5933561, Private, Thomas George NICHOLLS
Aged 21


1st Battalion, Cambridgeshire Regiment
Killed in Action on Saturday 14th February 1942

Born in Q1-1921 [Newmarket 3b:827], son of James and Gertrude May NICHOLLS (née BLUETT) of 26 Stamford Street, Newmarket. He worked for London & North Eastern Railways.

In the 1939 register his parents, James [14-1-1885] baker's first hand, and mother Gertrude M [1-5-1884] were at 26 Stamford Street,Newmarket,with a boarder, Alfred DALTON, a racing apprentice. There are no closed records.



He died in action on Braddell Road, Singapore, together with several Newmarket men, on the day before the surrender of Singapore to the Japanese

Buried at Sime Road camp he was moved to Kranji War Cemetery on 14th April 1945



Family grave Newmarket NG:K678





photo from asiawargraves.com


© Commonwealth War Graves Commission


Thomas is buried in Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore Ref- 7.B.19
also commemorated on the Exning Road plaque, now kept in the Exning Road Working Mens Club
also on his parents headstone at Newmarket cemetery NG:K678


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