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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