ALFRED SIDNEY NICHOLLS
Born: 4th June 1895, at 24, Victoria Street, Ipswich.
Baptised on the 21st June 1895, at All Saints’ Church, Ipswich – family home at 24, Victoria Street, Ipswich.
Died: 22nd November 1918; age 23; died of Pneumonia at No. 15 Combined Clearing Station, Beirut, Syria.
Residence: 5, Riverside Road, Ipswich.
Occupation: with the Ipswich Corporation.
Rank: Driver; Service Number: 855418
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery, 270th Brigade.
Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.
Grave Reference:
Lebanese Republic.
Relatives Notified & Address: The only son of Sidney Ivan & Edith Ellen Nicholls, of 5, Riverside Road, Ipswich.
CENSUS
1901 5, Riverside Road, Ipswich.
Alfred was 5 years old and living with his parents, sisters & maternal grandfather.
Sidney Ivan Nicholls, 35, a general labourer, born Rushmere St. Andrew’s, Suffolk.
Edith Ellen Nicholls (nee Hayward), 30, born Washbrook, Suffolk.
Rose Edith Nicholls, 10, born Ipswich.
Ellen Ada Nicholls, 9, born Ipswich.
Kate Victoria Nicholls, 3, born Ipswich.
Alfred Hayward, 66, widower, a Pig Butcher – Slaughter, born Finningham, Suffolk.
1911 5, Riverside Road, Ipswich.
Alfred was 15 years old, an Errand Boy. He was living with his parents, sisters & maternal grandfather.
Sidney, 45, a Corporation Carter.
Edith, 40.
Rose, 20.
Daisy May Nicholls, 6, born Ipswich.
Alfred’s mother, Edith Ellen Nicholls, died on the 17th November 1918, at 5, Riverside Road, Ipswich.
Soldiers’ Effects to Sidney Ivan Nicholls – father.
Alfred is also remembered on the war memorial under Public Health at the Town Hall, Ipswich, Springfield School, Ipswich and Burlington Baptist Church, London Road, Ipswich.
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