Cecil Pugh
RAF Chaplain and recipient of the George Cross
Died when: 42 years 245 days (512 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Herbert Cecil Pugh, GC (2 November 1898 – 5 July 1941), usually called Cecil Pugh, was a Congregational Church minister and was the only clergyman to have received the George Cross.
He was a South African who served in the First World War as a South African Army medical orderly and in the Second World War as a Royal Air Force chaplain.
Pugh died in 1941 by remaining aboard a sinking troop ship to minister to trapped and wounded military personnel.
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