REPORTED DEAD

Grey River Argus, 10 September 1940, Page 10

REPORTED DEAD

BRITISH V.C. LOCATED IN GERMANY. RUGBY, September 7. The wife of Lance Corporal Nicholls, of the Grenadier Guards, who was wearing deep mourning, when, with her eijght-months -old baby daughter, she recently received from the King at Buckingham Palace the Victoria Cross awarded to her’ husband for gallantry, displayed during the evacuation of Dunkirk, has now learned that he is not dead, but is a prisoner of war. His was one of the first two Army V.C.’s of the war. As reported at the time that the decoration was announced, Lance Corporal Nicholls was leading a section when it came under heavy machine-gun fire. Nicholls dashed forward, firing from the hip with a Bren gun, and silenced three German machine-guns. He then went on to higher ground, and engaged six German infantry. Although ne was wounded at least four times, his gallantry enabled his company to reach its objective.