negative - War Office photograph of Boy Melville Searle Thompson, the 17 year old Southampton boy who received the George Medal. He joined the Ordnance Survey Battalion of the in October 1939. Melville was educated at Itchen Secondary and played for the Cricket XI and the Soccer Team. He hopes to make the Army his career. His father is a Civil Servant and was in the last war and was wounded in the Palestine Campaign while serving with the 4th Hants. He lives at Bittern. "It was my first experience of bombing" Melville said in the course of an interview. "I was on picket duty". "I don't kn
negative - War Office photograph of Boy Melville Searle Thompson, the 17 year old Southampton boy who received the George Medal. He joined the Ordnance Survey Battalion of the in October 1939. Melville was educated at Itchen Secondary and played for the Cricket XI and the Soccer Team. He hopes to make the Army his career. His father is a Civil Servant and was in the last war and was wounded in the Palestine Campaign while serving with the 4th Hants. He lives at Bittern. "It was my first experience of bombing" Melville said in the course of an interview. "I was on picket duty". "I don't know how long I played the hose, as I had broken my watch. I can't make out how I received this Award" he said modestly, "I only did what anyone else would have done in similar circumstances. It was a case of somebody having to go into the building and I just went in." , British Army
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