A Second War Memorial Cross to Pte.Nelson; R.C.O.C. 1945
A Second War Memorial Cross to Pte.Nelson; R.C.O.C. 1945 - George VI (H.45556 Pte. C.M. NELSON). Naming is engraved. Contact marks and surface wear, very fine. Footnote: Cecil Morris Nelson was born in 1909 in the United Kingdom, the son of Morris Cook Nelson and Emma Elizabeth Nelson. His family later immigrated to Canada, where he married Lena E. Nelson of Venlaw, Manitoba. H/45556 Private Nelson served with the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps during the Second World War and died on April 21, 1945, at the age of 36. He is buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery, Surrey, United Kingdom, Grave Reference: 50. B. 3. and is commemorated on page 549 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.

