Winter Nicholson
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Winter was born in 1882 the son of George Thomas and Mary A. Nicholson, of Conisborough, Rotherham. His father was a director of the firm of Whitworth and Co Ltd, Brewers of Wath-upon-Dearne. He had four siblings. Winter was the husband of Amy Wilde (formerly Nicholson) (née Lazenby), of The White House, Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk. In 1911 they lived at 4, Regent Terrace, Doncaster with their baby son Peter and two servants. At the outbreak of the war he was living at Station Road, Bawtry and by this time had a further son and a daughter.
On 9th June 1915 he joined a battalion of the Royal Engineers which was being raised in the Doncaster area. He subsequently received a commission and received training at Doncaster, Rushmore Camp, Bordon and Pirbright. He went to France in June 1916. In his battalion were many men from Doncaster and Bawtry districts. He was killed by shellfire at Clery-Sur-Somme on 16th March 1917. He is buried at Hem Farm Military Cemetery Hem-Monacu He had a brother who spent the whole period of the war in captivity at Ruhleben. Winter's son Major Peter Nicholson was killed in action in 1942 in Libya serving with the Royal Artillery.
Retfordian, In Memoriam:'Winter Nicholson, Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, died of wounds received in action March 16th. He married Miss Amy Lazenby, sister of George Lazenby, O.R. in 1910, and leaves two sons and a daughter. He enlisted as a sapper in the R.E. on June 9th and was gazetted to another company of the Engineers exactly two months later. He had been out in France since June 1916. His Colonel writes of him, " Nothing ever upset him, from a rat in his dugout to a salvo of 6-inch shells." This is what every O.R who knew him would expect.'
