Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A C.I.E. group of six awarded to Brigadier Cameron Macdonald Nicol, Indian Medical Service

The Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, C.I.E., Companion’s 3rd type neck badge, gold and enamel, in Garrard, London case of issue; British War and Victory Medals (Major); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (Capt., I.M.S.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, these unnamed, medals mounted as worn, good very fine and better (6)
£900-1000

Cameron Macdonald Nicol was born in New Deer, Aberdeenshire on 20 July 1891. Having previously taken a M.A. degree, he graduated in medicine at Aberdeen in 1915. During the Great War he served in Salonika with the R.A.M.C. (T.F.) from August 1916. In 1919 he became an M.D. He then took a regular commission in the Indian Medical Service, subsequently becoming the Assistant Director of Army Health of the Northern Command. He transferred to civil employment in 1934 and was later Director of Public Health for the Punjab. His activities following the Quetta earthquake and at the Hissar famine brought him to the notice of the authorities and in 1941 he was awarded the C.I.E. During the Second World War Nicol was recalled to the Army for special duty and was promoted to Brigadier on the staff of the quartermaster general with a mandate to create and run a directorate for food inspection. After the war Nicol returned to the Punjab as Director of Public Health. He returned to England in 1947. He died at Welwyn on 19 February 1965.

With original award document for the C.I.E. and original Investiture booklet for the awards presented by Sir Bertrand James Glancy, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E. at Lahore on 25 March 1942 - includes that to Nicol.

With copied research.