James Nightall and Frank Bridges were killed but Ben survived to be awarded the George Cross and also the LNER Silver medal for Courage and Resource and the Daily Herald Order of Industrial Heroism.

Miss Townsend was honoured with the Empire Gallantry Medal - also known as the George Cross - by King George V in 1933, which on Wednesday was sold to a German private collector of medals for £ ...

Controversial Open Society Foundations founder George Soros and 18 others are recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom ...

A PETITION calling for the pensioner who tried to stop the murderous attack on Labour MP Jo Cox to be honoured with the George Cross gathered momentum yesterday, with thousands of signatories backing ...

Before the introduction of the George Cross during World War Two, the Albert Medal represented the key decoration or award ...