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Nicholson-W-L-Cpl-417

Page history last edited by Lenore Frost 6 years, 10 months ago

Volunteers of Essendon and Flemington, 1914-1918

 

    Corporal Walter Nicholson is on the left, and Ettie in the centre. The unusual hat badge suggests a

period spent in a militia battalion after he returned from the war in 1916.  Courtesy of David Nicholson.

 

Nicholson W         L Cpl    417    Walter             7 Inf Bn    25    Coach trimmer    Single    C of E       

Address:    Flemington, Wellington St, 159 "Brocka"  

Next of Kin:    Nicholson, W C, 159 Wellington St, Flemington   

Enlisted:    17 Aug 1914       

Embarked:     A20 Hororata 19 Oct 1914

Prior service:  2 years senior cadets, two years Light Horse.

 

Walter Nicholson, Mary Therese Mullins (Mollie his future wife) and his mother Rosa Nicholson, taken outside the Nicholson home "Brocka" at 159 Wellington St, Flemington.  Courtesy of David Nicholson.

 

Ettie is wearing a sweetheart's brooch with mounted AIF insignia.

 

 

Lance-Corporal W. Nicholson, of Flemington has left Malta

for Egypt.

No Title. (1915, December 2). The Essendon Gazette and

Keilor, Bulla and Broadmeadows Reporter (Moonee

Ponds, Vic. : 1914 - 1918), p. 3 Edition: Morning.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74591064

 

 

 

 

 

NICHOLSON--MULLINS.-On the 31st July, at Yarrawonga,

by the Rev. A.. J. Tehan, Sergeant Walter Nicholson, 7th

Battn. A.I.F. youngest son of W. C. and R. Nicholson, Brocka,

159 Wellington street, Flemington, to Mary Tereasa, second

daughter of E. and the late J. J. Mullins, Yarrawonga.

Family Notices. (1916, September 2). Leader

(Melbourne, Vic. : 1862 - 1918), p. 52 Edition: WEEKLY.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article89767888

 

 

An inquiry was conducted at the
Kyneton Drill Hall on Saturday into
charges preferred by the Kyneton
"Observer" against Captain Dettmann,
the district area officer, principally in
connection with the management of
the Easter Cadet camp at, Kyneton. The
inquiry was conducted by Captain
Finey (headquarters), Lieut. Nichol
son, area officer of Abbotsford, and
Lieut. Housden, area officer of Bendigo.
Evidence was taken from 10 a.m. to 6
p.m., when the sitting was adjourned
till 10 o'clock this morning, when the
finding will probably be announced.
About 80 cadets from Castlemaine
journeyed to Kyneton to attend the
inquiry.

ITEMS OF NEWS (1917, April 23).  

Mount Alexander Mail (Vic. : 1854 - 1917), p. 2.

  http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article119656246

 

War Service Commemorated

Flemington Methodist Church Honor Board

Flemington State School

Patriotic Concert 1914

Essendon Gazette Roll of Honour Wounded

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