Lindsay Knight FULL NAME - Harold Garwood Nicholls BORN - 19 November 1897 in Wellington DIED - 10 August 1977 in Whakatane POSITION - Second five-eighth LAST SCHOOL - Petone West School RUGBY CLUB (First made All Blacks from) - Petone PROVINCE - Wellington
FULL NAME - Harold Garwood Nicholls FORENAME(S) - Harold Garwood SURNAME - Nicholls WAR - World War I, 1914-1918 SERIAL NO. - 19035 FIRST KNOWN RANK - Rifleman OCCUPATION BEFORE ENLISTMENT - Somes Island guard NEXT OF KIN - Mrs S. Nicholls (mother), 18 Petone Avenue, Petone, Wellington, New Zealand BODY ON EMBARKATION - New Zealand Rifle Brigade EMBARKATION UNIT - 6th Reinforcements 4th Battalion, H Company EMBARKATION DATE - 29 July 1916 PLACE OF EMBARKATION - Wellington, New Zealand TRANSPORT - HMNZT 59 HMNZT 60 VESSEL - Waitemata or Ulimaroa DESTINATION - Devonport, England NOMINAL ROLL NUMBER - 37 PAGE ON NOMINAL ROLL - 35 Doc's service record is on the Archives but not digitalised yet !!
Matches against New South Wales in the 1920s were de facto matches against Australia, as serious Rugby in the other States had ceased during the war and didn't re-start until late in the decade. The Australian Rugby Union retrospectively awards international caps to the players involved, as did the Four Home Unions and France, but New Zealand didn't. Gareth
