Jack Maynard Cholmondeley Easton

Lieutenant Jack Maynard Cholmondeley Easton of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve was awarded the George Cross for his gallantry in defusing a bomb which had fallen on Hoxton, in the East End of London, during the Blitz on the 17th of October 1940. Notice of his award appeared in the London Gazette on the 23rd of January, 1941 [http://www.ww2awards.com/person/308] . Later in the war he skippered armed trawlers and minesweepers. Born on the 28th of May in 1906 he was educated at Pangbourne College and was a solicitor by profession. He died on the 29th of November, 1994 in Chichester in Sussex. [http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RNVR_officersE.html]