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hector gray wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 early life 2 long distance flight 3 british army aid group 4 references toggle the table of contents hector gray add languages add links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia redirected from hector bertram gray recipient of the george cross for the new zealand jockey see hector gray jockey hector gray born 1911 06 06 6 june 1911 gillingham kent england died 18 december 1943 1943 12 18 aged 32 sham shui prison camp japanese occupied hong kong burial place stanley military cemetery military career allegiance united kingdom branch royal air force rank flight lieutenant service number 561238 44061 unit british army aid group conflicts second world war pacific war battle of hong kong pow japanese occupation of hong kong awards george cross air force medal hector bertram gray gc afm 6 june 1911 18 december 1943 was an officer of the royal air force and a member of the british army aid group who was posthumously awarded the george cross for most conspicuous gallantry in resisting torture after the japanese occupation of hong kong in 1941 1 early life edit gray was born on 6 june 1911 in gillingham kent the son of lionel and adela née duff gray his father was a musician gray joined the royal air force raf as an aircraft apprentice at raf halton 2 long distance flight edit in november 1938 gray then a sergeant pilot with the raf long range development flight was acting as a radio operator mechanic in one of three vickers wellesley bombers that flew non stop for two days from ismailia egypt to darwin australia 7 162 mi 11 525 km setting a world distance record the wellesley s record remained unbroken until november 1945 but it remains the longest by a single engined aircraft gray was awarded the air force medal in recognition of the services he rendered to crews of the two aircraft on the long distance record flight 3 british army aid group edit gray smuggled medicine into the prisoner of war camp to help the many seriously ill prisoners incarcerated there and was a conduit for news from the outside world when the japanese grew suspicious he was tortured and interrogated for six months but refused to divulge the names of fellow officers such as captain douglas ford of the royal scots and colonel lanceray arthur newnham of the middlesex regiment he was executed by firing squad with fellow prisoners on 18 december 1943 and buried in stanley military cemetery in hong kong 4 notice of his award was published in the london gazette on 19 april 1946 5 6 references edit gc holders archived 7 january 2015 at the wayback machine at www rafweb org gallantry archived from the original on 4 march 2016 retrieved 17 may 2013 no 34620 the london gazette 28 april 1939 p 2830 cwgc hector gray george cross database recipient at www gc database co uk no 37538 the london gazette supplement 19 april 1946 p 1967 authority control databases people commonwealth war graves commission retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title hector_gray oldid 1352419586 categories royal air force officers british recipients of the george cross royal air force recipients of the george cross recipients of the air force medal people executed by japan by firing squad royal air force personnel killed in world war ii 1911 births 1943 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