James Scully

Acting Corporal James Patrick Scully (20 October 1909 – December 1974), originally from Crumlin, Dublin, of the Pioneer Corps, was awarded the George Cross for the valour he displayed on the night of 12th/13th March 1941 in Birkenhead in rescuing people from a bomb damaged building during the Blitz. The citation was published in the London Gazette on 8 July 1941, and reads: Lieutenant C. C. Chittenden was awarded the George Medal for this along with Scully. Medals and Awards Scully was recommended for his G.C. by the Chief Constable and the Mayor of Birkenhead, but the C.O. of 46 Group, Pioneer Corps, Temple Gray, quickly leapt into action on learning of the approval of the award from the G.O.C. Western Command, as recounted in Marion Hebblethwaite's One Step Further - The George Cross: ‘I then heard that Scully was to be presented to the King so I arranged for him to be fitted out by a skilled tailor. He was taken by a Sergeant to Liverpool and put on a train to London.