James Nicholson

Forenames

James AWMM

Surname

Nicholson AWMM

Service number

WWI 18023 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

7 Aug 1894 Public Source

Date of birth

7th August 1894

Public - chris - Other relative - 25 January 2017 - military file

Next of kin

Mrs L. Nicholson (mother), 18 Enfield Street, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 18023 AWMM

Enlistment

• WW1 Unknown AWMM Salesman/Civilian AWMM
• 27th June 1916
  Public - chris - Other relative - 2 April 2018 - Military file

Age on enlistment

21

Public - chris - Other relative - 2 April 2018 - Military file

Occupation before enlistment

Hardware assistant

Public - chris - Other relative - 25 January 2017 - military file

Embarkation details

WW1 02 Jan 1917-27 Mar 1917 AWMM
HMNZT 73 AWMM Vessel was Opawa AWMM Gunner/Military AWMM 20th Reinforcements, New Zealand Field Artillery AWMM New Zealand Expeditionary Force AWMM

Medical notes

10 Jan 1918 AWMM Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Gunner/Military AWMM
New Zealand Field Artillery AWMM

James Nicholson was the son of the late William and Lucy Nicholson, of Auckland, New Zealand.

Next of Kin: Mrs L. Nicholson, Belgium St, Auck. (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

10 Jan 1918 AWMM
Age  23 AWMM

Date of death

10th January 1918

Public - chris - Other relative - 30 March 2018 - Military file

Age at death

23

Public - chris - Other relative - 30 March 2018 - Military file

Place of death

About the slopes forward from Hooge Crater, outside Ypres, West Flanders, Belgium

Public - chris - Other relative - 30 March 2018 - New Zealand Artillery in the Field, 1914-18

Cause of death

• Killed in Action AWMM
• Artillary fire
  Public - chris - Other relative - 30 March 2018 - Military file

Death notes

• Hostile shelling was responsible for a number of casualties at gun positions, one unlucky shot on the night of the 9th January penetrating a dug-out in the 3rd Battery and killing all five occupants
  Public - chris - Other relative - 30 March 2018 - New Zealand Artillery in the Field, 1914-18
• One unlucky shot on the night of the 9th January penetrating a dug-out in the 3rd Battery and killing all five occupants
  Public - chris - Other relative - 30 March 2018 - New Zealand Artillery in the Field, 1914-18
• Belgium
  Public - chris - Other relative - 25 January 2017 - military personal file

Cemetery

Divisional Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM M. 6. AWMM

Cemetery name

Divisional Cemetary, Ypres

Public - chris - Other relative - 30 March 2018 - Military file

Grave reference

M.6.

Public - chris - Other relative - 30 March 2018 - Military file

Memorial name

Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21380518
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/93345/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/93345
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference
• http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1NZAr-t1-body-d2-d6.html#n267
  Public - chris - Other relative - 30 March 2018 - Victoria University of Wellington Library

References

• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  49: 18
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 1: Includes portrait
• NZWGT: Information supplied by the New Zealand War Graves Trust as part of the New Zealand War Graves project. This project was established in 2006 to record in text and photographs the 31,758 New Zealanders who have been identifed as serving with New Zealand or Allied forces, and who died in conflicts from the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) up to the present day and in peacekeeping operations.
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Byrne, J.R. (1922). New Zealand Artillery in the Field, 1914 - 18. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.