A Collection of Medals formed by the Reverend Canon Nigel Nicholson, OStJ, DL 131 Pair: Private D. Nicholson, 74th Foot


South Africa 1834-53 (2803 Pte. D. Nicholson, 74th. Foot.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (2803. Pte. D. Nicholson, 74th. Foot) edge bruising to latter, otherwise good very fine (2)


£340-£380


Donald Nicholson was born in Strathie, Inverness-shire, in 1828 and attested for the 74th Foot on 16 October 1847. He served with the Regiment in South Africa during the Third Kaffir War 1850-53, and for ten years in India, and was discharged on 3 November 1868, after 21 years and 19 days’ service.


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Three: Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals B. Nicholson, Army Medical Department


South Africa 1834-53 (Asst. Surgn. B. Nicholson, M.D., 2nd. Bn. 60th. Rifles.); China 1857-60, no clasp (Staff Surgn. B. Nicholson.); New Zealand 1845-66, reverse undated but contemporarily impressed ‘1860 to 1864’, naming erased on last, heavy contact marks, nearly very fine (3)


£700-£900 Provenance: Sotheby’s, December 1991.


Brinsley Nicholson was born at Fort George, Scotland, in 1824, the eldest son of B. W. H. Nicholson, Army Medical Staff. Educated at Edinburgh University, he joined the Army Medical Department as an Assistant Surgeon on the Staff on 25 September 1856, and served in South Africa in the Kaffir Wars of 1846-47, and 1850-53, latterly attached to the 60th Foot. His careful observations and studies of the native tribes were subsequently published in ‘Compendium of Kafir Laws and Customs’ in 1858. Promoted Surgeon on 27 October 1857, he served as Staff Surgeon in North China in 1860 in charge of two General Field Hospitals, and was present during the loot of the Summer Palace at Pekin; and then saw further service in New Zealand during the Maori Wars. Appointed Honorary Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, he retired from the Army in November 1871, and subsequently devoted himself to Elizabethan literature. He died on 14 September 1892.


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Three: Private J. Nicholson, 17th Lancers, who served with the Light Brigade in the Crimea


Crimea 1854-56, 4 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sebastopol (J. Nicholson, 17th. Lancers) officially impressed naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (John Nicholson, 17th. Lancers); Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed as issued, plugged and fitted with a contemporary Crimea-style suspension, minor edge bruising, contact marks, very fine (3)


£3,000-£4,000


John Nicholson was born in 1829 and attested for the 17th Lancers at Hampton Court on 11 December 1849. He served with the 17th Lancers as part of the Light Brigade throughout the entire Crimean War, and is confirmed in Forgotten Heroes by Roy Dutton as having taken part in the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava on 25 October 1854. Discharged, he subsequently claimed from the Light Brigade Relief Fund, and died in India in June 1893.


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