£93,000 for medals of George Cross Blitz UXB hero who who died in explosion witnessed by his wife and child . Sergeant Michael Gibson sent his men away when he heard bomb hissing ...

The sale eclipses the £86,000 paid last year for a George Cross won by Corporal James Scully, who saved a family trapped in the rubble of their Liverpool home. Follow Daily Mirror: ...

Mr Beaton, 79, was awarded the George Cross for helping to foil a gunman’s attempted kidnap of Princess Anne in 1974, and he was shot three times protecting the Queen’s daughter.