Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Stoker 1st Class W. Nutt, Royal Navy, who was killed in action when his submarine H.M.S. Tigris was depth charged by the German submarine chaser UJ-2210 and sank off Capri, 27 February 1943

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with named Admiralty enclosure, in card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. S. M. Nutt, 48 Large Square, Stainforth, Doncaster, Yorks’, nearly extremely fine (4) £120-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Second World War Casualties.

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Wilfred Nutt served during the Second World War as a Stoker 1st Class in the T-class submarine H.M.S. Tigris. She left Malta on 18 February 1943 to patrol off Naples, and was last sighted at 7:30 a.m. on 24 February, 39 miles from Capri. On the morning of 27 February, the German submarine chaser UJ-2210, escorting a convoy six miles south east of Capri, made contact with an Allied submarine and carried out three depth charge attacks; the third attack brought oil to the surface and the contact was noted to be stationary. A fourth attack of fifteen depth charges brought a huge bubble of air to the surface. On 6 March, Tigris was ordered to return to Algiers but there was no reply to this signal. She failed to return to Algiers on 10 March 1943, and was declared overdue on that date. Tigris is almost certainly the submarine that was sunk on 27 February by UJ-2210 under the command of Otto Pollmann.

Nutt was amongst those killed, aged 24. He is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial, and his official date of death is recorded as 10 March 1943, the day Tigris was declared overdue. His medals were sent to his father Sidney Nutt.