Winton, Nicholas George
- Date of birth:
- May 19th, 1909 (Hampstead/London, United Kingdom)
- Date of death:
- July 1st, 2015 (Slough/Berkshire, United Kingdom)
- Service number:
- 176852
- Nationality:
- British
Biography
Military career
22 June 1944: Acting Pilot Officer
17 August 1944: Pilot Officer (prob.)
17 February 1945: Flying Officer (em.)
19 May 1954: Flight Lieutenant (hon.)
Service years: 1940-1954
Nicholas Winton organized the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport.
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Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
- Awarded on:
- June 10th, 1983
Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk 4th Class
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Flight Lieutenant
- Awarded on:
- 1998
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Flight Lieutenant
- Awarded on:
- March 11th, 2003
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Flight Lieutenant
- Awarded on:
- 2008
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Flight Lieutenant
- Awarded on:
- 2010
Raoul Wallenberg Medal
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Flight Lieutenant
- Awarded on:
- June 27th, 2013
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Flight Lieutenant
- Awarded on:
- October 28th, 2014
- Period:
- Second World War (1939-1945)
- Rank:
- Aircraftman, 1st Class
Sources
- Photo: Wikimedia Commons
- - Page 17 | Supplement 49375, 10 June 1983 | London Gazette | The Gazette
- Page 10218 | Issue 57030, 15 August 2003 | London Gazette | The Gazette
- Page 3562 | Supplement 36633, 28 July 1944 | London Gazette | The Gazette
- Page 4071 | Supplement 36681, 29 August 1944 | London Gazette | The Gazette
- Page 1202 | Supplement 36963, 27 February 1945 | London Gazette | The Gazette
- Page 6200 | Supplement 40315, 29 October 1954 | London Gazette | The Gazette
- "Britons honoured for holocaust heroism". The Daily Telegraph. London. 9 March 2010
- List of Honoured - Prague Castle
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- Sir Nicholas Winton – A remarkable living legend - Opinion - Jerusalem Post
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