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Six: Lieutenant-Commander K. M. Nicholson, Royal Naval Reserve Naval General Service...
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Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1936-1939 (Lieut. K. M. Nicholson. R.N.R.) rank and initials officially corrected; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Naval Reserve Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, reverse officially dated 1941, mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s riband bar, good very fine (6) £180-£220
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Kenneth Montgomery Nicholson, a British national, was born in New York, United States of America, on 30 January 1906, and received his Certificate of Competency as Second Mate in the Mercantile Marine on 21 June 1925. Commissioned into the Royal Naval Reserve, he was advanced Lieutenant-Commander, and served during the Second World War as Captain of H.M.S. Violet from November 1940 to September 1941; during this period Violet, along with H.M. Ships Arabis, Malcolm, Scimitar, and Speedwell sunk U-651 in the North Atlantic on 29 June 1941. He was awarded the Royal Naval Reserve Decoration in 1941 (London Gazette 10 February 1942).
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Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1936-1939 (Lieut. K. M. Nicholson. R.N.R.) rank and initials officially corrected; 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Royal Naval Reserve Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, reverse officially dated 1941, mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s riband bar, good very fine (6) £180-£220
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Kenneth Montgomery Nicholson, a British national, was born in New York, United States of America, on 30 January 1906, and received his Certificate of Competency as Second Mate in the Mercantile Marine on 21 June 1925. Commissioned into the Royal Naval Reserve, he was advanced Lieutenant-Commander, and served during the Second World War as Captain of H.M.S. Violet from November 1940 to September 1941; during this period Violet, along with H.M. Ships Arabis, Malcolm, Scimitar, and Speedwell sunk U-651 in the North Atlantic on 29 June 1941. He was awarded the Royal Naval Reserve Decoration in 1941 (London Gazette 10 February 1942).
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