The John Chidzey Collection

A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Sergeant S. C. Nother, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

Military Medal, G.V.R. (6551 L. Sjt. S. C. Nother, 17/K.R.R.C.); 1914 Star (6551 Pte. S. C. Nother, 2/K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (6551 Sjt. S. C. Nother, K.R. Rif. C.), generally very fine or better (4) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The John Chidzey Collection.

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M.M. London Gazette 28 January 1918.

Nother, who was from Winchester, Hampshire, first entered the French theatre of war in the 2nd Battalion, K.R.R.C., in mid-August 1914.

His unit witnessed plenty of action thereafter, not least at Chemin des Dames in November 1914, when the Battalion suffered losses of over 300 killed, wounded or missing. A further 100 casualties were sustained in a night attack on Pilckem, and, after bitter hand-to-hand fighting near Gheluvelt at the end of October, the unit’s strength was down to nine officers and 300 other ranks. Notwithstanding such losses, the 2/K.R.R.C. remained actively engaged on the front line throughout November, Lieutenant J. H. S. Dimmer winning the V.C. for his gallant deeds at Klein Zillebeke on the 12th.

Subsequently transferring to the 17th (British Empire League) Battalion, Nother may well have been present in the heavy fighting witnessed by that unit on the Somme in August-October 1916, prior to his M.M.-winning exploits in the following year.