GEORGE MEDALS
THE FIRST INVESTITURE
RUGBY, May 28
The first person to be decorated by the King with the George Medal was Mrs. Dorothy Clarke, an ambulance driver of Aldeburgh, Suffolk. The investiture at Buckingham Palace was the first at which the King 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 the 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 were decorated with the George Cross.—B.O.W. !
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 126, 30 May 1941, Page 7
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