George Cross

George Cross

The George Cross is the second highest award of the United Kingdom honours system awarded "for acts of the greatest heroism or for most conspicuous courage in circumstance of extreme danger", not in the presence of the enemy, to members of the British armed forces and to British civilians.

George Cross People (First 18 people) - Page 0

Peter Danckwerts

Peter Danckwerts

Chemical engineer

Matthew Croucher

Matthew Croucher


Violette Szabo

Violette Szabo

British-French spy

Hugh Seagrim

Hugh Seagrim

British officer

F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas

F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas

Military personnel

P. G. Taylor

P. G. Taylor

Author

Harry Day

Harry Day

Pilot

Barbara Jane Harrison

Barbara Jane Harrison

British flight attendant

Gordon Taylor

Gordon Taylor

English former football player

Peter Norton

Peter Norton

British military officer

Roger Goad

Roger Goad

Explosives officer

Robert Nairac

Robert Nairac


Michael Willetts

Michael Willetts


Noor Inayat Khan

Noor Inayat Khan

British espionage agent

Odette Hallowes

Odette Hallowes


Charles Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk

Charles Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk


Odette Sansom

Odette Sansom


Edmund Abbott

Edmund Abbott