Matt Osborne (RAF airman)

Leading Aircraftman Albert Matthew Osborne GC, known as Matt Osborne, of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve was awarded a posthumous George Cross for his "unsurpassed courage and devotion to duty" during German air attacks on Malta.
Among his many acts of valour, he made safe torpedoes in burning aircraft, rescued a pilot from a burning plane and worked to rescue trapped airmen amid heavy enemy bombing. He was killed on 2 April 1942 by an explosion while firefighting in a similarly courageous manner.
He enlisted in the RAF in July 1940.

George Cross citation

His citation was published in the London Gazette on 10 July 1942:
Osborne is buried at the Capuccini Naval Cemetery in Kalkara, Malta.