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Bdr. William Nicholson
British Army Royal Field Artillery

(d.15th Oct 1918)
Bombardier William Nicholson served with the Royal Field Artillery and died on the 15th October 1918. He is buried in Jarrow Cemetery.
He was born at Jarrow in 1888, the son of James and Margaret Nicholson (nee Foster). The 1911 census show the family living at 12 Spencer Street, Hebburn Colliery. His father,James, is 48 and a coal mines shifter whose wife of 23 years is Margaret aged 44 years. William is 19 and a coal mines putter. His two sisters are Hannah, who is 20 and single, and Elizabeth, 19 and married for 10 months. Her married name is Poole and she has a daughter also called Elizabeth who is 9 months old.

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