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Five: Lieutenant-Colonel C. R. I. Nicholl, Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars (Yeomanry), who commanded the Henley Squadron during the Great War on the Western Front from September 1914, having taken over the command of the Squadron from Winston Churchill


1914 Star, with clasp (Major C. R. I. Nicholl. Ox: Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major C. R. I. Nicholl.); Coronation 1937; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., silver and silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919, with integral top riband bar, nearly very fine and better (5)


£700-£900


Charles Rice Iltyd Nicholl was born in Marylebone, London in 1881 and was educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars (Yeomanry) on 25 May 1903, was promoted Lieutenant on 13 October 1906, and advanced to Major on 23 April 1913. Shortly after receiving his Majority he took over command of the Henley Squadron from Major Winston Spencer-Churchill, after Churchill had relinquished his command in order to take a more active role in the Government. Shortly after the outbreak of the Great War, Nicholl was sent to France to join the British Expeditionary Force, disembarking with his regiment on 21 September 1914. Initially, due to Churchill’s influence, the regiment was detached from its own Brigade and became attached to the Royal Naval Division (Churchill at the time being First Lord of the Admiralty), which itself had been sent to Flanders to prevent a German advance towards the Channel ports. ‘In so doing, the regiment became the first Territorial unit to embark for a theatre of war and the first to see action, coming under fire at Mont des Cats.’


Churchill had served with the regiment from 1902 and would use his influence on other occasions to help shape the Regiment’s fortunes over the coming years. Regarding the regiments war time service, it is also noted that: ‘The Regiment soon hardened to the realities of war. Although disparagingly nicknamed by men of the regular army the “Queer Objects On Horseback” or “agricultural cavalry”, the Q.O.O.H. took part in many actions from Ypres in 1914 to Amiens and the final advance in 1918, winning many battle honours and the lasting respect of their fellow members of the 2nd Cavalry Division. As such it was one of only six yeomanry regiments to be posted to a regular cavalry division in the war.’


For his services during the Great War Nicholl was advanced Lieutenant-Colonel and was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 1 January 1916).


Note: The National Army museum has in their collection two Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars photograph albums compiled by Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholl.


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Five: Sergeant J. Cox, Royal Field Artillery


1914 Star, with copy slide clasp (No. 33298 Sgt. J. Cox. R.H.A.) later impressed naming; British War and Victory Medals (33298 Sjt. J. Cox. R.A.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (33298 Sjt. J. Cox. R.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (1045371 Sjt. J. Cox. R.F.A.) mounted as worn, nearly very fine (5)


£180-£220


Sold with copied Medal Index Cards which show 1914 Star with clasp as a Gunner with 13th Brigade R.F.A., serving in France from 14 October 1914, and entitled to medal for Iraq.


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Five: Major B. G. M. Klee, Worcestershire Regiment, late Sergeant, Coldstream Guards


1914 Star, with copy clasp (6973 L. Sjt. B. G. M. Klee. C. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. B. G. M. Klee); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted for wear, very fine (5)


£140-£180


Bernard George Martin Klee was born in Martley, Worcestershire. He served during the Great War with the Coldstream Guards in the French theatre of war from, 13 August 1914. Klee advanced to Sergeant, and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Worcestershire Regiment in September 1917. He advanced to Major and served with the Regiment during the Second War. Klee died in Worcester in February 1982, and is buried in the Astwood Cemetery, Worcester.


His son - Bernard Peter Klee - served as a Pilot Officer with the Royal Air Force during the Second War. He was a Spitfire pilot with 222 Squadron, and shared in the destruction of 3 enemy aircraft, before being shot down and killed by a German night fighter, 3/4 May 1941. Pilot Officer Klee is buried in the same cemetery as his father.


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