Four: Private C. E. Nichols, 1st City of London Rifle Volunteers and City of London Imperial Volunteers, later Army Service Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (1368 Pte. C. E. Nichols. C.I.V.); 1914-15 Star (DM2-112029, Pte. C. E. Nichols, A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (DM2-112029 Pte. C. E. Nichols. A.S.C.) light contact marks, very fine (4) £160-£200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria.

View
Collection

Charles Edwin Nichols was born in Kensington, London in 1869. A warehouseman in the drapery trade with Cook, Son & Co. by occupation, he joined the 1st City of London Volunteer Rifle Corps in 1895 and served in South Africa with the Infantry Battalion of the City Imperial Volunteers during the Boer War. He subsequently served during the Great War with the Army Service Corps in the Egyptian theatre of War from 6 October 1915 and was discharged Class Z on 3 May 1919.