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After more than a year on the run in northern Italy, New Zealand prisoner of war David Russell was recaptured and executed in February 1945. His courage in the face of death earned him the first George Cross awarded to a member of New Zealand’s military.
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National Army Museum, New Zealand
Reference: 1998.954
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