Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private G. C. Nicoll, Southern Nigeria Regiment, late Natal Police, who died of blackwater fever in Southern Nigeria in 1904

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2342 Tpr: G. C. Nicoll. Natal Police) clasps mounted in this order with many unofficial rivets; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, S. Nigeria 1904 (G. C. Nicoll. S. N. Regt.) together with related miniature medals and small Natal Police badge and tunic button, all contained in a Boer War Christmas tin, nearly extremely fine (6) £300-£400

Sold with a manuscript note which states: ‘Medals & Chocolate Box given by Queen Victoria to the forces in the Boer War, belonged to Geoffrey Claude Nicoll. Died 1904 at Old Calabar on the Cross River, Nigeria, from blackwater fever.’