Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Commodore M. S. Nicholson, Royal Naval Reserve and Mercantile Marine

Transport 1899-1902, 1 clasp, S. Africa 1899-1902 (M. S. Nicholson.); 1914-15 Star (Commr. N. [sic] S. Nicholson, R.N.R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt. M. S. Nicholson. R.N.R.); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (Morris S. Nicholson); Victory Medal 1914-19 (Capt. M. S. Nicholson. R.N.R.); Royal Naval Reserve Decoration, E.VII.R., silver and silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1909; together with a Thames Nautical Training College H.M.S. Worcester medal, silver, the reverse engraved ‘General Good Conduct Morris Stanley Nicholson Midsummer 1885’, with double-dolphin suspension, good very fine (7) £800-£1,000

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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Provenance: Christie’s, November 1983.

R.D. London Gazette 9 November 1909

Morris Stanley Nicholson was born on 20 February 1868 and entered the service of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company as 4th Officer in January 1893. He was commissioned Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve on 15 October 1895, and in the Mercantile Marine was advanced Chief Officer in October 1897, serving in S.S. Orotava during the Boer War. Having been awarded his Royal Naval Reserve Decoration in 1909, he was advanced Commander in the Royal Naval Reserve on 3 August 1912, and served in the R.N.R. during the Great War, being advanced Captain. For his services during the Great War his name was ‘brought to the notice of the Admiralty for valuable services in the prosecution of the War’ (London Gazette 16 September 1919). Nicholson was advanced Commodore, R.N.R., on 1 January 1927, and retired on 31 December of that year.

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