Ansel Hamilton Nichols 282945 Private 219th Battalion, 85th Battalion Freeport, Digby Co., Nova Scotia March 21, 1898 March 13, 1916 Yarmouth, Nova Scotia Brazil Lake, Yarmouth Co., NS 17 5 feet, 8 inches Medium Blue Dark Brown Single Farmer Baptist Thomas Nichols (Father) Brazil Lake, Yarmouth Co., NS March 24, 1919 (Halifax, NS on demobilization) 21 June 25, 1931 (Age 33) Brazil Lake Cemetery, Yarmouth Co., NS Ansel Hamilton Nichols was the son of Thomas P. Nichols (1857-1928) and Annie Agusta (Prime) Nichols) of Brazil Lake, Yarmouth Co., NS. Ansel enlisted with the 219th Battalion at Yarmouth, NS. He embarked Halifax on the SS Olympic on October 12, 1916 and disembarked in Liverpool, England on October 18, 1916. He was transferred to the 85th Battalion on June 16, 1917, for service in France. He joined the unit in the field on July 7, 1917. On March 3, 1918, he transferred to the 4th Battalion, Canadian Machine Gun Corps. During his service he was hospitalized on a number of occasions, suffering from service related illness that included mumps and trench mouth. He returned to Canada on February 20, 1919, and was posted to the Casualty Company in Halifax. He was discharged on March 24, 1919. Private Nichols died of tuberculosis at Carleton, Yarmouth Co., NS. His death was attributed to his war service and from the first symptoms bronchitis due to exposure in a gas attack during service. First symptoms of tuberculosis was in March 2, 1919 probably when returning home from overseas (Death Certificate).