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.