Date of birth:

January 27th, 1898 (Moreton’s Harbour/Newfoundland, Canada)

Date of death:

February 27th, 1945 (Hochwald/North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

Buried on:

Canadian War Cemetery Groesbeek
Plot: XXI. Row: G. Grave: 2.

Service number:

M/44899

Nationality:

Canadian

Trooper
South Alberta Regiment, R.C.A.C.
29th Armd. Reconnaissance Regt.

27 February 1945 was a fateful day for the South Alberta Regiment, with their A Squadron decimated by the well placed German defences, losing two tank troops totalling 8 Shermans, four killed plus others wounded and captured by the enemy. With their attack broken, air strikes were called in the next day.
Trooper Eric Nichols had been a member of a tank crew in B Squadron but in December 1944 switched over to driving the squadron ambulance vehicle. Nichols lost one of his helpers on 27 February 45 when fragments from a German mortar bomb which landed near his halftrack killed Trooper John Bartlett, who was riding with him.
This was a particularly tragic loss because Bartlett, a farm labourer from Edmonton, was, at 47 years of age, too old for combat and had only been retained in the Regiment because he served as a batman to the officers and a waiter in their mess. John Bartlett had nothing else to do that day so he volunteered to go out in the ambulance.

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