BORN HULL BRIDGE, TICKTON, 1891. SON OF LEVI AND JANE ANN NICHOLSON, OF SWINEMOOR, GATE HOUSE, BEVERLEY (CWGC ADDRESS). A LABOURER. AND SON OF A LABOURER. HE ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY. HE ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 18/04/1915. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 3088, WITH THE 5TH YORKSHIRE HUSSARS. KILLED IN THE TRENCHES, ON 03/07/1915, AGED 24. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, LEVI. HE LEFT BROTHER, LEVI, JOSEPH, AND FRED, AND SISTER, FLORENCE.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE BEVERLEY WAR MEMORIAL, MEMORIAL GARDENS. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 10/07/1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
BURIED AT R.E. FARM CEMETERY, BELGIUM. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN”.
First name:
DANIEL
Military Number:
3088
Rank:
Private
Date Died
03/07/1915
Place died:
R.E. Farm Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
24
SWINEMOOR, GATE HOUSE, BEVERLEY, EAST RIDING, YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Place Buried
