PERSONALIA
 
Name:  Babington, John Herbert
Date of birth: February 6th, 1911 (Tai Chow Foo, China)
Date of death:  March 24th, 1992
Nationality:  British
     
GEORGE CROSS
Rank: Temporary Sub-Lieutenant
Unit: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (Bomb Disposal)
Action: Received his award for dismantling unexploded bombs in Chatman, Kent, Great Britain in 1940.
Details: Date of Gazette 27 December 1940.
Later promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander.
Commander Babington's medal group is on display in the Victoria Cross & George Cross Gallery in the Imperial War Museum in London, Great Britain.
 
     
COMMANDER OF THE ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE (CBE)
 
     
DEFENCE MEDAL 1939-1945
 
     
WAR MEDAL 1939-1945
 
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