Chief Petty Officer Reginald Vincent Ellingworth, GC (28 January 1898 – 21 September 1940) was a sailor in the Royal Navy. Ellingworth was born in Wolverhampton, Staffordshire to Frank and Kate Louise. He was posthumously awarded the

George Cross The George Cross (GC) is the highest award bestowed by the British government for non-operational gallantry or gallantry not in the presence of an enemy. In the British honours system, the George Cross, since its introduction in 1940, has been ...

for the "great gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty" he displayed while attempting to defuse a parachute mine that had fallen in

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, Essex, during the Blitz, along with Lieutenant Commander Richard John Hammersley Ryan and Dick Moore. Notice of his award appeared in a supplement to the ''

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'' of 17 December 1940.The George Cross at Sea, 1939–45
/ref> The soldiers had defused many such devices together, and had just successfully defused a device in Hornchurch which was threatening an aerodrome and explosives factory when they were called to Dagenham. The bomb there was hanging from its parachute on a warehouse.Casualty details — Ellingworth, Reginald Vincent
Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 2008-02-13 He is buried at Milton Cemetery, Portsmouth. He was married to Rose Ward until her death in 1925. He remarried Jessie Day Phillips.

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