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Auction: 7022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 1319

A ´Normandy Landings´ Second War Casualty Group of Three to Leading Wireman J.H.P. Nye, Royal Navy 1939-1945 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal, extremely fine with named condolence slip in card box of issue addressed to ´Mr. H.W. Nye, Littlehampton, Sussex´; Admiralty Certificate stating the recipient´s death; newspaper cutting, dated 21.7.1944; and a photograph on the recipient (3) Estimate £ 80-100 D/MX 102969 John Henry Percy Nye, born Littlehampton, Sussex; enlisted in the Royal Navy March 1942; took part in the D-Day Landings 6.6.1944; killed in action 8.6.1944 when the landing craft in which he was serving was torpedoed of the Normandy Coast, and is commemorated on Plymouth Naval Memorial

Sold for
£110