Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant W. D. Nicholson, Fifeshire and Forfarshire Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (9139 Sgt. W. D. Nicholson, 20th. Coy. 6th Imp. Yeo:); Coronation 1911 (44 S.Q.M.S. W. D. Nicholson. F. & F.Y.) contemporarily engraved naming; Imperial Yeomanry L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (44 Sjt: W. D. Nicholson. F. & F. I.Y.) light contact marks, very fine and better (3) £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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William Drummond Nicholson served with the 20th (Fifeshire and Forfarshire) Company, 6th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in February 1905.

21 Imperial Yeomanry Long Service and Good Conduct Medals awarded to the Fifeshire and Forfarshire Yeomanry, including one to ‘37 Sergeant W. A. Nicholson’, who was also awarded his medal in February 1905 - possibly the recipient’s brother?