Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Captain R. Nosworthy, Royal Artillery

Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R., with M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt. R. Nosworthy. R.A.); Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, very fine (4) £160-£200

Robert Nosworthy was born in 1923 and was appointed to an Emergency Commission as Second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, notification appearing in the London Gazette of 21 September 1945. Promoted Lieutenant 3 December 1949, he caught the attention of the Kensington News and West London Times on 6 April 1951:

‘Captain Robert Nosworthy, R.A. (Adjt. 499 (M) H.A.A. Regt. R.A. (Kensington) T.A.
When we called on Captain Bob (Robert) Nosworthy, popular adjutant of the 499, last week, we found him sitting at a desk piled high with papers and working hard on the final arrangements for Kensington’s T.A. parade... “No rest for the wicked,” he laughed, and then told us he had been married only a few days earlier at St. Philip’s Church, Earls Court Road, to a Kensington girl, Kathleen Prince.’

Nosworthy left No. 499 H.A.A. in May 1951 and later served in Malaya. A keen tennis and hockey player, he died on 2 March 1983.

Note: M.I.D. unconfirmed.