Name
Walter J Charles Nickels*1
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/11/1917
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
13970
Duke of Lancaster’s Own Yeomanry
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GAZA WAR CEMETERY
XIX. E. 4.
Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Ware Town Memorial, St Mary’s Church Memorial, Ware
Pre War
Born in 1895 in Winchmore Hill and baptised on 11 Aug 1895 in St Mark’s Enfield son of Walter John and Elizabeth Nickels later of The Waggon and Horses, Ware, Hertfordshire.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford formerly 1982 Hertfordshire Yeomanry, entered the Eastern Mediterranean on 9 Sep 1915 and was killed in action in Palestine.
Additional Information
In SDITGW as William C Nickels but elsewhere as Walter Charles Nickels. *1 we believe this man appears on the St Mary's Roll of Honour as Walter J Nickels and the W J C Nickels on the Town Memorial.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
