NICHOLLS, Samuel Hamilton
| Service Number: | 19911 |
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| Enlisted: | 3 July 1917 |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 8th Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Hamilton, New South Wales, Australia, 8 September 1881 |
| Home Town: | Leichhardt, Leichhardt, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Tram driver |
| Died: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 2 March 1943, aged 61 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) D SW. 45. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 3 Jul 1917: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 19911, 8th Field Company Engineers | |
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| 21 Nov 1917: | Involvement Sapper, 19911, Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
| 21 Nov 1917: | Embarked Sapper, 19911, Field Company Engineers, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne | |
| 13 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 19911, 8th Field Company Engineers, 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, now resting at Sandgate Cemetery, duty nobly done.
79 years ago today, on the Thursday afternoon of the 4th March 1943, Sapper Samuel Hamilton Nicholls, 8th Australian Field Company Engineers (Reg No-19911), tram driver from 2 Carey Street, Leichhardt, New South Wales and 17 Bolton Street, Newcastle, N.S.W., father of five, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 61. METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) D SW. 45.
Born at Hamilton, New South Wales on the 8th September 1881 to Richard and Catherine (Kathrine) Annie Nicholls; husband of Mary Annie Nicholls nee Hedley (married 1901, Hamilton, N.S.W., died 1953, sleeping here), Samuel enlisted July 1917 with the Field Company Engineers Reinforcements at Redfern, N.S.W.
Admitted to hospital 13.2.1918 (influenza).
Nothing located on Trove regarding service, returning home, etc.
Sam returned home fit and well August 1919, being discharged on the 13th September 1919.
Mr. Nicholls’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name not located inscribed on any other known War Memorial or Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies in remembrance of Sam’s service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
Lest We Forget.
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