Name
Victor George Nicholls
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
74151
Royal Engineers
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Elstree Town Memorial, Church of St Nicholas Memorial, Elstree, Falfield Memorial, Gloucestershire
Pre War
Victor George was born n 1891 in Falfield, Gloucestershire, to George Nicholls, a sub postmaster, and Annie, a post office assistant, (nee Pritchard). On the 1891 Census the family were living at the Post Office, Falfield.
On the 1911 Census he is recorded as a Post Office Clerk and he was boarding with George Martin at Kent Villa, Summer Grove , Elstree.
Wartime Service
He attested as a Territorial on 7 Oct 1914 in SA.T Signal Coy Royal Engineers at Birmingham as a Telegraphist and his address as Post Office, Elstree.. He also attested on 26 Dec 1914 as Sapper 74131 in the Corps of Royal Engineers, giving his occupation as Post Office Telegraphist and address as Post Office, Falfield (his Mother’s address). Victor went to B.E.F. in France on 18 Jul 1915 or 20 Jul 1915 as a Signaller. He was returned to UK on 24 Dec 1915 having reported sick and been diagnosed as Tubercular. Victor was boarded and discharged as Medically Unfit on 3 Mar 1916. While awaiting further medical reports he was living at 2 Rutland Villas, Belmont Road, Uxbridge.
There is a record of a Victor George Nichols being buried in Uxbridge on 25 Nov 1916, however there is no Commonwealth War Grave Commission record of his death.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £4 10s paid to his sister Laura. Not recorded in the CWGC database.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
