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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 47216" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Nicholls</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Frederick William</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Director of Signals,SOE</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>T/Brigadier</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>143011</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AWARD</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Commander of the Order of the British Empire</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>PLACE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>WW2</em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>parent unit Royal Corps of Signals</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 27.5.1889 21 Holdenhurst Road,Bournemouth,Dorset</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of Thomas Arthur and Sabina (nee Mapstone) Nicholls</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Infantry 1914 (Private)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Royal Corps of Signals 1918 (Lt - Captain)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Y Service 1919</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>served Russia,Afghanistan,Burma,Iraq,Persia,Palestine and India and France 1939-40</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE (GSO 1 (Signals)) November 1942 (Lt Colonel)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE Director of Signals 1.5.1943 - January 1946 (retired)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>T/Brigadier July 1944</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>retired to Wiltshire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Jessie Jane Lindsay (died 1952)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>married Marjorie Emilie (Marianne) Tindall March 1955 (former SOE signals)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>no children</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award M.B.E. 1918 O.B.E. 1927 C.B.E. 1946</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>awarded Legion of Merit,Degree of Officer (US) and Danish,Dutch and French awards</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>died 18.12.1974 Coombe Bissett,Wiltshire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/f-nicholls.16754/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/16/16754-0f5dcc4be2123e74a97adc7c63c6d168.jpg?1591399780" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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