My uncle went down with the British vessel he has serving on. When the war was over, the British awarded Malta the George Cross Medal. They also, without any consent and consultation with the ...

Rather than a personal gift or a symbol that could be subject to misinterpretation, the British government decided to award Malta a unique mark of honour: the George Cross. This award, typically ...

The Maltese government has presented a diplomatic protest with the United Kingdom, over a Conservative MP’s motion to repeal the George Cross medal from the ... to repeal the George Cross medal, ...

That was when Malta was a colony. The Independence and Republic constitutions retained the George Cross in another form, with Prime Minister Dom Mintoff, in 1974, making the removal of the medal ...