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Military service
Service number:
106462
Age:
30
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
1st Canadian Mounted Rifles (Saskatchewan Regt.)
Birth:
February 25, 1886
Death:
June 2, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 30 and 32
Digital gallery of Sergeant Edgar Frederick Nicholson
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Photo of Edgar Frank Nicholson
Sergeant Edgar Frank Nicholson 'killed on 2nd June (1916) and died like a man and a soldier should. He was in the trench with the other men and myself and was hit by a bullet and never knew it' (Comrade who was a POW). He 'was a young man of strong force of character and of bright and happy temperament and leaves many friends behind him both in England and Canada' (Ilford Recorder 27 November 1916) -
Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate, photo courtesy of Marg Liessens.
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Edgar Frederick Nicholson
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Edgar Frederick Nicholson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 142 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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