Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Sergeant G. H. Nunn, Highland Light Infantry, late Royal Army Medical Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (11156 Pte. G. H. Nunn. R.A.M.C.); 1914 Star (10773 Sjt. G. H. Nunn. 2/High: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (10773 Sjt. G. H. Nunn, High. L.I.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (10773 Sjt: G. H. Nunn. 2/H.L.I.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (10773 Sjt: G. H. Nunn. High: L.I.) mounted court-style for display, edge bruise to QSA, good very fine (6) £360-£440

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Highland Light Infantry.

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M.S.M. London Gazette 19 October 1916.

George Henry Nunn was born in Paddington, London, and attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps on 30 July 1896, a shoemaker by trade, having previously served with the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. He served with them in South Africa during the Boer War from 19 November 1900 to 5 September 1902, ands was advanced Orderly First Class on 1 August 1901. He transferred to the Highland Light Infantry on 23 April 1907, and was appointed Shoemaker, being advanced Sergeant Shoemaker on 1 May of that year. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 14 August 1914, and served for the duration of the War, being awarded an ‘Immediate’ Meritorious Service Medal in October 1916, and his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 1 April 1917. He was discharged on 15 April 1919.