Nowell Johstone SIEVERS

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SIEVERS, Nowell Johstone

Service Number:	Officer
Enlisted:	4 August 1914, Essex Regiment
Last Rank:	Captain
Last Unit:	Unspecified British Units
Born:	Prestwich, England, 1890
Home Town:	Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Oxford, England
Occupation:	Journalist
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 30 November 1917
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Cambrai Memorial, Louveral Panel 7 and 8.
Memorials:	Killara Golf Club WWI Honour Roll

World War 1 Service

4 Aug 1914:	Enlisted British Forces (All Conflicts), Officer, Essex Regiment
30 Nov 1917:	Involvement British Forces (All Conflicts), Captain, Officer, Unspecified British Units

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Biography contributed by Elizabeth Allen

Nowell was born in Prestwich in England in 1890 as Noel Johnstone SIEVERS

His parents were Edward Johnstone SIEVERS & Lucie Vernon THOMAS who married in All Saints Church in Petersham in Sydney, NSW on 22nd December, 1888

Biography contributed by VWM Australia

Captain Nowell Johstone SIEVERS

Only son of Lucie Vernon and Edward Johnstone SIEVERS of Sydney, NSW

He was born in the UK in December 1890 but the family appear to have emigrated to Australia by 1896 as 3 of his siblings were born in NSW

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