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Auction: 22133 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 292

The Victory Medal awarded to Private H. A. Nixon, 2nd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, a pre-war soldier killed in action on the First Day of Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916

Victory Medal 1914-19 (L-12127 Pte. H. A. Nixon. Midd'X R.), good very fine

Harry Albert Nixon was born at Winchester, Hampshire in 1888, the son of Alice Nixon of 31 Priory Grove, Lambeth. Enlisting on 24 February 1908 he entered the war in France on 7 November 1914 he served until the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916. The 2nd Battalion, Middlesex Regiment advanced on a feature between Ovillers and La Boisselle called Mash Valley and suffered appalling losses. The Battalion War Diary refers:

'As soon as our leading wave left our trenches to assist it was caught by heavy machine gun fire and suffered heavy losses. As soon as the succeeding waves came under this fire they doubled forward and before anyone reached the German front line the original wave formation had ceased to exist.'

Nixon was killed in the attack, as his body was never found he is remembered upon the Thiepval Memorial; sold together with a copied Commonwealth War Graves certificate.

Further entitled to the Victory Medal and 1914 Star.

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Sold for
£150

Starting price
£40