| 词条 | John Babington (Royal Navy officer) |
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|name= John Herbert Babington |image= |image_size= |alt= |caption= |nickname= |birth_date= {{Birth date|df=yes|1911|2|6}} |birth_place= Tai Chow Foo, China |death_date= {{Death date and age|df=yes|1992|3|25|1911|2|6}} |death_place= West Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire |placeofburial= |allegiance= United Kingdom |branch= Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve |serviceyears= |rank= Lieutenant Commander |servicenumber= |unit= {{HMS|President|shore establishment|6}} |commands= |battles= Second World War
|awards= George Cross Officer of the Order of the British Empire |relations= |laterwork= Headmaster at the Royal Hospital School }}John Herbert Babington, {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GC|OBE}} (6 February 1911 – 25 March 1992) was a British teacher and Royal Navy officer who was awarded the George Cross for "great gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty" in defusing bombs during the Second World War.[1] George CrossFollowing a Luftwaffe air raid on the Royal Navy shore establishment at Chatham Dockyard (HMS Pembroke) Babington defused a bomb which had fallen that was fitted with an anti-withdrawal device. Babington was attached to {{HMS|President|shore establishment|6}} in London. CitationNotice of Babington's George Cross appeared in the London Gazette on 27 December 1940. {{Quotation|The King has been graciously pleased to approve the award of the George Cross for great gallantry and undaunted devotion to duty to:Probationary Temporary Sub-Lieutenant (Sp) John Herbert Babington R.N.V.R.|London Gazette}} Later war careerHe was later appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for gallantry in 1944. Postwar careerBabington became the Headmaster at the Royal Hospital School and the Ashlyns School, Berkhamsted, the first co-educational bilateral school in Hertfordshire. References1. ^WW2 Awards – Babington, John Herbert {{DEFAULTSORT:Babington, John Herbert}} 9 : Officers of the Order of the British Empire|British recipients of the George Cross|Royal Navy recipients of the George Cross|Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II|People educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys|British schoolteachers|1992 deaths|Bomb disposal personnel|1911 births |
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