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Description: | Album of photographs and memorabilia relating to the service of H W L Nichols during the First World War and Second World War. Initially H W L Nichols served as a medical student in France at the Hopital Militaire Anglaise (English Military Hospital) in Limoges (December 1914 to June 1915) and subsequently as an officer with the Royal Artillery on the Western Front until 1918. During the Second World War he served as an officer with the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC). The earliest photograph is of Charterhouse Officer Training Corps (OTC) camp in 1911 (Photograph presumably containing HWL Nichols). The collection contains photographs, documents, and newspaper cuttings from the First and Second World Wars and photographs of the 28th (Essex) Regiment (Territorial Army) at camp 1936 - 1937. The collection also includes: Postcards from the owner's leave periods in Italy in 1944, newspaper front pages from "The Union Jack" (British forces newspaper) for VE Day (May 8th 1945) and Maj Nichols' with telegrams for mention in dispatches. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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