Roll of Honour

Roll of Honour

known 15th March 1916

NICHOLSON, G. C. N., Clare, Royal Flying Corps, Captain. George Crosfield Norris Nicholson, who was killed on 11 March, 1916, while flying in England, was born in November, 1884, the only son of Sir C. N. Nicholson, Bt., M.P., and educated at Eton and Clare, which he entered in 1904. In 1907 he was appointed assistant private secretary to Mr E. Robertson, Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, and in the following year went to the War Office as a private secretary to Colonel Seely, then Under-Secretary for War. He became principal private secretary to Colonel Seely on his appointment as Secretary for War in 1912. His death is a serious loss, not only to the Royal Flying Cops, but to the whole future of flying in England. Initiated early into public life, Captain Nicholson had already been a candidate for the House of Commons, and was regarded as one of the men who would have done most after the war to develop and explain the new service. He took up flying at the outbreak of war, rapidly became a proficient pilot, and had done much to inspire his political and official friends with his own enthusiasm.

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  • Born 1885

    Died 1916

    British Army Captain Royal Flying Corps

    Air Force (RAF/RFC) Captain Royal Flying Corps