George Cross

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The George Cross awarded to a Second World War heroine Violette Szabo who was tortured and murdered by the Nazis has fetched a record price at auction.

The bravery medal along with four others belonging to her sold for £260,000 within a minute of going on sale in central London.They were bought on behalf of Lord Ashcroft and will go on display at the Imperial War Museum. Pity that the family felt they had
to sell but at least the medals will stay on dispaly in the UK.

Ms Szabo, an Anglo-French undercover agent who was executed at a concentration camp aged just 23 in 1945, was one of four women to be awarded the George Cross, the UK's second highest military honour. 

Its hard to imagine what this brave lady and her comrades endured