Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Captain C. Nicholls, Royal Engineers

Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse privately inscribed, ‘Captain Charles Nicholls, R.E., June 3, 1918’; 1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.), generally very fine (4) £700-900

M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1918.

Charles Nicholls, a native of Devon, was born in December 1879 and was educated privately at the Camborne School of Mines, Cornwall. Commissioned from the Inns of Court O.T.C. into the Royal Engineers in October 1915, he entered the French theatre of war in the same month, most probably ‘for duty with the Tunnelling Companies’ (his Colonel’s letter of recommendation for a commission refers). Nicholls was demobilised in June 1919, having latterly served in 280th (Army Troops) Company, R.E.