Wednesday 5 May 2010

14937 Pte John Nicholas, 7th Bn, Shropshire LI

14937 Pte John Nicholas of the 7th Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry, was killed in action on the 5th May 1917. He was 26 years old, the son of Mrs. Elizabeth Nicholas, of Glanavon, Kilgerran, Pembrokeshire. Soldiers Died in The Great war notes that he was born in, and lived in Kilgerran, Pembrokeshire. He enlisted at Tonypandy.

John Nicholas has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC, WO 363)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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