Auction Catalogue

5 April 2006

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 987

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5 April 2006

Estimate: £300–£350

Three: Commander G. R. Nixon, Royal Navy, who was lost overboard from H.M.S. Albermarle during a storm in November 1915

1914-15 Star
(Comr., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (Commr., R.N.), extremely fine (3) £300-350

George Russell Nixon was born in July 1880, the son of a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Engineers, and was appointed a Midshipman on passing out of Britannia in April 1896 and advanced to Lieutenant in December 1901. Awarded the Africa General Service Medal for the Somaliland operations 1902-04, for services aboard H.M.S. Hermione, he qualified as a Torpedo Officer in the following year and was promoted to Lieutenant-Commander in December 1909. Thereafter, more or less until the outbreak of hostilities, he appears to have been a resident of either Haslar or Osborne House, suffering from a back injury, but in by August of 1914 he was declared fit, when holding an appointment aboard the Albermarle. Having been promoted to Commander in June 1915, however, he was reported drowned on 7 November of the same year, after being ‘washed overboard’ in a storm. Nixon has no known grave and is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.