Five: Midshipman J. G. Nicholson, Royal Navy, who was killed in action when H.M.S. Isis was mined and sank off the Normandy coast, 20 July 1944

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Admiralty enclosure ‘Midshipman John Garvin [sic] Nicholson R.N.’, extremely fine £70-£90

John Girvin Nicholson was born at Dartmouth on 15 September 1925, and served during the Second World War as a Midshipman in H.M.S. Isis. He was killed in action, aged 18, when Isis was mined and sank off the Normandy coast on 20 July 1944 with the loss of 11 Officers and 144 ratings, and is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial.

Sold with copied research including a small photograph of the recipient.