Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Punniar Star 1843 (Private William Nicholson 50th Queen’s Own Regt.) fitted with adapted straight bar suspension, very fine £400-£500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals formed by the Reverend Canon Nigel Nicholson, OStJ, DL.

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William Nicholson enlisted into the 50th Regiment at Kendal on 8 June 1841, and joined his regiment in India on 1 April 1842. He served in the Gwalior campaign including the battle of Punniar, 29 December 1843, and in the Sutlej campaign of 1845-46 during which he was wounded at the battle of Moodkee on 18 December 1845. After a period in hospital at Calcutta, Nicholson was invalided home and discharged at Chatham on 13 March 1849.