Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated reverse, no clasp (R. H. Nicholson, Surgn., R.N. H.M.S. Albacore.) some very light pitting from star, otherwise better than very fine £300-£400

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Egypt Medals to the Royal Navy.

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Buckland Dix & Wood, September 1994; Reverend Canon Nigel Nicholson Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, April 2020.

Approximately 51 no clasp medals awarded to H.M.S. Albacore.

Robert Howard Nicholson, the son of Captain Huntley Nicholson, late 1st Foot and 42nd Highlanders (M.G.S. & A. of I.), trained at the London Hospital and was commissioned Surgeon in the Royal Navy on 26 February 1883. He served in the composite gun-boat H.M.S. Albacore from 18 March 1884 to 27 June 1887, seeing active service in that ship during the Sudanese campaign of 1884. Promoted Staff Surgeon on 26 February 1895, and Fleet Surgeon on 26 February 1903, he was placed on the Retired List at his own request on 1 March 1914 and died in Blackheath on 19 March 1934.

Sold with copied service record and medal roll extract.