Jack Maynard Cholmondeley Easton
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Lieutenant Jack Maynard Cholmondeley Easton of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve was awarded the George Cross
George Cross
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 for his gallantry in defusing a bomb which had fallen on Hoxton
Hoxton
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, in the East End of London
London
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, during the Blitz
The Blitz
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 on the 17th of October 1940. Notice of his award appeared in the London Gazette
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 on the 23rd of January, 1941 http://www.ww2awards.com/person/308. Later in the war he skippered armed trawlers and minesweepers. Born on the 28th of May in 1906 he was educated at Pangbourne College
Pangbourne College
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 and was a solicitor by profession. He died on the 29th of November, 1994 in Chichester
Chichester
Chichester is a cathedral city in West Sussex, within the historic County of Sussex, South-East England. It has a long history as a settlement; its Roman past and its subsequent importance in Anglo-Saxon times are only its beginnings...

 in Sussex
Sussex
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. http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RNVR_officersE.html
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