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VC1165    Harry Nicholls

Name   Harry Nicholls   No.     

VC Issue No.   1165   Awards   VC   

Regiment   Grenadier Guards, 3rd Battalion

Later   

Now   

Rank VC Won    Lance-Corporal

Rank End Of Career   Corporal

Place Of Birth   Hope Street, The Meadows, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

Place Of Death   In a flat owned by The Grenadier Guards Association, Leeds, Yorkshire, England

Buried/Location Ashes   Wilford Hill Cemetery (Southern Cemetery), Loughborough Road, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   

Headstone   Headstone    Plot/Grave no.  Section L32 Grave 89

Gazetted    30 June 1940

VC Presented   6 August 1940 by King George VI at Buckingham Palace to his presumed widow & 22 June 1945 by King George VI at Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Wilford Hill Cemetery (Southern Cemetery), Loughborough Road, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

P  Named on Nottinghamshire VC Memorial

P  Nicholls Road,  Windsor, Berkshire

By The Way…

VC gazetted as posthumous as he was presumed dead after his VC action, as a POW in Stalag 20a his award was announced by the Camp Commandant on Hitler's orders. He is believed to be the first VC to be awarded the award twice, once to his ‘widow’ 6th August 1940 and on being repatriated 22nd June 1945, from the king.

VC Held By

Grenadier Guards, Guards Museum, Wellington Barracks, Birdcage Walk, London, England

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BORN    21 April 1918

DIED   11 September 1975   AGE   57

VC Won   21 May 1940    AGE    22

Place VC Won   near River Sheldt, Belgium (BEF withdrawal)

War/Campaign   Second World War