NICHOLS, Douglas Roy
| Service Number: | 26180 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 February 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Gunner |
| Last Unit: | 10th Field Artillery Brigade |
| Born: | Latrobe, Tasmania, Australia, 11 February 1891 |
| Home Town: | Ulverstone, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Schoolmaster |
| Died: | Influenza Pneumonia, Ivanhoe, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 October 1931, aged 40 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 17 Feb 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Gunner, 26180, 24th Field Artillery (Howitzer) Brigade | |
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| 1 Aug 1916: | Involvement Gunner, 26180, 24th Field Artillery (Howitzer) Brigade, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '4' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Orsova embarkation_ship_number: A67 public_note: '' | |
| 1 Aug 1916: | Embarked Gunner, 26180, 24th Field Artillery (Howitzer) Brigade, HMAT Orsova, Melbourne | |
| 20 Jul 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Gunner, 10th Field Artillery Brigade | |
| 8 Sep 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Gunner, 26180, 10th Field Artillery Brigade |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Helen Emmett, Tasmania in the Great War.
Gnr Douglas Roy NICHOLS. #26180.
b. 11/2/1891 at Latrobe the son of Hubert A Nichols and Emma (nee Goold). He was a school teacher when he joined up on 17/2/1916 with the Field Artillery. He was later a Gunner with the 24th Howitzer. He returned to Australia where he was a master and teacher of science and drawing at Ivanhoe Grammar School, Vic. He died on 13/10/1931 at Ivanhoe and donated his extensive collection of ships photos and books to the Mitchell Library (68 albums of approx 6600 images).
Frank Hurley's iconic photo of Chateau Woods in 1917 appears at the Australian War Memorial. Two of the men were brothers Bert and Roy Nichols of Ulverstone. The magazine article featuring Bert is from April 1985 (Melbourne Winners Weekly). Bert told a family member that Hurley made the men walk back and forth several times until he was happy with the photo composition - all the men wanted to do was sit down and rest.
Bert and Roy were cousins to my Grandfather.
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