Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant R. A. C. Nicholson, Royal Army Service Corps

1914-15 Star (2/Lieut. R. A. C. Nicholson. R.A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. R. A. C. Nicholson. R.A.S.C.) in named card boxes of issue; Defence Medal, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. R. A. C. Nicholson, 9 Fairfax Road, London, NW6’, the Great War awards all official replacements and impressed as such (as are the boxes of issue), extremely fine (4) £60-£80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals formed by the Reverend Canon Nigel Nicholson, OStJ, DL.

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Ralph Albert Christie Nicholson was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps on 4 November 1914, and served during the Great War in the Salonika theatre of War from December 1915.

Sold with the recipient’s two original commission Documents, the first appointing him to a Temporary Commission in the Army Service Corps, dated 4 November 1914, the second appointing him to a permanent Commission in the Army Service Corps, dated 3 November 1916; and various group postcard photographs.