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Military service
Service number:
B/36806
Age:
24
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
July 31, 1918
Hepburn, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
September 12, 1939
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
August 19, 1942
Dieppe, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 24. Column 2.
Additional information
Son of Dick and Nettie Nickel. Husband of Marguerite Nickel of Hamilton, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Herbert Rubin Nickel
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Brookwood Memorial
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Brookwood Memorial
Private Herbert Rubin Nickel was one of 7 members of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, who went missing at Dieppe on August 19, 1942 and were subsequently presumed dead, who are commemorated on this Panel at the Brookwood Memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom. -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c. 1942. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Herbert Rubin Nickel
Digital gallery of
Private Herbert Rubin Nickel
Digital gallery of
Private Herbert Rubin Nickel
Digital gallery of
Private Herbert Rubin Nickel
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 102 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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