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Bombs - Guns - Weapons

Sep. 09, 1971 - The man who Saved at Paul's In 1940 Honoured: This morning Mr. George Wyllie returned to St. Paul's where 31 years ago on the same date he made safe a German bomb which threatened to destroy the Cathedral, and earned the George Corss fro his heroism Mr. Willis, now living at Hemerton, London was sapper in an army bomb-disposal team of the Royal Engineers at the time. In ceremony on St. Paul's Steps this morning the Dean-the very Rev Martin Sullivan presented Mr. Wyllie with a gold Medallion, the first of a series to be minted fro the Save St. Paul's Appeal by Ernest Pojoy and Co. Photo shows Mr. Wyllie is pictured by the replica of the bomb which fell near St. Paul's holding his gold medallion which was presented to him today

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(c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans
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