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Serjeant ALEXANDER WILLIAM NICHOLLS

Service Number: 5112024
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

1st Bn. The Herefordshire Regiment

Date of Death

Died 17 October 1944

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MIERLO WAR CEMETERY

II. A. 1.

Netherlands

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment formerly of the 1/7th Bn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Alexander Nicholls and Agnes Nicholls, of Birmingham; husband of Phyllis Evelyn Mary Nicholls, of Aston, Birmingham.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS
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Buried or commemorated at

MIERLO WAR CEMETERY
Noord-Brabant Netherlands
Number of casualties: 666
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