Name
George Henry Nicholson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/08/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
33725
West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 42 to 47 and 162.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the St Ippolyts memorials (*1)
Pre War
The Soldiers Died In The Great War database records that he was born in Meanwood, Leeds and was living in Sunningdale, Berks when he enlisted in Harrogate, Yorks.
Wartime Service
Killed in Action
Additional Information
*1 George appears on the headstone commemoration in St Ippolyts Churchyard to Ellen Nicholson and therefore an association to St Ippolyts is assumed. The headstone reads:
IN EVER LOVING MEMORY OF ELLEN NICHOLSON
BORN SEPT 29TH 1880
DIED APRIL 15TH 1964
DISTRICT NURSE HERE FOR 21 YEARS
AND OF GEORGE HENRY NICHOLSON KILLED IN ACTION
AUG. 27TH 1917 AGED 37
BELOVED AND DEVOTED xx?
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
