Marion Young

Hanson was born in 1941, in Bradford, Yorkshire, the daughter of George (a police superintendent) and Mary Hall.

Marion Young (born 1949) was a student nurse in 1967.

Young, 18 at the time, also attempted to talk down Mone, and save the life of Nanette Hanson.

She was an acquaintance of Robert Mone's, who demanded that she be brought to the school.

The Dundee School Shootings was a 1967 incident at St John's Roman Catholic High School in Dundee, Scotland.

On 1 November 1967 Robert Mone, absent without leave from his army unit and after drinking for days, entered a girls' needlework class at St John's High School wearing his uniform and armed with a shotgun.

He held the 14- and 15-year-old pupils and their pregnant teacher, Nanette Hanson, captive for 90 minutes.

Mone's motive is assumed to be revenge for his expulsion from the school.

After entering the classroom, Mone told the girls to barricade the doors and herded them into a fitting room.

He fired several rounds at the classroom door.

Police brought Mone's grandmother who unsuccessfully asked him to stop.

Mone then requested that an acquaintance - 18-year-old nurse Marion Young - be brought to the school.

During the standoff, Mone raped one girl, sexually assaulted another, and shot at both women, but the gun misfired.

Hanson and Young persuaded Mone to release the girls.

Young pleaded with Mone to allow Hanson to be taken to hospital, and Mone told her dismissively that she could do what she wanted.

Mone was arrested and Hanson taken to the Dundee Royal Infirmary, where she died from her injuries.

Nanette Hanson (1941 – 1 November 1967) was a teacher at St. John's RC High School.

In May 1967 she married Guy Hanson in Bradford, and the couple moved to Dundee, where Nanette had got a job teaching at St John's School.

Hanson was pregnant with her first child at the time of her murder.

She is buried in St John's Churchyard, Ben Rhydding, Ilkley, Yorkshire.

The headmaster, Brother Bede, said: "Nanette is a heroine, a martyr who died for these children. It was due to her courage that a worse tragedy didn't follow."

She attempted to talk down Robert Mone during a siege before being fatally wounded by him, and is credited with saving the lives of the twelve girls in her class.

Hanson was posthumously awarded the Albert Medal, which later became the George Cross.

On 23 January 1968 Mone was found to be insane and sent to the State Hospital in Carstairs.

In 1971 the Albert Medal was replaced by the George Cross, with Hanson's post-nominal letters changing from AM to GC at that time.

Her citation reads:

Mrs. Hanson was taking a needlework class of twelve girls at St. John's School when a soldier, armed with a shot gun, entered the

classroom, ordered her and the girls to barricade the doors, and then herded them into a small fitting room which adjoined.

During the period that followed the man fired several blasts from the shot gun at the classroom door, on the other side of which the headmaster and members of the staff had gathered.

Mrs. Hanson was then brought out of the fitting room and showing complete calm, engaged the man in conversation, during which he expressed a wish to see a young nurse and agreed that if she could be brought the children would be set free.

Mrs. Hanson persuaded those outside to leave her to handle the situation; this despite the fact that the soldier had already once attempted to shoot her at point blank range and would have done so had the gun not misfired.

The nurse had meanwhile been brought to the school, and quite voluntarily entered the room in an attempt to pacify the man and secure the release of the girls.

This was eventually accomplished through the joint efforts of Mrs. Hanson and the nurse who were then left alone in the room with the man trying to persuade him to give himself up.

Before he did so, however, he shot Mrs. Hanson in the back killing her immediately.

In 2000, Hanson was one of 13 recipients of the Victoria or George Cross honoured in her home town of Bradford when a gallery was set up in their honour in City Hall.

In 2017 a retired police officer claimed that a police sniper had Mone in his sights but was denied permission to shoot.

Teacher Nanette Hanson engaged Mone in conversation and he asked for Marion Young to be brought to the school.

Eventually the two women persuaded him to let the girls go.

Hanson and Young attempted to get him to give himself up but about 90 minutes into the attack he told Hanson to close the blinds then shot her in the back, fatally wounding her.

Young survived.