Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private E. Hickman, 2nd Battalion Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment, who died of wounds as a prisoner-of-war, 27 November 1914

1914 Star (2822 Pte., 2/Notts. & Derby. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2822 Pte., Notts. & Derby. R.) first and last sometime silvered, edge bruising, fine (3) £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A fine Collection of Medals to the Sherwood Foresters.

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Ernest Hickman was born in Radford, Nottinghamshire and enlisted in Nottingham in August 1908. Serving with the 2nd Battalion Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 11 November 1914. Hickman died of wounds as a prisoner-of-war on 27 November 1914. He was buried in the Erquinghem Churchyard Extension, Nord, France