VC sale and row over pensions
- Title
- VC sale and row over pensions
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- Unknown
- Year of production
- 1983
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- Duration
- 00:02:31
- Description
- Report on the selling of a Victoria Cross awarded to late Second World War pilot James Nicholson, to raise money for his widow Muriel Nicholson, due to the paucity of service pensions. Includes interview on Thames Television with son James Nicholson; interview with Dr John Tanner of RAF Museum. Male reporter and interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- Thames Television; John Tanner; James Nicholson
- Keywords
- Pensions; Auctions; Pilots; Second World War (1939-1945); Air force; Museums; RAF Museum; Veterans (Armed Forces); Medals; Hendon; War pensions; James Nicholson; Muriel Nicholson
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