GEORGE MEDALS
Investiture By King
(British Official Wireless, i (Received May 29, 7.5 p.m.) RUGBY, May 28.
The first person to be decorated by the King with the George Medal is Mrs. Dorothy Clarke, an ambulance driver of Aldeburgh, Suffolk. The investiture tit Buckingham Palace was the first at which the King has bestowed George Medals and 195 recipients of the award, including ten women, attended. The other nine women included a junior nurse, an air raid warden and a supervising telephonist. Among the 185 men were officers and men of th.: three fighting services and many A.R.P. workers and firemen.
At the same investiture a soldier, a sailor, a special constable and an A.R.P. engineer was decorated with the George Cross.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 208, 30 May 1941, Page 8
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