Name
Ernest Nicholes
12 June 1886
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/10/1917
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
A/203426
King's Royal Rifle Corps
16th Bn
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOUVERVAL MILITARY CEMETERY, DOIGNIES
B.6
France
Headstone Inscription
THY WILL BE DONE
UK & Other Memorials
St Peter & St Paul Church Roll of Honour, Little Gaddesden, Family Grave, Little Gaddesden churchyard, Not on the Little Gaddesden Church or Village Memorial. Roll of Honour to King's Royal Rifle Corps, Winchester Cathedral, Ivinghoe War Memorial
Pre War
Ernest Nicholes was born on 12 June 1886 at Wards Hurst, Ivinghoe, Bucks, the son of Charles and Annie Nicholes and one of 4 children. He was baptised at St Peter & St Paul's Church, Little Gaddesden on 22 August 1886. On the 1891 Census, the family were living at Wards Hurst Farm, Ivinghoe, where his father was the Farmer.
He attended Little Gaddesden School and left at age 14 in January 1901 and on the 1901 Census he was living at 28 Market Square, Aylesbury, as a Draper's Apprentice.
By the 1911 Census, he had moved to London and was living in employee accommodation in Gower Street, St Pancras and working as a Draper's Assistant. for Shoolbred & Co.
Meanwhile, his family remained at Wards Hurst Farm.
Wartime Service
He enlisted into the King's Royal Rifle Corps in London and was attached to the 1/16th Battalion, London Regiment (the Queen's Westminster Rifles) at the time of his death.
He was killed in action on 24 October 1917 and is buried in Louveral Military Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His father, Mr C H Nicholes, Wards Hurst, Kingshall, Berkhampstead, ordered his headstone inscription: “THY WILL BE DONE”. His father received a war gratuity of £3 10s and pay owing of £12 2s 11d. N.B. His younger brother William who served in the Hertfordshire Yeomanry survived the war and is also named on the Little Gaddesden Roll of Honour.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, www.dacorumheritage.org.uk, hemelatwar.org.,littlegaddesdenchurch.org.
