Herbert Alfred NICHOLLS

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NICHOLLS, Herbert Alfred

Service Number:	W62328
Enlisted:	22 March 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	12th (WA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
Born:	Southern Cross, Western Australia, 16 April 1915
Home Town:	Roleystone, Armadale, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Orchardist
Died:	Perth, Western Australia, 9 September 1997, aged 82 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
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World War 2 Service

22 Mar 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, W62328

World War 1 Service

6 Aug 1945:	Transferred Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, 12th (WA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)

World War 2 Service

15 Oct 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, W62328, 12th (WA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Herbert was the youngest of three children of Leslie Herbert Nicholls (b1874 in Adelaide, South Australia) and Muriel Agnes Rosselloty (b1885 in Busselton, WA). Leslie (a School Teacher) and Muriel married in Busselton in 1903. By 1915 the family was in Southern Cross and by 1925 had moved to Perth WA, and then by 1936 to Karragullen - Leslie was a School Teacher. Muriel died in 1933 and Leslie in 1949.

Herbert was working as an Orchardist in Karragullen, WA in 1938 when he married Ethel Mavis Carthew (b1918 in Northam, WA). Herbert and Ethel settled in Karragullen where Herbert was an Orchardist. In March 1942 he enlisted in the ACMF (Private; Service No:W62328) and served with 2nd (Fremantle) Battalion VDC and 12th (Jarrah) Battalion VDC. He was Discharged in 1946.

In the 1960s Herbert and Ethel moved to Gosnells in Cannington WA where Herbert worked as a Fruit Fly Inspector. Herbert died in 1997 and Ethel in 2015.

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