Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The mounted group of three miniature dress medals attributed to Lieutenant-Commander R. G. I. Nicholl, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-20, 8 clasps, Narrow Seas 1914, Mediterranean 1915, Gallipoli, North Sea 1916, Jutland 31 May ‘16, North Sea 1917, North Sea 1918, Belgian Coast; Victory Medal 1914-19, mounted as worn and housed in a Gieves, London, fitted case, extremely fine (3) £240-£280

Robert George Iltyd Nicholl was born on 14 November 1898 and joined the Royal Navy as a Midshipman on 2 August 1914. He served during the Great War in H.M.S. Venerable from August 1914 to 10 December 1915, seeing service in the Dardanelles campaign and at Gallipoli; and then in H.M.S. St. Vincent from 8 March 1916 to 14 December 1918, serving in her at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916. He was promoted Sub-Lieutenant on 15 November 1917, and Lieutenant on 15 December 1918, and retired at his own request with a gratuity on 2 July 1920. He was promoted Lieutenant-Commander on the Retired List on 15 December 1926, and was briefly recalled for duty during the early stages of the Second World War, before reverting to the Retired List in November 1940.