Name | William Nicholson |
Service number | TS 4176 and 195138 |
Rank – including any promotions, with dates | Strapper – 03/11/1914 Driver – 15/03/1917 |
Regiment | Remount No 2 Depot ASC 10th Reserve Brigade RHA “R” Battalion RHA Indian Establishment |
Battalion | |
Unit | |
Postings | Home 03/11/1914 – 99/11/1914 BGF France 10/11/1914 – 12/01/1917 Home 13/01/1917 |
Wounds | |
Silver War Badge? (WWI) | |
PoW Info. Etc. | |
Date of Discharge | |
Other Information |
Birthplace | Blythe |
Date of birth | 23/03/1881 |
Enlisted | 03/11/1914 |
Lived | 34 North Bondgate, Bishop Auckland |
Parents. 1901 census | Joshua (1858-1912) and Elizabeth Nicholson (1859-1926), Superintendent at Sewing Machine Company William listed as Carpenter/Joiner journeyman |
+ address | 205 Hall Terrace, Bishop Auckland |
Wife | Jennie (Morland) Nicholson ( 1879-1940) married 18/04/1902 at Register Office, Bishop Auckland |
+ address | 34 North Bondgate, Bishop Auckland |
Children | Dorothy born 1902 – 1925; William born 1911- 1969 |
Occupation | 1938 – listed as unemployed labourer, Jenny – unpaid domestic duties son apprentice mechanic – notes partially incapacitated, address 13 Brewer Street, Bishop Auckland – also living with them, Jennie’s sister Lily and John Carrick grocers clerk |
Medals – held in collection Citations | 1914/15 Star British War Medal Victory Medal |
Medals – others awarded but not held in collection | |
Citations/Notes | Attestation Notes: 5”5” tall, weighed 134 lbs; 37.5” chest Fresh Complexion, Blue/grey eyes and light brown hair |
How died – not known, at home, of wounds, killed in action | |
Date of death | Possibly 1954 |
Age | 73 |
Memorial | |
Cemetery – plot, row and grave |
The ASC Remounts Service was responsible for the provisioning of horses and mules to all other army units. It was not a large part of the ASC, despite the huge numbers of animals produced, amounting in 1914 to only four Remount Squadrons that ran four Remount Depots (Woolwich, Dublin, Melton Mowbray and Arborfield).
A Remount Squadron consisted of approximately 200 soldiers, who obtained and trained 500 horses. They were generally older, experienced soldiers.
X Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery was a brigade[a] of the Royal Horse Artillery which existed in the early part of the 20th century. It served as a training formation (as X (Reserve) Brigade, RHA) in the First World War before being dissolved at the end of the war.
10th Reserve Brigade, RHA was at Woolwich. Because reserve brigades were usually training brigades and brigades to which soldiers and officers who had recovered from wounds were assigned I would assume that the brigade was located at Woolwich throughout the war.
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