Distinguished Service Medal GVIR (A/LDG. SMN. R. NIGHTINGALE. P/JX 223023); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45 - unnamed as awarded with copy photo of recipient, a congratulatory letter from Vice Admiral Burnett and a letter informing recipient of the award of the DSM.
Roy Nightingale was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1920. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for the action wherein the Scharnhorst was sunk during the Battle of North Cape on 26.12.1943 - St. Stephen's Day
According to the 1921 England census he was a 1 year old baby living at his parents home at 41 Railway Road, Darwen, Lancashire.
The Battle of the North Cape was a Second World War naval battle that occurred on 26 December 1943, as part of the Arctic campaign. The German battleship Scharnhorst, on an operation to attack Arctic convoys of war materiel from the western Allies to the Soviet Union, was brought to battle and sunk by the Royal Navy's battleship HMS Duke of York with cruisers and destroyers, including an onslaught from the destroyer HNoMS Stord of the exiled Royal Norwegian Navy, off the North Cape, Norway.
Nightingale was serving aboard the Sheffield - one of the RN ships responsible for the sinking.
He died in Lancashire in 2011
Medals are in good condition unless indicated otherwise. Sold with copied research.
Medals are in good condition unless indicated otherwise. Sold together with copied research.
