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Pte. Arthur Nicholls
British Army 8th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry
from:Axbridge
I don't have a lot to say about my grandad's involvement in WW1 as he did not speak about it too much, however I have found records of his involvement. Arthur Nichols enlisted with the Somerset Light Infantry on the 29th Sept 1914 and was discharged on the 18th April 1917 as he was no longer physically fit for service. He was in the 8th Battalion, and I was led to believe that he was at the Somme, it was also mentioned that on three separate occasions he was left to die in a room with others and that each time he was the only one alive in the morning: needless to say he had a very low opinion of doctors.
He married and lived the rest of his life in Birmingham where he had 4 children (my father being the youngest) and 8 grandchildren. He passed away in 1988 at the Walsgrave Hospital in Coventry, where both my daughters were born.
