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Name: NICOLSON, William Hurst (Capt.)

Birth Date: 19.9.1870 Linlithgow, Scotland

Death Date: 21.1.1916 Shaikh, Saad, Mesopotamia, killed in action, buried at Amara

Nationality: British

First Date: 1901

Profession: 1903 O.C. Troops at Muhoroni during the Nandi troubles.

Area: Entebbe

Married: Isabella 'Ella' Anderson

Children: Jean Margaret (Entebbe 4.6.1906)

Book Reference: Moyes, EAHB 1905, North, EA Diary 1903, EAHB 1906, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907, Drumkey, UJ

War Service: 37th Dragoons; Royal Munster Fusiliers/ Indian Staff Corps/ 5 KAR

General Information:

North - arr. Mombasa from Bombay 5/4/1901 with Indian Contingent for 1st Battn. Uganda Rifles, dep. for Uganda 12/4/1901; Capt.; Member of Nandi punitive expedition 28/4/1903; dep. Mombasa on leave 28/11/1903; arr. Mombasa from India 14/10/1904; Entebbe 1905
EAHB 1905 - 4th KAR, Commandant Indian Contingent, Uganda
Uganda Journal - Vol 22, p. 186 - Group photograph of Uganda officials November 1907. - (O.C. Indian Contingent)
Invited to Phelips wedding
Buried in Amara War Cemetery, Iraq
CWCG Maj. William Hurst Nicolson 37th Dogras. Killed in action at Al Hanneh 21st Jan 1916. Age 45. Son of the Rev. William Millar Nicolson of Linlithgow; husband of Ella Nicolson, of 13, Montague St., Edinburgh. XIV. J. 12
 

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