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Yarmouth Connections
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Gordon Arnold Nickerson
Gordon Arnold Nickerson
469266
Corporal
64th Battalion
January 10, 1889
Pleasant Lake, Yarmouth Co., NS
August 27, 1915
Sussex NB
36
5 feet, 11½ inches
Fair
Brown
Brown
Married
Painter
Methodist
Margaret Nickerson (Wife) Lake Side, Yarmouth Co., NS
February 14. 1919
May 8, 1958
Gordon Nickerson was the son of Sumner Troupe Nickerson (1864–1935) and Caroline Augusta (Perry)
Nickerson (1864-1924). Gordon married Margaret Doane on January 11, 1915
Gordon Nickerson enlisted with the 64th Battalion/ He arrived in England on April 9, 1916 and was
transferred to the 21st Battalion and taken on strength on July 6, 1916. He embarked for France on July
13, 1916 and joined the unit in the field on July 14, 1916.
Suffering from shell shock, he was hospitalized in September, 1916. In May 31, 1917 he was transferred to
the 6th Reserve Battalion and on July 11, 1918 to the 17th Reserve Battalion at Bramshott. On January
1919 he returned to Canada and was discharged on February 14, 1919.
Corporal Nickerson also served during WWII as an instructors at the Yarmouth Training Centre (Camp 60).
Gordon and Margaret (Doane) Nickerson