Private Benjamin Maitland Nicholson


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Reference WMO/274177

Address:

Kirkbean Church

Kirkbean

DG2 8DW

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Addition to Gravestone
Materials:
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Addition to family gravestone. Ben was educated at Ayr and enlisted in May 1916. He was taken prisoner in March 1918 and died of dysentery in the Kriegslazerette at Asfeld, Sedan, France. Born 1894 at Dalbeattie. Son of Benjamin Moody Nicholson (Factor at the Cavens Estate, Kirkbean) and of his second wife Elizabeth (Hyslop) Nicholson. Husband of Jean Ivyoll Fairbairn (Carswell) Nicholson of Ayr who he married in 1917 at Ayr. Died on Service on 14 July 1918 and buried in Sedan (St. Charles) Communal Cemetery, Ardennes, France. Named on the Ayr War Memorial and on the Ayr Auld Kirk Memorial.
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ALSO/BENJMAIN MAITLAND [NICHOLSON] 7TH B.W./PTE WAS KILLED IN ACTION...

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