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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 844

(x) Three: Rifleman G. A. Nadig, King's Royal Rifle Corps, who likely served in the Home Guard or as an A.R.P. warden during the Second World War, and lost his mother during the London Blitz on 17 April 1941

British War and Victory Medals (R-13085 Pte. G. Nadig, K.R. Rif. C.); Defence Medal 1939-45, together with O.H.M.S. box of transmission to G. A. Nadig, 107 Queen's Road, Croydon, Surrey, good very fine (3)

George Anton Nadig was born at Kensington, London, on 2 March 1896, the son of Constance Elizabeth Nadig. He served as a lavatory boy at the Wellington Club, Grosvenor Place, before joining the 1st Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, with whom he served throughout the remainder of the war. Returning home, George married Ethel May Lester in Croydon in 1922. Sadly, his mother, Constance, died during one of the worst air raids to affect Holborn during the war, being one of 426 civilians killed by enemy action in this part of London.

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