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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 167

Three: Temporary Sub-Lieutenant N. Higgs, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, who was killed in action when H.M.S. Fleur de Lys was torpedoed by U-206 on 14 October 1941

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, in their box of issue, this addressed to 'Mr E. B. Higgs, 6 Barrow Street, Much Wenlock, Shropshire' and with the Admiralty Condolence slip in the name of 'Ty. Sub-Lieutenant Norman Higgs, R.N.V.R.', good very fine (3)

Norman Higgs was born in 1917 and was educated at Goldsmith's College. He passed out of King Alfred and was commissioned Sub-Lieutenant in March 1941. Higgs joined the Flower-Class Corvette Fleur de Lys and lost his life seven months later when she was torpedoed by U-206 on 14 October 1941 some 56 miles west of Gibraltar. The CO, Lieutenant Collins, with five Officers - Higgs included - and 65 ratings were lost. His is commemorated upon the Plymouth Naval Memorial and his Medals were sent to his father, Ernest Brownhill Higgs; sold together with Passing Out Certificate, Navy Payable Order to his father and appointment dated 27 March 1941, besides three photographs, two of which include Higgs.

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Sold for
£230

Starting price
£70