Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

SACRED
TO THE
MEMORY
OF
E NICHOL
KILLED
IN
FRANCE
1918
D BOLDERY
1917

REST
IN
PEACE

In 1919 George Greatorex NICHOL (1862-1931)
of "The Pines", local settler and timber-getter,
felled a large bloodwood tree on his property
and from it single-handedly adzed a memorial
to his son Edward Nichol, and to his nephew
David Bolgery, both of whom gave their lives
in the service of their country in Europe
during the Great War 1914-1918

This memorial was originally erected in the
grounds of the then Bowling Green State School
(previously, Bowling Green Provisional School), the
local school attended by Edward and David - both
enrolled the day the school first opened,
29-2-1904 - and with the transfer of the school
and the removal of the school building to Aramara
North in 1948 the memorial was also uplifted to
the school's new site.

Edward NICHOL, born 28/1/1893
31st Bn AIF, No 4782
Killed in Action 9/8/1918
Villers-Bretonneux, France
Interred at Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres, France

David William BOLDERY, born 13/2/1897
52nd Bn AIF No 3120
Killed in Action 28/8/1917
Menin, Ypres, Belgium
Interred at The Ypres (Menin Gate) Cemetery, Belgium

LEST WE FORGET

This plaque was erected in 1999 by the descendants of George Greatorex NICHOL

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