- SURNAME
Nicholls
- FORENAME
Frederick William
- UNIT
Director of Signals,SOE
- RANK
T/Brigadier
- NUMBER
143011
- AWARD
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- PLACE
WW2
- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
parent unit Royal Corps of Signals
born 27.5.1889 21 Holdenhurst Road,Bournemouth,Dorset
son of Thomas Arthur and Sabina (nee Mapstone) Nicholls
Infantry 1914 (Private)
Royal Corps of Signals 1918 (Lt - Captain)
Y Service 1919
served Russia,Afghanistan,Burma,Iraq,Persia,Palestine and India and France 1939-40
SOE (GSO 1 (Signals)) November 1942 (Lt Colonel)
SOE Director of Signals 1.5.1943 - January 1946 (retired)
T/Brigadier July 1944
retired to Wiltshire
married Jessie Jane Lindsay (died 1952)
married Marjorie Emilie (Marianne) Tindall March 1955 (former SOE signals)
no children
award M.B.E. 1918 O.B.E. 1927 C.B.E. 1946
awarded Legion of Merit,Degree of Officer (US) and Danish,Dutch and French awards
died 18.12.1974 Coombe Bissett,Wiltshire
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