Wednesday, 31 August 2016

10 and 11 July 1916:
Nilen- being Frank Percy Nilen, one of the two other officers commissioned into KOYLI at the same time as Louis, is 'warned for France'. No classes on 11 July.

War Office Records show that Nilen survived the war, but was captured and held as a prisoner of sarin May 1918, being repatriated in December 1918 following the end of the war.  He died in Salisbury in 1974 aged 80.

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