Gordon Bastian
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title:
Gordon Bastian
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Gordon Love Bastian, was an engineering officer in the British Merchant Navy who was awarded the Albert Medal for risking his own life to save other members of the crew of SS Empire Bowman after it was torpedoed on 31 March 1943. In 1971, living recipients of the Albert Medal and Edward Medal were instructed to return their medal and were instead issued with the George Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry awarded to civilians or to military personnel for actions "not in the face of the en
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British sailor
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bastian
date created:
2009-12-08T16:40:05Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T14:34:31Z
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