & Coke Co., for controlling gas amid falling high explosives and incendiaries. |
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Bentley, Lampman, Albert. Details: awarded B.E.M., for gallant conduct during enemy air raids on a railway station. |
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Biggs, Mr Ernest Details: awarded O.B.E. - ARP worker - for gallantry and devotion to duty during a fierce raid which took place in Southampton. |
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Billig, Dr. H. Details: awarded G.M., for attending casualties though suffering from a broken ankle. |
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Bolton, Mrs M.E. Details: awarded G.M., Matron of Sir R. Jeffrey's Home, Eltham, for rescuing 2 old ladies from a burning building. |
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Booth, Mr John William Details: awarded O.B.E., LMS railway porter - for displaying presence of mind in a Sheffield raid. |
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Bradford, Dispatch Rider. S.E.G. Details: awarded G.M., of London APS., for clearing away wreckage until he was overcome by gas fumes. |
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Bradley, Mr John Details: awarded G.M., for assisting Mr Playford in rescuing a Post Warden. |
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Breaks, Dept. Chief. Insp. T. Details: awarded O.B.E., Fire Brigade Div. Home Office - for outstanding work during enemy action fires. |
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Broadberry, Mr H. Details: awarded B.E.M., for saving Polish airmen from crashed and burning plane. |
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Brooks, F.H. Details: awarded B.E.M., employee of the Gas, Light & Coke Co., for gallantry in preventing fires from spreading during a raid. |
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Brown, Nurse M. Details: awarded G.M., for bravery and devotion to duty in various raids on the city of Coventry. |
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Burridge, Mr C.E. Details: awarded G.M., for helping to save a large gas-holder from destruction. Gas was issuing under pressure. |
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Channing, Mr E.C. Details: awarded M.B.E., ARP Warden, for rescue work though wounded in the foot, and handicapped by an artificial arm. |
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Clarke, Mrs Dorothy Details: awarded G.M. - ARP., first woman presented by the King with this medal. |
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Clarke, Oliver Details: awarded B.E.M., Rescue Party, Stoke Newington - for his part in the dangerous rescue with James Ward & Harold Dingle. |