Notes
The Roll lists his address as Stanground, with an implied year of death of 1914 (at Mons). His legal name was James Walter Nichols, but the spelling of his surname varied in different records.
(CWGC records that Private James Walter Nicholls, regimental number 8638, died between 22/10/1914 and 6/11/1914 serving in the 2nd Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Addenda Panel 58 of Ypres Menin Gate Memorial in Belgium. Soldiers Died in the Great War records that James Walter Nicholls was a native of Whittlesey who was living in Peterborough when he enlisted in Bury St Edmunds. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that James Walter Nicholls died between 22/10 and 6/11/1914, and that his mother Mrs Sarah Mattin was his legatee. On the 1911 census James Walter Nicholls had been aged 25, living with his mother Sarah Mattin and her husband Charles at 115 North Street, Stanground; James' occupation was listed as soldier, and his place of birth was given as Sheffield. That was likewise given as his place of birth on the 1891 census, when he was living with Sarah and Charles Mattins at 17 Pipe Lane, Peterborough. His birth was registered in Sheffield in 1886 as "James Walter Nichols").