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James Edward Hosking Nicholson

Australia Military Forces

HERITAGE No: 143

BIRTH: 23 December 1883
Centre St Redfern, NSW
DEATH: 15 September 1964 Concord Repatriation Hospital, Concord, NSW
DEATH: 15 September 1964
Concord Repatriation Hospital, Concord, NSW

OCCUPATION: Plumber, 1913

RESIDENCE: Hordern Pde Croydon, NSW, 1913

GAME HISTORY

  • Eastern Suburbs JRU 1908
  • Eastern Suburbs RU 1909, 1910, 1911
  • Possibles RU v Probables RU Second Grade 1911
  • Combined Second Grade RU v New England RU 1911
  • Wests RU 1912
  • Wests RU v Maitland RU Representative team 1912
  • Metropolis RU v Combined City and Suburban RU (Selected but DNP) 1912
  • South Sydney RU 1913
  • South Sydney RU General Committee 1913
  • Metropolis RU v NZ Maoris RU 1913
  • Wests RL First Grade 1914
  • Eastern Suburbs RL 1915

James

Wests player #143 was listed as J. Nicholson. He has an interesting history as within five seasons he played for five clubs in the two rugby codes. He was a prominent player and represented in rugby union in 1911 and 1913.

With this information readily available, it would be reasonable to assume that he would be easy to identify. However, with every notation in newspapers of the time, he was only referred to as J. Nicholson or Nicholson.

There are some key pieces of information which might give a clue to his identity. On several occasions reference was made to his diminutive size with one report describing him as a “midget.”

He played much of his football in the Eastern Suburbs and South Sydney districts but played in the Western Suburbs in 1912 and 1914.

Rugby League researcher Tony McCarron reviewed every J. Nicholson that he could find in NSW. With the parameters outlined above and the use of facial recognition tools it has been concluded to a high level of satisfaction that the player in question was James Edward Hosking Nicholson.

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