Claim: Kenneth Biggs, who was awarded the second highest award of the United Kingdom honours system, was at an ammunition depot in Savernake Forest when ammunition being loaded from lorries into railway trucks caught fire which destroyed a lorry and railway wagons almost immediately.
Evidence: On 2 January 1946, he was at an ammunition depot in Savernake Forest when ammunition being loaded from lorries into railway trucks caught fire. A three-ton lorry, and two twenty-tonne railway wagons were destroyed almost immediately. The George Cross (GC) is the second highest award of the United Kingdom honours system.