NAME Louis Charles Nichols
BORN Abt. 1876
DIED ?
MILITARY SERIAL NO. 506
UNIT 3rd Pioneer Battalion
ENLISTED Lithgow  5 January 1916
DISCHARGED Sydney 14 April 1919

Louis Nichols originally took up a Homestead Farm consisting of 831 acres in the Land District of Forbes.  He obtained the farm by ballot, ‘the block was watered by a never failing spring’.[1]  Initially Nichols was seen as a satisfactory case, but had sold the property by May 1924.[2]

Footnotes

[1] SRNSW: Lands Department; NRS 8058, Returned Soldiers loan files; [12/6944 No. 3571]  RSS Branch Office Memorandum  14 March 1920??

[2] Ibid, CP Inspector’s report 7 May 1924.

Sources used to compile this entry:

State Records NSW:  Lands Department; NRS 8058, Returned Soldiers loan files; [12/6944 No. 3571] Louis Charles Nichols.

National Archives of Australia: B2455, First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, (Louis Charles Nichols) online:  http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=7993544