“LETTER BOMB” HERO GIVEN GEORGE MEDAL
(N.Z.F.A.—Reuter— Copyright.)
(10 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 3. His Majesty awarded the George Medal to Mr. Hugh Edmund Watts, chief explosives inspector of the Home Office, who dismantled high explosive letter bombs which terrorists have sent to prominent Britons in the past few months.
Mr. Watts on many occasions risked death in a concrete strongroonj at the Home Office where he took to bits a bomb mailed tc General Sir Evelyn Barker, former G.0.C., British troops in Palestine, and reported on the bomb which killed Mr. Rex Farran, brother of Captain Roy Farran, whom a Palestine court acquitted on a charge of murdering a young Jew.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22707, 4 August 1948, Page 7
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111“LETTER BOMB” HERO GIVEN GEORGE MEDAL Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22707, 4 August 1948, Page 7
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