Edward Nicholson - In Memorial


1889 - 1915

1.  Early Days
2.  West Yorkshire Regiment
3.  Lancers of the Line
4.  British Expeditionary Forces
5.  1914-1915 Home and Abroad
6.  Missing Presumed Dead
7.  In Memorial

In Memorial

 

Private Edward Nicholson
9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers
who died aged 29 on Thursday, 13th May 1915.

Private NICHOLSON was the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Nicholson, of Canada. 

Remembered with honour

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL,
Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

In the perpetual care of
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

9th Lancers (Queen's Royal).
Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line (incl. Yeomanry and Imperial Camel Corps)
Killed in action, France & Flanders, 13/05/15
Born: Knaresborough, Yorks, Enlisted: York, Residence: Harrogate

 


The Soldier 

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware.
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home. 

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven. 

Rupert Brook

 

 

Edward's death is commemorated in various locations. As he was born in Knaresborough, he is listed on the Knaresborough War Memorial. As a resident of Harrogate, he is also acknowledged on the Harrogate Cenotaph, and as he fell in France, his name is engraved on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

The cenotaph War Memorial in Harrogate c1930 shortly after it was erected. Click on the dark panel on the front of the monument to view Edward's inscription

Ypres 

Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. 

The following entries appeared in the local Harrogate newspaper

NICHOLSON - In loving memory of our dear son, Pte Edward Nicholson (9th Lancers), killed in action May 13th, 1915, aged 25.

"A day of rememberance sad to recall".

From Father and Mother

NICHOLSON - In loving memory of my dear brother, Pte. Edward Nicholson (9th Lancers), killed in action May 13th, 1915, aged 25.

"Often I think of you, dear brother,
And my heart is filled with pain;
All this earth would be a heaven
Could I but hear your voice again"

From his sister Rose and brother Sam

Between the 22nd April and 31st May 1915, the British suffered 59,275 casualties from the fighting at the Second Battle of Ypres and Hill 60 (just south of Ypres).   

 

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