Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Major N. E. Nicholson, Northumberland Fusiliers, later Home Guard
1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Army Council enclosure for the first and third, in named card box of issue addressed to ‘Major N. E. Nicholson, Moor House, Byton-on-Tyne, Co. Durham’; and with Home Secretary’s enclosure for the Defence Medal; together with two Sedburgh Preparatory School Prize Medals, bronze; and a Tyne Garrison Medallion 1914-1918, silver, attributed to the recipient’s Father, Lieutenant-Colonel J. H. Nicholson, Tynemouth Royal Garrison Artillery, nearly extremely fine

Pair: Attributed to Sergeant Miss Kathleen E. Nicholson, Royal Air Force
Defence and War Medals, with Air Council enclosure, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Miss K. E. Nicholson, 2, Holly Ave., Newton-leWilows, Lancs.’, the address marked through, but still (just) legible; together with a R.A.F. cap badge and portrait photograph of the recipient, extremely fine (lot) £60-£80

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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Norris Edmond Nicholson was born on 8 April 1909, the fourth son of Lieutenant-Colonel John Hodgson Nicholson, Tynemouth Royal Garrison Artillery, and was educated at Sedburgh Preparatory School and Charterhouse. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers on 5 November 1927, and served during the Second World War as a Major in the Northumberland Fusiliers, and post-War in the Home Guard. He died at Marley Hill, Co. Durham, on 7 November 1954.

Sold with a Home Guard Certificate of Appreciation 1952-56, named to ‘Major Norris Edmond Nicholson’, in a glazed display frame; and a portrait caricature of the recipient, captioned ‘Major “Norrie” Nicholson’, and dated 1946, in a glazed display frame.