A WW2 Normandy Operations MM group of six to Sapper Noble RE / MM for gallantry on the first day of Operation Goodwood

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A WW2 Normandy Operations MM group of six to Sapper Noble RE / MM for ga
  • A WW2 Normandy Operations MM group of six to Sapper Noble RE / MM for ga
  • A WW2 Normandy Operations MM group of six to Sapper Noble RE / MM for ga

  • A WW2 Normandy Operations MM group of six to Sapper Noble RE / MM for gallantry on the first day of Operation Goodwood

  • £1,250.00
On Hold 30th September

Military Medal. Correctly impressed 2128232 Spr. R. Noble, R.E. 

1939-45 Star

Africa Star, clasp with 8th Army

Italy Star

France and Germany Star

War Medal

Mounted for display.

Condition GVF

 

Sold with original documents, including Buckingham Palace forwarding letter for his M.M.; wartime printed messages from Montgomery for the Sicily and Normandy landings, in addition to Eisenhower’s similar message on the eve of D-Day; his Record of Service card, R.E. Record Office, Brighton, dated 30 October 1945; a “Soldiers’ Guide to Scotland” and a wartime newspaper cutting regarding Bailey Bridges, this with handwritten explanatory notes ‘This is the bridge Daddy helps to build. With Royal Engineer cap badges and divisional patches.

Robert Noble was born in Kenton and enlisted in the Royal Engineers in November 1940. He served in Africa and Italy with the 8th Army. While serving in France with the 275th Field Company, R.E., attached 51st Highland Division he won the military medal for bravery on the 1st day of Operation Goodwood during the advance to Caen.

The award of the Military medal was approved by Montgomery and was announced in the London gazette on the 21st of December 1944. The original citation is as follows;

‘On the morning of 18 July 1944, Driver Noble was the driver of No. 2 Platoon Wireless Vehicle, which was situated half a mile north of Escoville. During the morning this party was heavily shelled and the wireless operator wounded. Driver Noble carried this operator to the Advanced Dressing Station and returned to his vehicle to discover that the second operator had been wounded and evacuated in his absence.

Regardless of the fact that Noble was not trained as a wireless operator, he immediately took control of the set which was the object of continuously heavy and accurate shell fire and maintained communication for the remainder of the day when the R./T. link was vital to the success of the task in which his platoon was engaged.

Throughout the day, Noble was an example to all by his devotion to duty and complete disregard of his own safety.’