Benjamin Gimbert
(1903-1976)
Engine driver involved in the Soham rail disaster
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Benjamin Gimbert GC (6 February 1903 – 6 May 1976), an engine driver with the LNER was awarded the George Cross and the Order of Industrial Heroism, as was his fireman James Nightall, whose award was posthumous, for saving an ammunition train from a fire on 2 June 1944 during the Soham rail disaster.
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6 February 1903 Ely, Cambridgeshire, England
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| Died |
6 May 1976 (aged 73) March, Cambridgeshire, England
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| Zodiac | Aquarius |
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