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Hugh Iltid Nicholl was originally a Bedfordshire Regiment officer. His appointment as a Second Lieutenant in 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment (from Lieutenant 4th Militia Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment, which he had joined in 1880 aged 18), effective 12th March 1892, is published in The London Gazette of 11th March 1892. As a Captain, Hugh Iltid Nicholl was a member of the Aero Club of the United Kingdom. It was through this association that he met his wife, a founder member of the Aero Club since 1901, then Miss Vera Butler. Miss Butler was apparently the first lady in France to be granted a certificate to drive a motor car. She took part in a 1,000 mile automobile trials rally, and was an enthusiastic hot-air balloonist. (In fact the Aero Club of the UK was formed in a balloon basket - the 3 original members being Mr C S Rolls, Mr F Hedges Butler, and his daughter Miss Vera Butler). The Nicholl family home was in Portland Place, London. Iltid Nicholl and Vera Butler married at Steyning, Sussex, in 1904. A son, David Iltid Nicholl was born in 1906 at Hartley Wintney in Hampshire, (his mother enrolled him as a Member of The Royal Aero Club in 1909, aged 3). During the Boer War Iltid Nicholl was the Officer Commanding the 6th Mounted Infantry Company of the Bedfordshire Regiment. He afterwards wrote up his South Africa Journal which was published in 1900.

Lt Col H I Nicholl at age 45, served on the Staff of 49th (West Riding) Division as a GSO1 from its arrival in France in April 1915 as one of the first entirely Territorial Army formations to engage on the Western Front. 49th Division fought at Aubers Ridge in May 1915 and in December 1915 it was subjected to the first Phosgene gas attack. It was for his tireless efforts during this period that he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. He later served as DAA&QMG in 47th (1/2nd London) Division as they prepared for their attack on the Somme in July 1916. Unsurprisingly by the end of June 1916 he had probably given of his best and he was appointed to the UK based 67th Division, the Headquarters of which was in Canterbury in 1917 and Colchester in 1918, until March 1918. Remarkably, despite the rigours of his extensive military service in India, South Africa, France and Flanders, Hugh Iltid Nicholl lived to the age of 83, dying in Marylebone in 1953.

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Details on www.cwgc.org :- Captain 10th Btn Canadian Infantry dies 22/4/1915 age 35 Comem on Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 24-28-30 Son of Mrs and the Late Henry Wallace of Canada, husband of Winifred Laura Jane Wallace of 87 Heene Road, Worthing, Sussex, England. In the Boer War 1899-1902 he served as Pte 3198 in the 14 Company (Northumberland) 5 Battalion Imperial Yeomanry and was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal with clasps Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 In the 1881 Census he is recorded as living at Trench Hall, Lamesley, Chester-le-Street with his parents Henry & Jessie Wallace and 3 sisters. His father was Land Agent to Lord Ravensworth.

The Canadian Great War Project website has some basic service details for Captain Wallace: www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/searches/soldierDetail.as... Captain Wallace appears in the 1891 and 1891 censuses at Lamesley with his parents Henry Atholl Wallace and Jessie Ellis. He had 3 older sisters and by 1891 a further 3 siblings. He married Winifred Laura Jane Archer circa 1902 in Gateshead, Durham and by 1906 they were living in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada where they had been since 1902 according to the census record, so presumably straight after marrying. No children are shown on the 1906 census and Winifred's age is given as 22 (she was born in 1881 in Gateshead), with Henry's shown as 26.

He and Winifred had two children, Harold and Dorothy.

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