V.C. A PRISONER
British Official Wireless.
EARLIER REPORTED DEAD
Rugby, September 8. The wife of Lance-Corporal Nichols, of the Grenadier Guards, who wore deep mourning when with her eight months old baby daughter she recently received from the King at Buckingham Palace the Victoria Cross awarded her husband for gallantry displayed during the evacuation of Dunkirk, has now learned that he is not dead but a prisoner of war. His was one of the flrst two army V.C.'s of the war. Lance-Corporal Nichols was leading his section when it came under heavy machine-gun fire. He dashed forward firing from his hip witji a Bren gun and silenced three German machlne-guns. He then went on to higher ground and engaged six German infantrj • Although he was wounded at least four times his gallantry enabled his company to reach its objective.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1940, Page 8
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