Royal Indian Army Service Corps, 1st Battalion
Born: 6th February 1918.
Story
Harry was the son of Herbert Nicholson (1878-1955, pictured below), and Mary Ellen Wilson (1880-1920), who passed away just after Harry’s 2nd birthday. Harry’s sister Sybil passed away four years later in 1924, aged 17. Herbert re-married Charlotte Prince in Allerton Bywater on 6th June 1927, and they brought up Harry and his older brother Joseph (1911-1964) at 21 Brigshaw Lane.
Before the War, Harry attended the Bowers Allerton Mission Hall alongside his friend Kenneth Silkstone, but then became a Railway Clerk at Cutsyke Station. At the outbreak of War, Harry joined the East Yorkshire Regiment, and was quickly promoted to Sergeant, then Company Sergeant Major in the 1st Battalion of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps (pictured below). Whilst based in India, he met up with Private Kenneth Silkstone, and when they wrote back home, they both mentioned how they had spent a few happy days together, discussing their school days, their work for the Mission, and events up to the outbreak of war. They hadn’t seen each other for nearly four years.
On 9th February 1945, it was reported that Harry had been recommended for Commission, which he had duly obtained, to become a Second Lieutenant. After the War, Harry returned home, and passed away in 1994.
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