He was educated at Bedford Modern School and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich,[5][6] being commissioned as a second lieutenant on 16 March 1893.

[7] During World War I, then Major Nutt was the Officer Commanding 52nd Battery, Royal Field Artillery.

His battery by the end of the day achieved the highest expenditure of ammunition in the whole division, at 183 rounds per gun, a remarkable feet of resupply'.

[8] In his book, 'Challenge of Battle:the real story of the British Army in 1914', Adrian Gilbert states that 'A suggestion that the battery should retire was categorically rebuffed'.

[2] Nutt invented his artillery range as a prisoner of war '..whose whirring and complicated machinery reproduced exactly the result of the fire orders given in the form of tiny puffs of cigarette smoke or shrapnel air-bursts of cotton wool let down on strings'.