GEORGE CROSS
AWARDED TO ARMAMENT EXPERT. MAKING UNEXPLODED BOMBS SAFE. ■ British Official Wireless. I RUGBY, January 3. The King has approved the award of the George Cross to Mr Leonard Henry Harrison, instructor at an armament training school, “fur conspicuous courage and devotion to duty in circuinrtaneos of exceptional danger." Mr Hni’rison has shown exceptional coolness and courage on several occasions. Early last year a ship arrived in port with an unexploded German bomb wedged half-way through the main deck. The bomb was fitted with a fuse of a then unknown type. Mr Harrison assisted in rendering it harmless. About a month later he again gave similar assistance in rendering safe unexploded German bombs Mr Harrison's assistance was of particular value on these occasions a*-' through his own initiative ami private study, he has' become an authority on the fuse and exploded systems in Gt rm.nti bombs
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1941, Page 9
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