Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

Although many perished in times of national conflict and in the service of their country, many more survived including those interned as Prisoners of War. Stories of those who did survive are included as part of this site, especially those with high gallantry awards, those included against an external rolls of honour and those who had a distinguished career in wartime and military leaderhip.

Detail :

4745, 5th Lancers attached as Captain, New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

MANAWATU STANDARD, VOLUME XLI, ISSUE 10112, 2 JULY 1915
Word has been received in Palmerston North that Staff Sergeant-Major Charles Legge NICHOLLS, of the 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, has been granted a lieutenant's commission in the Imperial Army. Sergeant-Major Nicholls was one of the N.C.O.'s on loan to the New Zealand Defence Department by the British Army, and was stationed in Palmerston North for over three years as Regimental Sergeant-Major of the 6th Mounted Rifles. He left New Zealand with the Wellington Mounted Rifles of the Main Expeditionary Force. Mrs Nicholls has resided in Palmerston North since her husband's departure.

Waikumete Cemetery. His ashes were scattered in the "Soldier's Area."

Masonic :

In the Ledgers of the United Grand Lodge of England it shows war service from 1918 and then "Missing on Active Service"

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley