Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Three: Lieutenant-Colonel A. C. Nicholson, Hampshire Yeomanry
Territorial Decoration, E.VII.R., silver and silver-gilt, the reverse hallmarked 1908, with integral top riband bar; Coronation 1902, silver; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (Capt. A. C. Nicholson. 50 Co. 17/Impl. Yeo.) contemporary court mounted by Spink and Son, London, in this order, extremely fine

Pair: Miss Ruth I. A. Nicholson
Defence Medal; Voluntary Medical Services Medal, with Additional Award Bar (Miss Ruth Isabel Agnes Nicholson) good very fine (5) £800-£1,200

Arthur Carleton Nicholson was born on 2 July 1864, the youngest son of William and Isabella Nicholson, and was educated at Winchester College and Christ Church, Oxford. He served in South Africa during the Boer War with the 50th (Hampshire) Company, 17th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, and took part in the operations in the Transvaal, January 1901; in Orange River Colony, December 1900 to May 1901; and in Cape Colony, 30 November 1900 to April 1901. The 17th and 18th Battalions I.Y. were the only Yeomanry entitled to the clasp for Rhodesia for their part in the operations in that country in 1900. For his services in South Africa Nicholson was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 10 September 1901) and received the Queen’s Medal with 5 clasps. Advanced Major and Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel on 10 August 1901, he later resided at Hartham Park, Corsham, Wiltshire, and was a J.P. and D.L. for that county, holding the office of High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1929. He died on 11 February 1945, aged 80.

Sold with two Hampshire Yeomanry (Carabiniers) collar badges; and a photographic image of the recipient.