Cecil Pugh
Military Person
1898 – 1941
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Who was Cecil Pugh?
Herbert Cecil Pugh, GC, MA, usually called Cecil Pugh, was a Congregational Church minister and is 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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