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Killed in Action
560 Field Company
Royal Engineers
History
Compiled by Ron Taylor
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Sapper
Nicol, William
United Kingdom
Royal Engineers
560 Field Company
18th Division
Died
Date:-
1944/09/12
Age:-
30
Information:-
Hell Ship:- Kachidoki Maru - Sailed 1944/09/04 from Singapore. Sunk by US submarine Pampanito, North East of Hainan Island off China.
Memorial
Column 41.
SINGAPORE MEMORIAL
Singapore
Loved Ones
Son of Seaman John Nicol, R.N.R., H.M.S. Invincible (killed in action at the Battle of Jutland, 31st May, 1916), and of Margaret Nicol, of Wick, Caithness; husband of Annie S. Nicol, of Wick.
Notes
Overland to Thailand 1943/03/23 with 'D' Force, train 9. Commander Lt-Col. G.G. Carpenter, 1st Cambridgeshire Reg. with Lt-Col. McEachern, AIF.