NICHOLSON, James Albert

  1. Service Details
  2. Personal Details
  3. Unit and Rank Details
  4. Notes
  5. Sources

Service Details

Branch of Service
Army
Conflict
World War I (1914-1918)
Date of Enlistment
01/01/1918
Date of Discharge
27/02/1920
Place of Enlistment
Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Personal Details

Gender
Male
Date of Birth
30/08/1897
Place of Birth
Alswick, Victoria
Address (at enlistment)
Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT
Occupation
Soldier
Next of Kin
Margaret Janet Nicholson (mother), Peel Terrace, Northam, Western Australia

Unit and Rank Details

Final Rank
Lieutenant
Final Unit
1 Division Signal Company AIF

Notes

Nicholson entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon in February 1915 and graduated at the end of 1917 when he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in a Special Draft of RMC graduates which arrived in England in April 1918. He trained as a signal's officer but did not arrive in France until after the Armistice.

Sources

Colonel J.E. Lee, 'Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1946', 1952
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)

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