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Pte. Harold Eccleston Arthur Victor Nuttall
British Army 9th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Haslingden
(d.30th Sep 1918)
My great uncle Harold Nuttall was born on 30th June 1883 in Haslingden, Lancashire. His parents were James Thomas Kay Nuttall and Isabella Eccleston, he was one of 10 children. He enlisted in Lancashire Fusiliers but have no idea when. The only record I have of him is that he died on 30 September 1918 and is buried Chapel Corner Cemetery, Sauchy-Lestree. Would really like to know where he fought and how he died. Did he take part in the Battle of the Somme ??
Editor's Note: Sauchy-Lestrée was captured by the 56th (London) Division on 27th September 1918 and the cemetery was made and used by fighting units during the following five weeks.
Gnr. Robert Nuttall
British Army 149th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:Bury
(d.15th Oct 1916)
V was killed in action on the 15th of October 1916 aged 25. He lies in the Grove Town Cemetery, Meaulte. Son of Mrs Nuttall of 13 Park Street, Bury, Lancashire.
Pte. Tom Nuttall
British Army 20th (Tyneside Scottish) Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
Tom Nuttall was my maternal grandfather who fought in WW1. He was born on 28 February 1891 in Bury, Lancashire. He joined the Tyneside Scottish and went off to war when he must have been 22 or 23yrs old. This is what I know of his story in the war.
Going over the top whilst fighting he was gassed in both lungs as well as shot in the chest and was left lying for an indeterminable time in no man’s land, assumed to be dead. His body, still breathing, was later found by the Germans and he was pulled behind their lines and taken to what I assume was a German field hospital. Both lungs were badly damaged and a German surgeon removed the one lung which was irreparable, and left one damaged lung remaining. This surgeon cared for my grandfather and was the main cause of bringing Tom back to life. I gather that the surgeon spoke English and that he let slip (intentionally?) clues as to where the field hospital was in relation to the lines.
When my grandfather had recovered enough energy he somehow managed to escape from the hospital and with the clues he had gathered whilst he was a sick and wounded patient he managed to find his way back to the British lines. I don’t know how long that journey took, or how he made it. I believe that despite his wounds he went on to fight again before the war ended.
His one remaining damaged lung meant that he always had trouble breathing for the rest of his life, but he never complained. He died in his 60s. Like so many men he rarely talked of his war experiences, but my mother (his daughter) when she was young used to listen outside the door on occasions when his few surviving friends would visit him at home and they would share tales of their harrowing war experiences together. She was fascinated and later, when she was an adult herself, she asked him questions and got the story.
L/Cpl. Wilson Nuttall
British Army 8th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Blackburn
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Wilson Nuttall served with the 8th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. At the time of his death, his Battalion were engaged in the Battle of the Somme. He has no known grave but is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.
Sergeant James Halstead Nutter MM with Bar
British Army Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Scarrs, Briercliffe
An account of James Halstead Nutter's gallant act may be seen in the Burnley News on Saturday, 27th January 1917
Pte. James Nutter
British Army 9th Battalion Cheshire Regiment
from:Colne, Lancashire
My great grandfather, James Nutter, enlisted on 18th November 1914 in his home town of Colne, Lancashire. He initially was posted to the 15th battalion of the King’s Liverpool Regiment then transferred to the 9th Battalion, Cheshire Regiment in November 1915. In December 1915 he was shipped to France.
On 30th July 1916 James was injured in the right thigh by a shell. The wound resulted in the amputation of his right leg. He was sent back home in August 1916 and officially discharged from service in August 1917. He returned home to his wife Ethel May and had at least one more child, my grandfather, Harry Nutter.
Pte. William Nutter
British Army 76th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Burnley
(d.29th May 1918)
William Nutter died of wounds on 29th May 1918, aged 22. Buried in the Marfaux British Cemetery in France, he was the son of Mr. Robert & Mrs. Elizabeth Nutter, of 12, Daneshouse Rd., Burnley
William worked in the Tram shed at Burnley prior to enlisting. He was wounded in the hip on 27/05/1918 at a French Casualty Clearing Station by shrapnel and later taken to No.48 Casualty Clearing Station. The following day, according to a returned prisoner who contacted his parents after the war, "We were all taken prisoner and your son died on the 29th and was buried at a place called Montigny."
Pte. William Nutter
British Army 1st/5th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
(d.4th June 1915)
William Nutter died 4th June 1915 and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey
Pte. William Nutton
British army 13th Battalion East Lancashire Regiment
(d.6th Nov 1918)
Pte. Albert Nuttycombe
British Army 9th Btn. Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Lambeth, london
(d.4th October 1917)
Pte. Michael Nylands
British Army 5th Btn. Border Regiment
from:89 Ford Street, Liverpool.
(d.6th Nov 1918)
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