Description
A Good London Blitz George medal pair.
George Medal (Geo VI) , Robert James Nicholls.; Cloth Civil Defence Corps badge and Warden Shoulder Title
G.M. London Gazette 7 February 1941: Robert James Nicholls, ARP Warden, Willesden:
‘House in Willesden Road, Willesden, London, September 1940.
“After bombs had fallen on some houses, Warden Nicholls saw two children in the debris in imminent danger, as a heavy beam appeared to be about to collapse on them. He rescued the two children, but the beam fell across him. He sustained slight concussion, a gash above the temple, a broken right arm, a very badly cut left leg and severe bruises. Despite these injuries Nicholls carried on with his work of evacuating the people in the road, until ordered to return to his post – which he did under protest. He was attended to by the stretcher party and was sent immediately to hospital.”
With details from ancestry which confirm the following:
Robert James Nicholls was born on the 23rd December 1880 in Brockley Kent.
He lived in Deptford, St paul, London, moving to Sutton, Surrey by the 1891 census,
He married Alexandra Louisa Margarita Wehner on 28th April 1906, but they divorced in 1924, and he then married Edith Walters in January 1928
Sadly Edith died in 1935.
He married again on the 14th December 1946 to Betty Joan Tarrant.
Robert died on the 10th February 1958 at Colchester Hospital, and was buried in Chelmsford Cemetery, Essex.
Condition – NEF
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