Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Major-General O. H. A. Nicolls, Royal Artillery

Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol, unnamed as issued; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Perak (Major O. H. A. Nicolls. 9th By. 2nd Bde. R.A.); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, unnamed, mounted on modern buckle bar, the Crimea pair with later ribbon slide buckles, nearly very fine or better

Oliver Henry Atkins Nicolls was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 21 December 1853; Lieutenant on 20 June 1854; Captain on 1 April 1860; Major on 5 July 1872; Lieutenant-Colonel on 19 July 1876; Colonel on 1 July 1881; Major-General on 27 August 1890; and Commanding Royal Artillery, Malta, on 1 May 1891. Major-General Nicolls served in the Crimean campaign of 1854 until October of that year. He also served the campaign of 1855 from September, including the siege and fall of Sebastopol (Medal with Clasp, and Turkish Medal). Nicolls was in command of the Royal Artillery throughout the operations in Perak in 1875-77 under Major-General the Hon. Sir F. Colborne, including the advance on and capture of Kinta in December 1875 (Brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel, Medal with Clasp).