Victor Rylands Nicholson (25 August 1892 – 11 April 1946) was a New Zealand

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er. He played one first-class match for

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in 1914/15. Nicholson was educated at the Otago Boys' High School and

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and worked as a

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at the Auckland Hospital. In 1928, he moved to England to work as a surgeon in Coventry, returning to New Zealand in 1945, where he worked as the superintendent of the Nurse Cavell Memorial Hospital in

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. On 11 April 1946, Nicholson was travelling as a passenger in a truck from Pahi to Maungaturoto when the truck crashed into a creek near Maungaturoto. Another passenger managed to free the driver, but could not rescue Nicholson, who drowned in the truck.

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