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During the Second World War, Cardiff was a target for bombing, with the worst night of the Cardiff Blitz on 2 January 1941.

This is a replica of the British Empire Medal awarded to police sergeant Henry George Ginn for his work rescuing survivors. He was on patrol nearby when Neville Street in Grangetown was hit. Sergeant Ginn and his colleague Sergeant Walter Fidoe used their bare hands to dig through the rubble for at least two hours, as bombs continued to fall nearby, to eventually free seven people. Ginn recalled hearing cries for help and was finally drawn to the right spot by a trapped boy singing ‘God Save the King’.

Maureen Welsher, Sergeant Ginn’s daughter tells us: ‘‘My father would always say, I wasn’t being brave, there was no such thing. I was doing my job.  I am terribly proud of him.”