Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Battle of the Aisne’ M.M. and ‘2nd Battle of the Somme’ Second Award Bar group of four awarded to Sergeant T. P. Nicholson, Durham Light Infantry

Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (300168 L. Cpl. T. Nicholson. 1/8 Durh: L.I.); 1914-15 Star 2076 Pte. T. Nicholson. Durh: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (2076 Sjt. T. Nicholson. Durh. L.I.) some light contact pitting, otherwise very fine and better (4) £800-£1,000

M.M. London Gazette 21 October 1918. One of seven awards to the 1/8th Battalion in the March Offensive at the Battle of the Aisne, 27 May-6 June 1918.

M.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 20 August 1919. Awarded for service with the 15th Battalion D.L.I. during the 2nd Battle of the Somme, 23 August 1918.

Thomas Pringle Nicholson was born at Haswell, county Durham, on 14 July 1894. A coal miner by trade, he attested for the Durham Light Infantry on 1 April 1913, aged 18 years 9 months. He served initially with the 8th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 20 April 1915, and later transferred to the 15th Battalion, being awarded the Military Medal with the first unit, and the Second Award Bar with the latter Battalion. He was discharged in the rank of Sergeant on 11 January 1919, with gun shot wound in neck and right thigh and shell gas poisoning, and died at Durham during the first quarter of 1971.

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