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Personal info

Full name
NICHOLSON, Howard John
Date of birth
23 December 1913
Age
31
Place of birth
Methuen, Essex County, Massachusetts
Hometown
Essex County, Massachusetts

Military service

Service number
31426991
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
53rd Armored Infantry Battalion,
4th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
27 December 1944
Place of death
Bastogne, Belgium

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Luxembourg
Plot Row Grave
B 8 58

Immediate family

Members
Alfred Nicholson (father)
Elizabeth (Torkington) Nicholson (mother)
Frank Nicholson (brother)
Vera Nicholson (sister)
Alfred Nicholson (brother)
Nora A. (Rose) Nicholson (wife)

More information

Pfc Howard J. Nicholson graduated from Searles High School and was circulation manager at Lawrence Publications Incorporated.

He enlisted in Boston, Massachusetts on 30 November 1940.

Source of information: André Koch, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - Headstone and Interment Records, AAR 53rd AIB July 44 thru May 1945

Photo source: www.findagrave.com, - Luxembourg American Cemetery