Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1889-92 (Lieut. S. Nicholson. 1st D.C.L.I.) good very fine £500-£700

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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Samuel Nicholson was born on 6 June 1862, and was educated at Repton School and Trinity College, Dublin, from where he graduated B.A. in 1883. He was commissioned a Lieutenant on 14 May 1884, and posted to the 1st Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry. He served with his battalion in Malta in 1885-86, and afterwards in India from 1888. He died during the Wuntho Expedition, in Burma, of sunstroke near Mansie on 19 April 1891.