Source: Via post at 18th Battalion Facebook Group by Allan Millar.
Family Search: When Private Bertrand Hugh Nicholls was born on 14 November 1898, in Ypsilanti, Stutsman, North Dakota, United States, his father, Fred Nicholls, was 32 and his mother, Arminia Burke, was 30. He married Laura Malvina Lien on 30 March 1921, in Jamestown, Stutsman, North Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He immigrated to Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1919 and lived in Stutsman, North Dakota, United States in 1935 and Newman Lake, Spokane, Washington, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1917. In 1917, at the age of 19, his occupation is listed as farmer in Ypsilanti, Stutsman, North Dakota, United States. He died on 13 September 1959, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Fairmount Memorial Park, Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 