Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (Herbert Nixon), in card envelope of issue, with Memorial Scroll (Pte. Herbert Nixon, Royal Army Service Corps) latter in O.H.M.S. card transmittal tube addressed to the recipient’s daughter, care of her Guardian at ‘Yealand Conyers, Carnforth, Lancashire’, very fine (2) £50-£70

Herbert Nixon was the son of Mrs. Nixon, of 24, Helmside, Oxenholme, Kendal, Westmorland, and husband of the late Helen Nixon, of Yealand Conyers, Carnforth, Lancashire (who was buried Novorossisk New Cemetery). He served during the Great War with the Royal Army Service Corps (M.T.). Private Nixon died, 25 January 1920, and is commemorated on the Haidar Pasha Memorial, Turkey.