GEORGE CROSS AWARD
BOMB EXPERT
"CONSPICUOUS COURAGE"
(British Official Wireless.) (Received January 4, 1 p.m.)
RUGBY, January 3.
The King has approved the award of the George Cross to Mr. Leonard Henry Harrison, instructor at an armament training school, "for conspicuous courage and devotion to duty in circumstances of exceptional danger."
Mr. Harrison: has slaown exceptional coolness and courage on several occasions. Early last year a ship arrived in port with an unexploded German bomb wedged half-way through the main deck. The bomb was fitted witn a fuse of a then unknown type.. Mr. Harrison assisted in rendering it harmless.. About a month-.later he again gave similar assistance in 'rendering safe unexploded German bombs.
Mr. Harrison's assistance was of particular value on these occasions as, through his own initiative and private study, he has become an authority on the fuse-and exploder systems in German bombs. . r
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 3, 4 January 1941, Page 9
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