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Remembering World War I
Yarmouth Connections
Aubrey Eugene Nickerson
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Aubrey Eugene Nickerson
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Private
1st Depot Battalion NS; 85th Battalion
June 12, 1889
Yarmouth NS
March 20, 1918
Halifax
Yarmouth NS
28
5 feet, 4 inches
dark
dark brown
brown
Single
Methodist
Machinist
Prince W. Nickerson (Father) Yarmouth NS
November 21, 1925 (aged 36)
Mountain Cemetery, Yarmouth NS
Aubrey Nickerson was the son of Prince William Nicerson (1858-1921) and Emma (Harris) Nickerson
(1856-1925) of Yarmouth.
Private Nickerson arrived in England on the SS Metagama on April 19, 1918 and was assigned to the
17th Reserve Battalion. At Bramshott Camp in England he was transferred to the 85th Battalion in France
on September 11, 1918 and joined the unit in the field on September 29, 1918
On April 29, 1919 he returned to England and proceeded to Canada on May 31, 191 and was
discharged at Halifax on June 15, 1919.
In the years following the war, Aubrey Nickerson was a Jeweller in Yarmouth.