Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Chief Engine Room Artificer First Class C. W. Nichols, H.M.S. Faulknor, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (269866, C. W. Nichols, C.E.R.A.2., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (269866 C. W. Nichols. C.E.R.A.1 R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (269866 C. W. Nichols, Ch. E.R.A. 2Cl., H.M.S. Dido:) very fine (4) £100-£140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals for the Battle of Jutland.

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Provenance: Ron Tuppen Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2013.

The destroyer H.M.S. Faulknor was launched on 26 February 1914 and was the flotilla leader of the 12th Destroyer Flotilla at the Battle of Jutland.

Charles Walter Nichols was born at Brompton, London, on 13 February 1878 and joined the Royal Navy as an Acting Engine Room Artificer 4th Class on 2 October 1899. Advanced Chief Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class on 22 June 1911 he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 13 October 1914, and served during the Great War in H.M.S. Faulknor from 28 November 1914 to 2 May 1918, being promoted Chief Engine Room Artificer First Class on 20 June 1916. He was shore pensioned on 16 October 1921.