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Gnr. John Nicholls
British Army D Bty, 76th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:Bilston, Wolverhampton
(d.24th April 1917)
John Nicholls is my mom's great uncle. So young.
Pte. Joseph Nicholls
British Army 2nd Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment
from:Wombourne
(d.15th August 1916)
Pte. Percy Nicholls
British Army 8th Battalion Royal Fusiliers
from:Murray Road, South Ealing
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Pte. Thomas Alfred Nicholls
British Army 71st Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
(d.7th Jun 1917)
Stoker 1st Class. William Nicholls
Royal Navy HMS Invincible
from:Winson Green, Birmingham.
(d.31st May 1916)
William Nicholls served on HMS Invincible and was killed in action on 31st May 1916, aged 21. He is commemorated on Panel 19 in the Portsmouth Naval Memorial in Portsmouth. He was the son of Thomas and Amy Nicholls, of 7/60, Peel St., Winson Green, Birmingham.
Pte. William Nicholls
British Army North Staffordshire Regiment
from:Stone, Staffordshire
(d.13th Oct 1915)
My Great Uncle Bill was the younger brother of George Nicholls who grew up together in Stone. Their father was James Nicholls and mother Eliza Salt. They had a sister Charlotte Nicholls also called Charlotte Salt. He was killed at the Battle of Loos on 13th October 1915 and his memorial is at the Battle of Loos Memorial. If anybody has more information that would be great.
Mjr. George Nichols
British Army 82nd Brigade Royal Field Artillery
George Nichols served with 82nd Bde and was wounded in 1917. He returned in March 1918. He published his 1918 memoirs as "Defiance! Withstanding The Kaiserlacht". This was published in 1919 under censorship so a lot of information was redacted. The book has now been reissued by Pen and Sword Ltd and is one of the few in print histories of this Kitchener Second Army brigade.
Pte. Owen Nichols
British Army 7th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
from:130 Finsleygate, Burnley, Lancashire
(d.25th Oct 1916)
Owen Nichols was the husband of Sarah Jane Nichols. He most likely died fighting the Battle of the Ancre Heights, he was aged 40. He is buried in Grandcourt Road Cemetery, Grandcourt, Somme, France.
Walter Henry Nichols
Merchant Navy HMHS Panama
from:Southampton
Merchant Mercantile Marine Walter Henry Nichols, was a survivor of the Titanic, he served on Troop ships at the start of WW1 as part of the catering crew. He sailed in the same capacity aboard HMHS Panama leaving Southampton on 3rd October 1918 remained sea continuously until returning to Southampton, until 9th May 1919. We, the family descendants, know of all his sailings from 1891 on various ships until 1929, but no idea where the Panama went between the two dates given. Can anyone help us?
Pte. William Joseph Nichols
British Army 7th Battallion Sherwood Foresters
from:Leadenham
(d.7th July 1916)
William Nichols served with the Lincolnshire Regiment and 7th Sherwood Foresters.
Alfred Charles Nicholson
British Army Manchester Regiment
from:41 Collygate Rd., Meadows, Nottingham
My grandfather Alf was born in 1886. By the outbreak of War he was married with a child. When this photo was taken, in 1917, he had two. I had assumed, as he was deaf, that he did not get conscripted. I have just obtained this photo of him in uniform but I cannot identify the hat badge.
Editors Note: The cap badge is that of the Manchester Regiment.
L Cpl C R Nicholson
British Army 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.14th Jul 1917)
Nicholson, C, R. Lance Corporal 19/2, Died on 14th July 1917.
Buried in Tincourt New British Cemetery, in grave I. B. 1.
CWGC show his Service Number as 1912 in error. 19th Battalion Records show him as 19/2. Believed he was only the second other rank to enlist in the Battalion.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
Pte. Charles B. Nicholson
British Army 8th Btn. Yorks and Lancs Regiment
from:Middlesbrough, England
(d.27th Oct 1917)
Pte. Chzarles Nicholson served with the Yorks and Lancs Regiment 8th Battalion.He was executed for desertion on 27th October1917 and is buried in Longuenesse (St. Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, St. Omer, France.
It took less than ten minutes to sentence the teenage soldier to death. The evidence came from his platoon sergeant, who told the court that the private had gone AWOL following a bombing raid. The only defence was an 11-word statement from Charles. He said: "When the bomb dropped, I got nervous. I can't say anything else." The private, from Middlesbrough, had joined the 8th Yorkshire and Lancaster Regiment aged 16, lying about his age.
Two days after his execution, in October 1917, Charles' twin brother John was killed by German machine-guns at Ypres. When their mother got the telegram telling her that both her twin sons had died - one executed for desertion - she had a nervous breakdown. Charles' niece Doris Conroy, 80, of Glasgow, says: "The disgrace was a lot to live with. My dad never told me how his brother died - I only found out 15 years ago when I saw his name in a newspaper." Since then she has battled for a pardon for her uncle and has visited his grave in France. She says: "The gravestone just said, 'Loved in life, lamented in death'. Seeing where he was buried has made me more determined to get justice for him. He was just a teenager who got frightened and ran. I believe he was then murdered by a government which wanted to make an example of him. This government should be asking for a pardon for the young, brave soldiers who died for absolutely no reason.
The mass pardon of 306 British Empire soldiers executed for certain offences during the Great War was enacted in section 359 of the Armed Forces Act 2006, which came into effect on royal assent on 8th November 2006.
Pte. Cyril Howard Nicholson CdG.
British Army 25th Btn. Machine Gun Corps
from:Huyton, Liverpool
(d.12th Oct 1918)
Cyril H. Nicholson is buried in Terlincthun Cemetery, Wimille, France. He died in hospital at Charleville after being taken prisoner on 9th April 1918. We only have a couple of letters from friends to his family, his tiny diary of imprisonment and a framed piece of Croix de Guerre ribbon (Belgian). There is a story that he met his brother Reginald Willam Nicholson on the battlefield. This must have been very emotional as Reginald had emigrated to Australia in 1905/6. He enlisted at St. Kilda on 17th August 1914, Number 940, Australian Imperial Force, 2FAB. I do not know what his progress to France/Belgium was, except that he sailed on HMS Shropshire. Reginald survived to return to his parents' home in Tarbock Road, Huyton, and remained single, dying at his cousin's house in October 1960, age 73. He was a very lovely man, a great uncle and I'm sure Cyril was the same, if only we had had the chance to know him.
Pte. Cyril Howard Nicholson CdG.
British Army 25th Battalion Machine Gun Corps
from:Huyton
(d.12th Oct 1918)
Cyril Nicholson died as a POW after being taken prisoner on 9th of April 1918 at Ploegsteert Wood, near Falk Farm. He was hospitalised and died there due to malnutrition and dysentry. I am a great niece. We have no medals for Cyril,though there is a scrap of ribbon in a brooch for the Belgian Croix de Guerre. He was reburied at Terlincthen. If you have any info we would be grateful.
His brother had joined up on 17th of August 1914 at St.Kilda Victoria, Australia with 9th Battalion, Australian Imperial Army and survived, never returning to Australia, but living at Edenvale, Tarbock Rd, Huyton, Lancs.
Should you have any info for either brother, do please pass it on as I am trying to fit their movements together. We know they had a reunion somewhere in France or Belgium. Thank you
Pte. David Nicholson
British Army 9th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
from:Edinburgh
(d.6th Jun 1917)
David Nicholson is buried in St Nicolas British Cemetery, Arras.
S/Sjt Mjr. Edgar Nicholson DCM
British Army Northumberland Hussars
from:Darlington
Edgar Nicholson volunteered to join the Army on 6 January 1897, and was sent to India with 1st Bn Durham Light Infantry. From India, he sailed for South Africa in 1900 on the outbreak of the Boer War, serving right through to the conclusion of hostilities, much of the time as a member of a DLI mounted infantry unit (Burmah Mounted Infantry?). His South Africa medals carry clasps for the Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal and Langs Nek.
ollowing transfer to the Reserve in 1905, and final termination of engagement in 1909, he joined the Northumberland Hussars to become a member of the Territorial Army, quickly reaching the rank of Sergeant.The Regiment was mobilised upon declaration of war in 1914 and was well established in Belgium by October. He was mentioned in dispatches on 20 November 1914 (during the first battle of Ypres) and again on 14 January 1915(London Gazette, 17 Feb 1915). On 22 March 1917, now in the rank of SSM, he was in command of a "party" sent to protect a detachment of three artillery pieces defending part of the line of the canal at Jussy. He had a company of the 5th Lancers on his right, and a company of the "Scottish Rifles" on his left. The Germans broke through on the left and during the withdrawal he was wounded by rifle fire and evacuated to England for hospitalisation.
He was exceptionally fortunate in his subsequent lengthy convalescence which was spent at a country house military hospital where his wife was cook and resident there with their small daughter. He did not return to France, but remained with the colours until 20 February 1919.
Pte. Edmund Nicholson
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Edward Pearson Nicholson
British Army 2nd/4th Btn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Arnley, Yorkshire
(d.9th Oct 1918)
Edward Nicholson served with the 2nd/4th Btn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
Stwd. Frank Eastman Nicholson
Merchant Marine HMS Avoca
from:Southampton
Frank Nicholson served as a steward aboard HMS Avoca from 1916 to 1918, we know no other information.
Gdsm. Frederick Nicholson
British Army Grenadier Guards
Frederick Nicholson served with the Guards.
George Nicholson
British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers
from:Annan
(d.30th June 1916)
Rflmn. George Edgar Nicholson
South African Mounted Rifles 5th Regt.
(d.24th April 1918)
Rifleman Nicholson was the Son of Samuel Nicholson, of Hatfield, Herts.
He was 39 and is buried in the Obobogorop Cemetery, Northern Cape, South Africa
Sjt. J. Nicholson
Army 2/8th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. James William Nicholson
British Army Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Aston, Birmingham
Pte. John Nicholson
British Army 9th Battalion Durham Light Infantry
from:Heworth, County Durham
(d.8th Feb 1916)
John Nicholson was my grandmother's younger brother who was only 19 when killed in action in France.
Spr. John Nicholson
Canadian Army 1st Canadian Tunnelling Coy.
from:285 Vancouver Avenue Nanaimo, British Columbia
(d.25th Mar 1917)
Pte. John Brown Nicholson
British Army 10th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:24 Dinsdale Street, Ryhope, Co. Durham
(d.16th Sep 1916)
Pte. John Nicholson
British Army 21st Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Bedlington
(d.30th June 1916)
John Nicholson died from the effects of gas in the military hospital at Rouen and is buried in St Sever Cemetery, Rouen. He had two daughters, the youngest he saw only once as his wife was pregnant when he went to France. He got compassionate leave to see her.
He was born at Sherrif Hill, Gateshead. His brother James, died the following day, July 1st, on the attack near La Boiselle and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial as his body was never found.
Pte. John Henry Nicholson
British Army Lancashire Fusiliers
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