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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 810

(x) A fine Campaign and Long Service group of six awarded to Acting Warrant Officer 1st Class A. Nunn, Royal Army Medical Corps

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein (11382 Pte. A. Nunn. R.A.M.C); King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (11382 Pte. A. Nunn. R.A.M.C.); 1914 Star (11382 Cpl. A. Nunn. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (11382 A.W.O. Cl.1 A. Nunn. R.A.M.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (11382 Sjt: A. Nunn. R.A.M.C.), the first two worn with contact marks, the fifth with replacement ring suspension, good fine (6)


Albert Nunn was born in 1879 at St Pancras, London, and attested for the Medical Staff Corps at Aldershot on 8 January 1897, his papers noting previous service with the Militia Medical Staff Corps. A milkman by trade, he was appointed 3rd Class Orderly on 17 June 1897 at Netley, before serving in South Africa from 24 October 1899 to 2 January 1903. Whilst stationed at Wynberg he came down with a mild infection of scarlet fever and required 44 days in hospital to recover. Returning home and posted to the military hospital at Netley, he passed a course of instruction as a Cook in July 1904 and gained a Certificate in High Class Cookery shortly thereafter.

Following a further five-year period of service in South Africa, Nunn served with the British Expeditionary Force in France from 20 August 1914. He briefly returned home and married Margaret Crowther, a widow with 4 children, at Eltham on 6 August 1915. Awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal in April 1917, Nunn was considered for discharge at Blackpool in September 1918 suffering from neurasthenia; sold with copied service record and MIC.

Provenance: Downies Auction, February 2005.


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Sold for
£290

Starting price
£210