Private Albert Oliver Nicholls
Army Number: 241200
Battalion: 2/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Born and lived at Brampton, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Son of Edmund and Elizabeth Nicholls, of Mill Farm, Chesterfield Road, Bolsover, Derbyshire. He enlisted at Chesterfield and was killed in action, 21st March 1918, whilst holding the line near Noreuil, France on the opening day of the German Spring Offensive or (Kaiserschlact)
Commemorated: Arras Memorial, France. Bay 7.
Private Albert Oliver Nicholls is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Thomas the Apostles Church War Memorial, Brampton, Derbyshire.
His brother, Private Arthur Vernon Nicholls, 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.