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Armitage, Robert Selby |
| Date of birth: | March 28th, 1910 (Birling, Kent, Great Britain)
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June 1st, 1982 (Nettlebed, Oxfordshire, Great Britain)
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British |
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GEORGE CROSS
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Temporary Lieutenant
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Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
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Received his award for dismantling an unexploded bomb in Orpington, Kent in Great Britain at 9 October 1940.
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Date of Gazette 27 December 1940.
Later promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander.
Commanded a coaster at the evacuation at Dunkirk.
Robert Armitage's medal group is on display in the Victoria Cross & George Cross Gallery in the Imperial War Museum in London, Great Britain.
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