Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Private Stanley Nicholson, 5th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment, who was killed in action on ‘D’ Day, 6 June 1944

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; together with original named transmission slip for medals and card box of issue, this with address obliterated; and contemporary black and white photograph of Nicholson’s original wooden grave marker, nearly extremely fine (4) £80-120

Lance Corporal Stanley Nicholson, 5th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment was killed in action on ‘D’ Day, 6 June 1944 and is buried at Bayeux War Cemetery.