Private Charles G Nicholls

Charles George Nicholls was born and lived in Bath, he enlisted in the Somerset Light Infantry and volunteered for airborne forces.

Private Nicholls successfully completed glider training and was posted to 2nd (Airborne) Battalion, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, and took part in Operation Varsity (Rhine Crossing).

Pte Nicholls was killed in action on 24 March 1945, aged 22, and was given a field burial at Hamminkeln, Germany and was re-interred to Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Germany, on 24 March 1947.

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