Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private A. Nicholson, West Yorkshire Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (5065 Pte. A. Nicholson, W. Yorkshire Regt.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5065 Pte. A. Nicholson. W. York: Regt.) contact marks and minor edge bruising, very fine (2) £160-£200

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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Alfred Nicholson was born in Leeds in 1879 and attested for the West Yorkshire Regiment on 25 September 1897. He served with the Regiment in South Africa during the Boer War, and was discharged on 9 January 1903. He subsequently re-enlisted in the Royal Garrison Artillery on 26 August 1903, but was discharged as ‘incorrigible and worthless’ on 16 June 1904.