George Cameron Wyllie,
GC (25 December 1908 – 1 February 1987) of the
Royal Engineers was awarded the
George Cross for the heroism he displayed on 12 September 1940 when a bomb fell near
St Paul's Cathedral in Deans Yard. It took three days to dig the bomb out of soft soil, work made even more dangerous by a fire at a fractured gas main. Wylie and his team placed the recovered bomb on a lorry, which was driven to
Hackney Marshes, where the bomb was detonated, leaving a crater wide.
The citation from a supplement to ''
The London Gazette
''The London Gazette'' is one of the official journals of record or government gazettes of the Government of the United Kingdom, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are ...
'' of 27 September 1940 (dated 30 September 1940) reads:
References
Further reading
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* Jappy, Melanie (2001) Danger UXB Channel Four Books.
External links
Royal Engineers bomb disposal history page
British recipients of the George Cross
British Army personnel of World War II
Royal Engineers soldiers
1987 deaths
1908 births
Bomb disposal personnel
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