Donald Malcolm Nicholson BEM,MiD. Royal Canadian Air Force Armourer 433 Sqn. from Killarney Manitoba Canada Donald Malcolm Nicholson served with the Royal Canadian Air Force 433 squn.
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E Nicholson . British Army E Nicholson served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Edward Nicholson . British Army 9th (Queens Royal) Lancers from Knaresborough, Yorkshire (d.13th May 1915)
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Gdsm. Frederick Nicholson . British Army Grenadier Guards Frederick Nicholson served with the Guards.
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HST Nicholson . British Army HST Nicholson served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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L/Cpl. J Nicholson . British Army 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment L/Cpl.J Nicholson served with the 6th Btn. Royal Tank Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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J Nicholson . British Army J Nicholson served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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AB. James Beswick Nicholson . Royal Navy HMS Penelope from Batley, Yorks A friend of mine tells me her Dad, James Beswick Nicholson, served on the "Pepperpot". As a result one of her sisters is named Penelope. He served 1942 to 1945.
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L Nicholson . British Army Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry L Nicholson served with the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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LG Nicholson . British Army LG Nicholson served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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R Nicholson . British Army Royal Ulster Rifles R Nicholson served with the Royal Ulster Rifles British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Sgt. Robert Nick Nicholson . Royal Air Force air gunner. 15 Sqd from Walkington, Yorkshire. (d.18th May 1942) Sgt Nicholson was killed when Stirling W7531 crashed on the 18th of May 1942, he was 23 years old.
The crew were:
- F/O Ryan
- S/L J.C.Hall DFC MiD
- F/L N.G.R.Booth
- Sgt A.Spriggs
- F/O J.P.Ryan RCAF
- Sgt R.Maycock
- Sgt J.B.Butterworth
- Sgt F.L.Sharp
- Sgt R.Nicholson
- Sgt D.J.Jeffs, the only survivor was taken PoW and held in Stalag 8b.
For the full story see Don Jeff's Story
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Sgt. S. H. A. Nicholson . Royal Air Force 77 Sqd. Sgt Nicholson was in the same crew as my father John Gardner. Their Lancaster was shot down over Holland in the early hours of the 22nd of June 1943.
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T Nicholson . British Army Kings Liverpool Regiment T Nicholson served with the Kings Liverpool Regiment British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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Thomas Nicholson . Thomas Nicholson is commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance of Jarrow Town Hall. Can anyone provide further information?
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W Nicholson . British Army W Nicholson served with the British Army. I have his unissued dogtags, made in preparation for deployment to the Far East and would love to get them home to his family. I am happy to cover all costs. If you are a family member or can put me in touch with them please get in touch. Update: The Wartime Memories Project is no longer in contact with Dan , his website, facebook page and email have all ceased to function. But if you can add any details about the person listed, please use the add to record link below.
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F/Lt. William "Nick" Nicholson . Royal Canadian Air Force 433 Squadron from Galt, Ontario F/L William Nicholson was my step-father who was a navigator for the Leaside crew of the RCAF 433 Squadron which was a part of the famous dam-busters low flying bombing initiative. His Lancaster plane was downed by friendly fire during an October 9, 1944 bombing raid over Duisburg, Germany. The crew bailed out and each became separated, but all were captured and became German prisoners of war. My step-father and his crew were stationed prior to their last sortie at Skipton-on-Swales aerodrome near York, Yorkshire, England. My step-father married my mother, Elizabeth Rowan Stiles (a war widow with one son, me, aged 4) in York just prior to his last flight in the fall of 1944. After being released from a German Stalag in 1945 at the end of the war, my Mother and I left York, England to join him in his hometown of Galt,Ontario. Dad had worked for Savage Shoe Company in Preston prior to the war and re-joined them as a sales rep upon his return. He worked for that firm and only them loyally until his retirement in 1979 covering a period of 45 years from age 17 to age 62. He was a quiet hardworking good man, a man's man. He would not discuss his painful air force and POW days and just wanted to put those bad memories behind him. He died in 1994 at age 76 and was loved by all. We are thankful to William Nicholson and the countless other young men who sacrificed so much for our ability to be free. Thank you to all of those who served honorably and did their duty during the horrific WWII and those other conflicts during the intervening years since then.
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Sgt William Nicholson . British Army from Wheatley Hill, Co. Durham My Grandad Bill Nicholson served in Burma and India with the military Police during the war. I don't know too much about it other than when he would curse in an Indian language which he seemed to know quite well. He developed a love of curries and curry powder went on most of his food, and that he also beared a scar on his wrist where he was bitten by what was thought to be a rabid dog, for which he received a brutal treatment regime of syringes of anti-virus to the stomach area, before going out to find and kill the dog later that day. I wish I knew more. If anyone does know more I would love to hear.
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Sgt. William Nicholson . British Army Royal Military Police from Wheatley Hill, Co. Durham My grandad Bill Nicholson's service during the War took him to India and Burma and seemed to affect him deeply. He was a Sergeant with the RMP, over 6ft tall, a gentle giant and a fantastic man. Would like to know more if anyone knows anything or has seen any photos.
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Pte William Nicholson . British Army 7th Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from Ashton in Makerfield, Lancashire (d.23rd March 1945)
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F/O A N Nicholson. . RCAF 426 Sqd.
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Sgt. Edward George Nickels . Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve 78 Squadron from Wood Green, London (d.30th July 1943) Uncle Teddy died when his Halifax went down into the Channel on the night of the 29th July 1943 following a bombing raid, 17 years before I was born. He was 19. I only know that the plane was spotted on fire coming back to base before ditching. I believe one body was eventually recovered but not the wreckage.
I'd love to hear about any other families who had relatives who might have flown with Uncle Teddy.
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F/O Russell Karl Nickle . Royal Canadian Air Force nav. 419 Sqd. from North Bay, Ontario, Canada. (d.28th Dec 1944)
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WO1. Percy John Nickless . British Army from Bath
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Phyliss Nickless . Women's Royal Naval Service HMS Tern My mum Phyliss Nickless served during World War 2 as a Wren at a remote Naval Airstation called Twatt, RN HMS Tern. She has very fond memories of the time she spent there despite the extreme cold and hardship.
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Robert Nicklin . Navy HMS Dorsetshire I am a ww2 Navy veteran, I volunteered at 17 and a few months served on the cruiser HMS Dorsetshire in the action against the Bismark. She had the distinction of finishing her off with torpedoes and picking up most of the survivors.
Served on a Destroyer in the landings at Madagascar, numerous actions in the Mediterranean including three Malta convoys and, in company with
another Destroyer, sank eleven enemy ships in a three hour night action. I finished my sea duty on another Cruiser at the Normandy landings.
I kept a diary of my time in the Med and looking back now at my age I realise how lucky I was as I lost a lot of great pals and comradeship the likes of which I have never seen again.
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Robert Nicklin . Royal Navy HMS Dorsetshire My most vivid memory of WW2 out of dozens of action's that I participated in was the sinking of Hitlers pride of the german navy the Bismark, my ship had raced through gales to take part in the action H.M.S. Dorsetshire was a County class cruiser eight 8" guns when we arrived on the scene the action had just started and in the next two hour's we fired 240 eight inch shells at the Bismark and I could see our's and another ships shells smashing into her superstructure and when she was nothing more than a burning wreck we were ordered to finish her off,and as we fired three torpedoe's into her I could see hundreds of men jumping into the very rough sea,we lay off and watched her turn over and bottom up with scores of men standing on her steel plates as she slowly sank beneath the waves' the pride of the german navy was no more and H.M.S.Hood had been avenged. We then started the dangerous task of picking up the survivors being stopped in the water for this task we were sitting ducks for any Uboat but we managed to pick up some eighty odd men and were still hauling men over the side when a lookout spotted what he thought was a periscope and as I have already pointed out to a question from a German 'would the skipper of that Uboat let us carry on picking up survivors?' I think not! so off we went.
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Robert Nicklin . Royal Navy HMS Dorsetshire I volunteered at the age of 17 for the Royal Navy in 1940 and saw action on my first ship which was damaged by bomb and machine guns. It was in action against the Bismarck on HMS Dorsetshire firing 240 rounds of 8" shells. After putting three torpedoes into her and watching her sink we rescued 84 survivors. We bombarded the North African coast and took part in the landings in Madagascar. There was also lots of action in the Mediterranean, including three Malta convoys. With another destroyer we sank 13 enemy ships in an action lasting three hours. On my return to England I was just in time to take part in the Normandy landings on the cruiser HMS Emerald who, with other British warships, bombarded the shore batteries on the French coast. We were hit by a bomb and sustained only slight damage. We returned to Pompey [Portsmouth] for repairs and then went back to the landings, returning to England after things had settled down.
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Robert Nicklin . Royal Navy HMS Woolwich I joined HMS Woolwich when she was stationed in Alexandria on 13th May 1942.
Her main role was as a Destroyer Depot ship and her job was to look after a destroyer's needs, such as some minor repair jobs or supplies, but on top of all that she was the Eastern Med Fleet's signal base. The only time that the Woolwich left her place in Alexandria harbour was on 2nd July 1942 when she, the Resource, the Reliance and the Medway were escorted by a destroyer that I was on and a few more escorts to Port Said. She probably did go into the Indian Ocean from there, but returned to Alex sometime in October 1942, where she remained till 17th December 1943, when we sailed out of Alexandria at 13 knots, she was a very old ship. She sailed for Ceylon and the port of Trincomalee at which we arrived on 10th January 1944. I was drafted off her on 19th March 1944.
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