NICHOLAUS, Ernest
| Service Number: | 201 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 7th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse |
| Born: | 1882, place not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Toowoomba, Toowoomba, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 2 June 1950, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Drayton and Toowoomba Cemetery, Queensland |
| Memorials: |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Private, 201, 7th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse | |
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| 19 May 1902: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 201, 7th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 530 notes 7th BACH embarked at Pinkenba 19 May 1902 aboard Custodian arriving Durban 22 Jun 1902 after peace had been declared. | |
| 28 Jun 1902: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 201, 7th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 530 notes 7th BACH embarked at Durban 28 Jun 1902 aboard Manchester Merchant returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 2 Aug 1902, disbanded 9 Aug 1902. |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Claude McKelvey
Ernest William Nicolaus was reportedly born in 1882 in Queensland (no birth registration on BDM Qld), a son to Joseph Nicolaus and Mary Ann Nicolaus (nee Judge). When he enlisted in 1902 in the 7th BACH he noted his N.O.K. as his father J. Nicolaus at Perth St, Toowoomba. He married Mary Ellen Murray on 7 Nov 1906 in Queensland and they 5 children.
Two of his brothers also served in the South African (Boer) War, William Frederick S.N. 131 in the 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, and Henry S.N. 202 in the 7th Battalion, Australian Commonwealth Horse. Their services were noted in their father Joseph's obituary published in 1923. Ernest and Henry's surname has been spelt differently on various documents associated with their Boer War service.
Their details recorded with their service photo in The Queenslander newspaper, 31 May 1902, p. 1193, has their surname as Nicholans. Henry's Boer War Service Dossier, Attestation Paper (not available for Ernest), has his surname as Nicholaus which someone has corrected to Nicolaus.
(sources- AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 535; Obituary (for his father), Toowoomba Chronicle, 10 Jul 1923 p. 3).
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