On 15 April 1942 King George VI awarded the people of Malta the George Cross to honour their endurance of the Siege. The picture show the GC being presented by Governor General and Commander-in-Chief in Malta, Field Marshal John Gort, VC.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
People of Malta
Commemorated ati
Malta Siege
The solid block of stone for the memorial came from Gozo, one of the three in...
Other Subjects
William Patrick Seal Moon
William Patrick Seal Moon was born on 18 October 1914 in Malta, the eldest of the four children of William James Moon (1891-1967) and Sarah Queenie Moon née Ruark (1894-1954). At the time of his bi...
War dead non-military, WW2
1 memorial
Field Marshal, Viscount Gort, VC
Army officer. Born John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort at 24 Chesham Place, London. He served with the Grenadier Guards in World War I and was awarded the Victoria Cross in...
War served, WW1
3 memorials
Flight Lieutenant Henry Forster Withy
Henry Forster Withy was born on 10 October 1910 in West Hartlepool, Durham, the elder son of Henry Daubeny Withy (1882-1914) and Emily Edith Withy née Wilson (1879-1932). His birth was registered i...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
George Cross Island Association
From the picture source website: "The association came into being to commemorate and bring together veterans and families of the Siege of Malta (1940 to 1943)."
1 memorial
H. M. Bateman
Cartoonist. Born Henry Mayo Bateman at Moss Vale, Sutton Forest, New South Wales, Australia. His family moved to Britain in 1888, where he studied at Westminster School of Art and Goldsmiths' Colle...
1 memorial
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Edgar Myles VC
E6, High Street South, East Ham Central Park
The Victoria Cross plaques are located on the grass by the memorial. and can be seen in the bottom right of our photograph. Regarding Ce...
War served | WW1
2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
2 subjects commemorated, 1 creator
Galileo Galilei
Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. Born Pisa, Italy. His improvements to the telescope enabled him to make new important astronomical observations which supported Copernicus’s...
2 memorials
1 memorial
Thomas McConvey
Role on the lost expedition: Able seaman on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.
1 memorial
Maurice Wilkins
Molecular biologist. Born New Zealand. Worked on DNA X-ray diffraction studies 1953 at King's College London with Franklin, Gosling, Stokes and Wilson. 1962 awarded a Nobel Prize with Crick and Wa...
2 memorials
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