196th Battalion Band. Worlend Errol Nicholson is on the left side, back row. (Laurel Fitzsimonds.)
Worlend Errol Nicholson, foreground, right, stands before a group of Prisoners of War, location unknown. (Laurel Fitzsimonds.)
Worlend Errol Nicholson, circa 1914. (Laurel Fitzsimonds.)
Worlend Errol Nicholson, in London following his enlistment in April 1916. (Laurel Fitzsimonds.)

Worlend Nicholson

Nicholson signed up in Edmonton at the age of 20.

Worlend Errol Nicholson, in London following his enlistment in April 1916. Nicholson signed up in Edmonton at the age of 20. At the time, he was working as a teacher in Bentley, Alberta. He served in France and returned in Canada in 1919. Following the war, he settled in Beiseker, Alberta, and in 1923 married his sweetheart, Marie.

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