A Collection of Medals formed by the Reverend Canon Nigel Nicholson, OStJ, DL 118
A scarce 1919 Great War D.S.M. group of five awarded to Yeoman of Signals R. J. Nicholson, Royal Navy, for services in the Mine Clearance Force
Distinguished Service Medal, G.V.R. (225008. R. J. Nicholson. Yeo. Sigs. “Bagshot” Black Sea & Aegean 1919) surname partially officially corrected; 1914-15 Star (225008, R. J. Nicholson, L. Sig., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (225008. R. J. Nicholson. L. Sig. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (225008. R. J. Nicholson, Ldg. Sig. H.M.S. Blenheim.) contact marks, nearly very fine (5)
£700-£900
D.S.M. London Gazette 8 March 1920: ‘For services in the Mine Clearance Force.’
Richard James Nicholson was born in Gosport, Hampshire, on 18 August 1887, and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Signaller on 24 January 1902. Advanced Leading Signalman on 1 October 1909, he served during the Great War in H.M.S. Buttercup, before transferring to H.M.S. Bagshot for service in the Mine Clearance Force on 8 June 1919. For his services with the Mine Clearance Force he was awarded the D.S.M., one of the very last awards made for the Great War, and a scarce gallantry award given for services after the Armistice. Rated Yeoman Signaller between 11 August 1919 and 14 March 1920, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 6 January 1921, and was shore pensioned on 27 August 1927.
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A Great War ‘Battle of the Aisne’ M.M. and ‘2nd Battle of the Somme’ Bar group of four awarded to Sergeant Thomas Nicholson, Durham Light Infantry
Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (300168 L. Cpl. T. Nicholson. 1/8 Durh: L.I.); 1914-15 Star 2076 Pte. T. Nicholson. Durh: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (2076 Sjt. T. Nicholson. Durh. L.I.) some light contact pitting, otherwise very fine and better (4)
£600-£800
M.M. London Gazette 21 October 1918. One of seven awards to the 1/8th Battalion in the March Offensive at the Battle of the Aisne, 27 May-6 June 1918.
M.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 20 August 1919. Awarded for service with the 15th Battalion D.L.I. during the 2nd Battle of the Somme, 23 August 1918.
Thomas Pringle Nicholson was born at Haswell, county Durham, on 14 July 1894. A coal miner by trade, he enlisted on 1 April 1913, aged 18 years 9 months, joining the 8th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. He later transferred to the 15th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. He served in France from 20 April 1915, and was discharged in the rank of Sergeant on 11 January 1919, with gun shot wound in neck and right thigh and shell gas poisoning. He died at Durham during the first quarter of 1971. Sold with research.
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