Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria including the collection to Naval Artificers formed by JH Deacon

A Great War O.B.E. pair to Major T. B. Nicholson, West India Regiment, late Lumsden’s Horse

The Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military), 1st type, hallmarks for London, 1919; Queen’s South Africa, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (166 Tpr., Lumsden’s Horse), last with edge bruising, good very fine (2) £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals to Lumsden's Horse.

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Major Thomas Brinsley Nicholson was a coffee planter from Yercand. He served in the Boer War as a Trooper in Lumsden’s Horse, being present in the actions at Karee Siding, Houtnek, Vet River and Zand River, together with those around Johannesburg and Pretoria. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the West India Regiment in July 1900 and was promoted Lieutenant the following year. He was appointed Lieutenant and Adjutant of the 2nd battalion W.I.R. in Sierra Leonne in 1904, attaining the rank of Captain in 1913. In the Great War he served on the staff of the Governor-General of Jamaica as Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quarter Master General. Promoted Major in 1919, he received the O.B.E. for his war services.