Three: Lieutenant-Colonel A. C. Nicholson, Hampshire Yeomanry

Territorial Decoration, E.VII.R., silver and silver-gilt, the reverse hallmarked 1908; Coronation 1902, silver; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (Capt. A. C. Nicholson. 50 Co. 17/Impl. Yeo.) contemporary court mounted by Spink and Son, London, in this order, extremely fine (3) £400-£500

Arthur Carleton Nicholson was born on 2 July 1864, the youngest son of William and Isabella Nicholson. Educated at Winchester College, he graduated from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1885 with a Bachelor of Arts. He served in South Africa 1900-01 with the 50th (Hampshire) Company, 17th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, and took part in the operations in the Transvaal, January 1901; in Orange River Colony, December 1900 to May 1901; and in Cape Colony, 30 November 1900 to April 1901. The 17th and 18th Battalions I.Y. were the only yeomanry entitled to the clasp for Rhodesia for their part in the operations in that country in 1900. Nicholson was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 10 September 1901) and received the Queen’s Medal with 5 clasps. Major and Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel, 10 August 1901. Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholson did not serve overseas during the Great War. Resident at Hartham Park, Corsham, Wiltshire, he was a J.P. and D.L. for that County and held the office of High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1929. He died on 11 February 1945, aged 80.

Sold with two Hampshire Yeomanry (Carabiniers) collar badges and a mounted pair of medals awarded to his daughter, comprising Defence Medal and Voluntary Medical Services Medal with additional clasp (Miss Ruth Isabel Agnes Nicholson).

For his uniform, helmet, sword and other accoutrements see lot 1426, and for the C.B., C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O. group awarded to his elder brother see lot 1.