233957 Michael Henry CHAINE-NICKSON, 2 Irish Guards

Personal Number: 233957
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Name: Michael Henry CHAINE-NICKSON
Unit: Irish Guards

London Gazette : 5 June 1942
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35582/supplement/2424/data.pdf
FOOT GUARDS.
The undermentioned Cadets to be 2nd Lts.:— 22nd May 1942:—
I. G'ds.
Michael Henry CHAINE-NICKSON (233957).

 

2nd Armoured Battalion Irish Guards: Pre-embarkation List, May 1944

No. 1 Squadron, 2 Armoured Irish Guards
No. 2 Troop

Serial: 69
Vehicle No: 147470
Type of Vehicle: Sherman

• 233957 Michael Henry CHAINE-NICKSON, 2 Irish Guards Lieutenant, Tp Offr
• 2719910 R UNWIN, 2 Irish Guards Lance-Corporal, D/Op
• 2720535 Fred SWALLOW, 2 Irish Guards Guardsman, D/Op
• 2719127 Thomas George CLARKE, 2 Irish Guards Guardsman, G/Mech
• 2722184 H McDERMOTT, 2 Irish Guards Guardsman, D/Mech

Total Officers: 1
Total Other Ranks: 4

 

Casualty

Lieutenant CHAINE-NICKSON, MICHAEL HENRY
Service Number 233957
Died 27/07/1944
Aged 25
2nd Bn. Irish Guards
Son of Augustus Alexander Chaine-Nickson and Rachel Halley Chaine-Nickson, of Dunleer, Co. Louth, Irish Republic. M.A. (Oxon.).
INSCRIPTION: FORTITER GERET CRUCEM
Buried at RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Location: Calvados, France
Cemetery/memorial reference: IX. E. 15.