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Medal - George Cross Display
Overview
Medal display in World War 2 Gallery - Replica George Cross with photograph of King George VI and a copy of the poem used in the King's Christmas Message, 1939
Historical information
King George VI continued his father's Christmas broadcasts; it was in his 1939 reading delivered in the opening stages of the Second World War that he uttered the famous lines: "I said to the man who stood at the Gate of the Year, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.' This was the opening of the poem God Knows by Minnie Louise Haskins, 1908.
Details
Details
Registration number
cwa-org-32-55-941
Inscriptions and markings
The George Cross (GC) is the highest award bestowed 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 equal in stature to the Victoria Cross, the highest military award for valour. It is awarded "for acts of the greatest heroism or for most conspicuous courage in circumstance of extreme danger",[4] not in the presence of the enemy. The Cross of Valour is now awarded in similar circimstances in the Australian Honours system.
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