Barbara Jane Harrison
✓ Source-basedstableBritish flight attendant; recipient of the George Cross
United KingdomLived 1945 to 1968 · aged 22Barbara Jane Harrison GC, known as Jane Harrison, was a British flight attendant who was posthumously awarded the George Cross for her role in the evacuation of BOAC Flight 712.
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Barbara Jane Harrison GC, known as Jane Harrison, was a British flight attendant who was posthumously awarded the George Cross for her role in the evacuation of BOAC Flight 712. She is one of four women to have been awarded the George Cross for heroism, and the only woman awarded the medal on that basis for gallantry in peacetime. The other three female George Cross recipients served with the Special Operations Executive in occupied France during the Second World War.
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