Malcolm McNicoll was one of many young men who died in France in World War I. Our family inherited the memoirs and scrap books dedicated to his memory when the last of his family died. The McNicolls were friends of our family, and my uncle was named after Malcolm.
Before the war he was a technical representative for my Great-uncle's engineering company Hardy Patent Pick Co. Ltd., which made tools for the mining industry. He was stationed in Ekaterinoslaw, now Dnepropetrovsk, and was a rep visiting the various mines in the area. He left a journal from this period until the outbreak of the war, when he returned to England via Scandinavia.
For information, read his diary from his time in pre-WWI Russia:
http://www.offa.demon.co.uk/dmac.htm
for other documents, see:
http://www.offa.demon.co.uk/dmac1.htm
for his family tree, see
http://www.offa.demon.co.uk/mcnicoll/genstart.htm
or return to the McNicoll home page:
http://www.offa.demon.co.uk/mcnicoll.htm