South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 11 April 1942

Trained In Canada.

Pilot-Officer Stanley Nicholson, of Chardmore, Bolton Road, is home on leave after completing many, months’ intensive and interesting training in Canada and the United States.

He has returned looking very fit and full of accounts of the overwhelming hospitality extended to the R.A.F. by the Canadians and Americans.

His training took him into several States, and he gained a wide and varied knowledge of the people. Hundreds of snapshots of scenes and incidents he has taken will re-live for him in future years what must have been a remarkable experience. He was called upon to speak for England and her cause on many occasions and he appears to have risen this duty in an admirable manner. He is glad to be back in England, despite his happy and exciting times among our cousins across the sea, and quite eager to get on with the job for which he is trained.

P.O. Nicholson is well known and popular in the district, and many of his old nals of Mexborough Secondary School will be delighted to hear of his R.A.F. career to date. He was in the Customs and Excise Office at Harwich before the war.

The photograph is a reproduction of one published in the American New Smyrna Beach Observer when he was asked by, this news-Paper to record his “worst impression.” and to which he replied “I haven’t noticed the worst yet.”