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QSA (4) Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill (13647 Dr: E. Penney, A.S.C.);
[ KSA (2) ]

Surname Penny on the KSA roll, WO100/350p. Similarly on the QSA roll, WO100/213p64.

Hammer GBP 70.

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QSA (2) Cape Colony, Orange Free State (7651 Corl. P. Nicholas. A.S.C.);
KSA (2) (7651 Serjt. P. Nicholas. A.S.C.);
Army MSM GVI, 1st issue (S/7651 W.O. Cl. 2. P. Nicholas. R.A.S.C.);
Army LS&GC Ed VII (S.Q.M. Sjt: P. Nicholas. A.S.C.)

Pearse Nicholas, a Baker from Marylebone, London, was born around 1867. He attested into the Army Service Corps, aged 20, in 1887, and served in South Africa during the Boer War. His LS&GC was awarded with gratuity on 1 April 1908, and he was discharged after 21 years service, as a Company Sergeant Major, on 19 September 1908. He appears in the London Gazette on 2 February 1915 as a War Office established civilian employee working in the Supply Reserve Depot and was placed on the Army Register for the award of a MSM with gratuity on 17 August 1917, following a recommendation of 25 August 1915.