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Military service
Service number:
180924
Age:
19
Rank:
Sapper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Engineers
Division:
1st Tunnelling Coy.
Birth:
September 13, 1897
Death:
March 25, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. D. 19.
Additional information
Son of John and Elizabeth A. Nicholson, of 285, Vancouver Avenue, Nanaimo, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Sapper John Nicholson
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Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of April 6, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y100uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
Wartime diary
Of the 1st Canadian Tunneling Company for March 1917. Image taken from web address of http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/lac-bac/results/images?module=images&SortSpec=score+desc&Language=eng&ShowForm=hide&SearchIn_1=mikanNumber&SearchInText_1=2004898&Operator_1=AND&SearchIn_2=&SearchInText_2=&Operator_2=AND&SearchIn_3=&SearchInText_3=&Level=&MaterialDateOperator=after&MaterialDate=&DigitalImages=1&Source=&ResultCount=10 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of January 13, 1918. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist59y343uvic/mode/1up?view=theater
Digital gallery of
Sapper John Nicholson
Digital gallery of
Sapper John Nicholson
Digital gallery of
Sapper John Nicholson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 301 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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