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Frank Nicholson was born in Beverley the 31 May 1897, the second of two sons born to Benjamin and Mary Elizabeth Nicholson (nee Thompson). Frank's older brother Harry born 1893, also served in the army along with his father Benjamin in the Army Supply Corps Remounts Service in France. The family lived above the premises at Butcher Row. Frank attended Beverley Grammar School and then gained an apprenticeship at the Grovehill shipyard, Beverley in the fitting shops.
Frank enlisted in the army in 1915, he joined the Lincolnshire Regiment and served in the 8th Battalion. He undertook training at Whitley, Surrey and arrived in France on 10 Sep 1915. The 8th took part in a British assault on German lines at Loos in late Sep 1915. On either the 25th or the 26th, according to which source is used, Frank was wounded in both legs and taken prisoner. He was treated at Wesal Hospital and then spent the rest of the war in captivity in various camps in Germany and in occupied Poland, in what had been Russian territory before the war. He returned to Beverley on 3 Dec 1918. He was awarded the 1914-15 Star and the War and Victory Medals.
Frank lived with his family at 43 Wilbert Lane and completed his apprenticeship as an engineer. On 5 Jan 1922, he married Nora Appleton, born in Beverley the 13 Aug 1890. In 1939 they were living in Robert Wood Avenue and Frank was a fitter in an Ordnance Admiralty Depot. They had four children. Frank died in 1959, aged 61. Nora died in 1980 aged 90.
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