MBE

[lasa73]

Hi all

My grandfather apparently received an MBE in 1973 for bravery in relation to Old Bailey Bomb.  I never knew!  How would I go about finding an article of this.  I have tried google.

Thanks
Lynnette

[stanmapstone]

There are online newspapers and the London Gazette, there may be details, what was his name
Stan

[Alders]

There is something here
http://www.historybytheyard.co.uk/gallantry_list_1970_0n.htm

Ronald James Arnold?

[RJ_Paton]

The London Gazette can be searched here
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/ and if it was Constable Arnold there is  quite a description of the event itself although it says BEM not MBE

[stanmapstone]

Constable Arnold got the BEM, not the MBE, and it was for "Tackled man who had barricaded himself in a house with two large knives despite the effects of CS gas, and who was later convicted of 3 counts of murder at Old Bailey", no mention of the IRA bomb at the Central Criminal Court, i.e. the Old Bailey.

Stan

[dawnsh]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire_Medal

My father-in-law (ex RAF) received one, one of the 'benefits' was for us to be able to marry in St Pauls Cathedral; it wasn't till we got there, they told us it would take place in the crypt. We declined.

[lasa73]

Thanks for all the replies.  He name is John Alfred Stupples - something to do with driving a bus during the old bailey bomb in 1973 - he received the MBE for bravery. :-)

[rolnora]

Is this your grandfather ?
Mr John Stuopples aged 61 from Ramsgate was driving a coachload of children from Margate Kent to look at St Paul's Cathedral when the bomb exploded?

http://the-old-bailey.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/eyewitness-accounts-of-old-bailey.html

[ShaunJ]

I think it was a BEM - see https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/46310/supplement/6819

John Alfred STUPPLES, Driver, East Kent Road Car Company Ltd.