Lieutenant George Henry Osborne
AA Det. & 100th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery

Military Cross	1914 Star & Clasp	Medalla de la Solidaridad, Panama*

Ex-BSM 3279 RGA. Commissioned as Second Lieutenant 12/12/1919. Resident at Platte Saline House, Alderney. Husband of Marie Adelaide Le Cornu.

Military Cross citation, London Gazette no.29713, 17/12/1920:

3279 by. S./M. George Henry Osborne, R.G.A.

For conspicuous and consistent gallantry
when his battery has been heavily shelled.
He has set a fine example.

Panama Solidarity medal (Bronze, 3rd Class) was confirmed awarded in LG 31783, 13/02/1920.

*The Republic of Panama joined the Great War in 1917, and its active participation was limited, but in 1918 it did issue this medal to express its solidarity with the other Allies' armed forces and what the medal calls "la guerra del derecho", `the war of justice'. It was awarded in gold to commanders-in-chief of the Allied armies, in silver to generals and senior officers, and in bronze, albeit silvered bronze as this example makes clear, for other ranks. Awards of this medal made to British soldiers were recorded in The London Gazette; it appears that only a hundred medals or so were given to each Allied country, so the number even of bronzes must have been quite small.

Awarded: To members of Allied forces during Panama's participation in WW1 (having declared war on Germany on 7 April 1917).

Grades: 3 (Gold, Silver and Bronze).

George Henry Osborne on the right