Hero of Calais
Brigadier Claude Nicholson, whose gallantry in refusing to surrender Calais during the German advance was revealed recently by General Gough, was only 42 years of age. At 19 he was a captain serving with his regiment in France, where he remained until the Armistice of 1918. Brigadier Nicholson was gazetted 2nd lieutenant with the 16th Lancers in 1916, After the war he served with his regiment as adjutant of his battalion and then went to the War Office in 1930 as General Staff Officer (3). From 1932 to 1934 he commanded an officers’ training corps of cadets at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Then he was appointed G.S.O. (2) at the Staff College until 1937,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 56, 19 July 1940, Page 2
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118Hero of Calais New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 56, 19 July 1940, Page 2
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