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Auction: 26001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 99

Four: Private A. Nicholson, 12th (Prince of Wales's) Royal Lancers

South Africa 1834-53 (A. Nicholson. 12th Lancers.); Crimea 1854-56, 1 clasp, Sebastopol (Pte A. Nicholson. 12th Lancs), engraved naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-58, 1 clasp, Central India (A, Nicholson, 12th Lancers); Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, fitted with replacement Crimea style suspension, very fine (4)

Andrew Nicholson was born in Maidstone, Kent and enlisted into the 12th Lancers on 15 July 1846. He is confirmed on the Crimea, South Africa and Indian Mutiny medal rolls respectively. In 1851 the 12th Lancers moved to Cape Colony to fight in the Eighth Frontier War. They then served during the Crimean War, reinforcing the Light Brigade in 1855 after its infamous charge at Balaklava the previous year. Two years later they then were posted to India in order to assist the suppression of the Mutiny, remaining there until 1860. Nicholson died on the return from India aboard H.M.S. Trafalgar on 26 April 1860.

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Estimate
£600 to £800

Starting price
£480