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  • Francis Brooke-Smith
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  • Lieutenant-Commander Frances Haffey Brooke-Smith GC (21 September 1918 – 3 December 1952) was Royal Navy Reserve bomb disposal officer awarded the George Cross for 'great gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty' whilst defusing enemy bombs during The Blitz in 1940.
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honorific suffix
  • GC
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Birth Date
  • 1918-09-21
Branch
  • Reserve
death place
  • Hasketon, near Woodbridge, Suffolk
Name
  • Frances Haffey Brooke-Smith
Birth Place
  • Hasketon, near Woodbridge, Suffolk
Awards
  • 30
death date
  • 1952-12-03
Rank
  • Lieutenant-Commander
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placeofburial
  • St Andrew Churchyard, Hasketon
abstract
  • Lieutenant-Commander Frances Haffey Brooke-Smith GC (21 September 1918 – 3 December 1952) was Royal Navy Reserve bomb disposal officer awarded the George Cross for 'great gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty' whilst defusing enemy bombs during The Blitz in 1940.