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Jan. 12, 1972 - January 12th, 1972 George Cross for bomb squad major in Ulster Valuable information about the IRA's leading explosive experts had been discovered from their own bombs by the Army's disposal squad, the squad's senior officer, Major George Styles, 43, said yesterday after an announcement that he had been awarded the George Cross. The award is for his bravery in dismantling two highly dangerous bombs in the £2, 500, 000 Europa Hotel in Belfast in October. He said that unexploded bombs were dismantled and then rebuilt to discover how they were made. This yielded a lot of information about the bomb makers. Photo Shows: Major George Styles, who has been awarded the George Cross for disarming terrorist bombs in Ulster, with his wife, Mary at Army headquarters at Lisburn, yesterday

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