Notes: | Pictured in First World War army uniform with Honourable Artillery Company cap badge identifiable.
Charles Nichols died at home in Sheffield on 9th November 1917, aged 28, following health complications suffered whilst serving in the First World War as a Second Lieutenant with the Tank Corps. He had formerly served with the Heavy Machine Gun Corps and prior to that with the Honourable Artillery Company. He was buried at Christ Church, Fulwood.
Prior to the war, Charles Nichols, eldest son of John William Nichols and Eliza Tusting Nichols, worked for the family firm Nichols and Co., wholesale grocers and tea, coffee and fruit merchants, 231 Gibraltar Street, Sheffield, where he was a buyer for the business, and was in charge of the sale room.
Original photograph at Sheffield City Archives: X1020/1/6. |