A MAN’S First World War medals have been presented to a military museum.
Edward Nicholls, from Colchester, served in the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry between 1914 and 1918. Town MP Bob Russell handed over his medals to the regimental museum in Bodmin.
Mr Nicholls, who died in the Sixties, transferred to the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers after the war and worked at 36 Command Workshops in Colchester.
He lived in Canterbury Road, New Town, before moving to Alresford.
His only son, David, recently moved into a care home and was keen his father’s medals should be donated to the museum.
Mr Russell said he was “delighted” to hand over the medals during his recent holiday in Cornwall.
He said: “This had added significance when I discovered only three days earlier the medals of the last First World War soldier, Harry Patch, had been donated to the same museum.”
Mr Patch, who died last month aged 111, served with the same regiment on the Western Front.
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