Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A fine Great War ‘1916 Somme’ M.S.M. group of three awarded to Lance Corporal J. J. Nicholls, 5th Field Ambulance, Canadian Army Medical Corps, who died of wounds on the Western Front, 12 October 1918

British War and Victory Medals (1703 L. Cpl. J. J. Nicholls. C.A.M.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (1703 Pte J. J. Nicholls. 5/F. Amb: Can: A.M.C.); Memorial Plaque (John Jeffery Nicholls) generally nearly extremely fine (4) £400-£500

M.S.M. London Gazette 1 January 1917.

John Jeffery Nicholls was born in Kingsbridge, Devon in October 1891, and was the son of Mr and Mrs J. J. Nicholls, of 12 Barton Villas, Dawlish, Devon. Nicholls served during the Great War with the 5th Field Ambulance, Canadian Army Medical Corps on the Western Front. He was awarded the M.S.M. in recognition of ‘his splendid achievements during the 5th Field Ambulance tour of the Somme in September 1916 (Courcelette).’

Lance Corporal Nicholls, according to the CEF Burial Registers - “Died of Wounds - while with a comrade guiding a medical party in two motor ambulances to the Regimental Aid Post of the 24th Battalion, located in a Chateau on the northern outskirts of Iwuy, an enemy shell burst on the road between the cars and Private Nicholls was severely wounded in the thighs by shrapnel. He was immediately taken to No. 10 Field Ambulance where he died”. His injuries consisted of shrapnel wounds to his thighs, a fractured right femur and perineum damage.

Lance Corporal Nicholls died of wounds, 12 October 1918, and is buried in the Queant Communal Cemetery British Extension, Pas de Calais, France.

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