Cecil Pugh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Cecil Pugh

RAF Chaplain and recipient of the George Cross

Date of Birth: 02-Nov-1898

Place of Birth: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Date of Death: 05-Jul-1941

Profession: military personnel, cleric

Nationality: South Africa

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Herbert Cecil Pugh, GC, MA (2 November 1898 – 5 July 1941), 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.