Current Information:

Attached from 2nd Coldstream Guards

Born & Enlisted-Birmingham

Bethune Town Cemetery, France

The Royal Garrison Artillery operated larger and less mobile guns than the Field Artillery. The most common weapon of the Heavy Batteries of the RGA was the 60 pounder (5 inch) guns which were mainly used to destroy the opposition’s artillery as well as targeting strong-points, dumps, stores, roads and railways behind enemy lines. The first heavy batteries to reach the Western Front were attached to infantry divisions but by the middle of 1915 they were being transferred to Heavy Brigades that operated under the orders of individual Army Corps. 

Henry Nicholls died from wounds on 31st January, 1915, but as yet there is no information as to where and on what date he was wounded.