A teenage cook whose heroics onboard a warship helped shorten the Second World War has been honoured in his home town after a public vote.
The regenerated centre of North Shields, North Tyneside, has been named after Thomas Brown, who was awarded the George Medal for helping to retrieve codebooks from a sinking German U-boat in October 1942.
The books were later used to crack the Enigma code by experts at Bletchley Park, enabling the British to decipher Nazi messages.
