Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Staff Sergeant B. Nicholson, Canadian Mounted Rifles and Canadian Army Ordnance Corps

1914-15 Star (106464 Pte. B. Nicholson. 1/Can. M. Rif.); British War and Victory Medals (106464 S.Sjt. B. Nicholson. 1-C.M.R.); Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (106464 Pte. B. Nicholson. Can: A.O.C.) mounted as worn with the MSM first, good very fine (4) £200-240

M.S.M. London Gazette 8 June 1919.

Boyce Nicholson was born in Hanley, Staffordshire, on 16 September 1886 and attested for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Brandon, Manitoba on 1 December 1914, having previously served for 3 years in the Staffordshire Volunteer Artillery. He served during the Great War as a Signaller with the 1st Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles, on the Western Front from 22 September 1915, before transferring to the Canadian Army Ordnance Corps on 1 March 1917. He was advanced Staff Sergeant on 24 October 1918, and for his services during the Great War was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal.

Sold with a mounted group photograph of the Signallers, 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles; a 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles cap badge; and a large quantity of copied research.