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Daniel Nicholson of Swinemoor Gatehouse, Beverley, was born in 1891 at Hull Bridge, Tickton. He was the second son, and the third of the fourteen children born to Levi Nicholson an oil mill pressman, and his wife Jane Ann (nee Hall).
Daniel enlisted in Beverley in 'C' Company, (the Beverley Terriers), 1st/5th Battalion, Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment, The Green Howards. 1st/5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment was a Territorial Battalion in the 150th Brigade of the 50th (Northumbrian) Division. At the beginning of the war the Division and Battalion were stationed in the north-east of England on home defence duties. The Battalion left Newcastle for France on 17 Apr 1915 arriving at Boulogne on 18 Apr 1915.
On 25 Jun the Battalion moved to the village of Dranoutre to the south-west of Ypres where the men were billeted in local farms. From here the Battalion relieved the 5th Durham Light Infantry in the nearby trenches on 2 Jul. Daniel Nicholson was killed on 3 Jul 1915. He is buried in R.E. Farm Cemetery, Wulverghem, near Wytschaete.
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