Corporal R.P.G. Dunlop, B.E.M.

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Corporal R.P.G. Dunlop was awarded the British Empire Medal.

On two consecutive nights in December, 1940, this airman displayed great devotion to duty and indifference to personal safety during air attacks. On the first nigh he and another airman volunteered to go out and investigate the failure of telephone communications with a particular site and assisted several crews to dispose of incendiary bombs which had fallen nearby, while shrapnel and high explosive bombs were still falling.
On two further occasions he and his companion toured the sites over roads made difficult by masses of debris. In one instance a bomb narrowly missed their van, the steering wheel being torn from the driver’s grasp.
During a heavy raid on the second night Corporal Dunlop rendered valuable assistance in deflating and replacing a balloon which had become badly holed.

Corporal Dunlop was born at Rathmines, Co. Dublin.

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