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  • NICHOLSON
  • AM
  • ARTHUR MARSHALL
  • Brighton
  • Victoria, Australia
  • Brighton
  • Son of Samuel Henry and Hannah Eliza Nicholson.
  • State School, Brighton
  • Grocer

Military service

  • Enlisted Melbourne, Victoria, 7 July 1915
  • 3368
  • Private
  • 1914/15 Star Medal, Victory Medal, British War Medal
  • 5th Bn. Australian Infantry
  • 2nd Brigade
  • 1st Australian Division
  • A.I.F.
  • He embarked from Melbourne for Egypt on 11 October 1915 with the 11th reinforcements of 5 Battalion. Nicholson served in Egypt until 25 March 1916 when he embarked for France, arriving at Marseilles five days later. He served in France and took part in his unit's first major action in France, at Pozieres in the Somme Valley, in July 1916. On 24 December 1916 Private Nicholson was admitted to hospital with trench feet. He was sent to England and was in hospital until May 1917. He undertook further training at Perham Downs for two months before rejoining his unit in Belgium in late August 1917.

Death

  • 21 September, Menin road
  • Died of shrapnel wounds in his left leg and ankle at n° 17 CCS
  • 21 September 1917
  • 30
  • XXIII - D - 15

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