A Collection of Medals to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines formed by Commander Ron Champion, RN

China 1842 (E. Nicholson, Midshipman, H.M.S. Sulphur) one or two minor edge bruises and light contact wear, very fine £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines formed by Commander Ron Champion, RN.

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Edward Nicholson, who was from the Isle of Wight, joined H.M.S. Sulphur as a College Volunteer in February 1836, aged 14 years. He subsequently served in that ship as a Midshipman off China during the First Opium War but appears to have left the Service shortly afterwards.