Medals

37. Pte. William Nicholson

 

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.