NICHOLAS, John Harry

Rank: 
Trooper
Unit / Base: 
52ME Commando
'Layforce'
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Armoured Corps Yorkshire Hussars
Service: 
Army
Number: 
318786
Died : 
Tuesday, October 7, 1941
Died on active service
Age: 
22
Cemetery/Memorial: 
Trooper John Harry Nicholas joined the Commando on 1 November 1940. He died of malaria during an escape from a prisoner of war camp in Greece. Son of Frank and Edith Maud Nicholas, of Burnley, Lancashire.
He is mentioned in the Military Medal recommendation for Cpl. John Coutts, also of 52ME Commando. They had both escaped along with a third man, Cpl. Ward, from a Prisoner of War Camp at Salonika, Greece. Cpl. Coutts [more....] had been captured at Sphakia on 1st June 1941. After the escape they made their way down to the Agion Oros penninsular. Trooper Nicholas became ill with malaria and through weakness and lack of medical attention died on 7th October 1941 *.
 
Sources
CWGC.
* National Archives file WO373/61/945.
Tank Museum archives re Cdo service
Westminster Abbey Commando Roll of Honour file ref. National Archives DEFE/2/843.
 
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