Private Charles Edwin HICKS.
Remembrance - The Yorkshire Regiment, First World War
Private Charles Edwin HICKS. 28420
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Private Charles Edwin HICKS.

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Private Charles Edwin HICKS. 28420.

6th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment. Son of Elizabeth Ann and the late William Hicks of Loftus. Husband of Mary Elizabeth. Killed 13 December 1916. Aged 33.
Born Loftus, Enlisted Stockton.
Commemorated Pier and Face 3 A and 3 D, THIEPVAL MEMORIAL.

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British War Medal and Victory Medal awarded to Private Hicks


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Memorial Plaque issued to the next of kin of Private Hicks

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Commemorative Scroll

Charles Edwin Hicks was the father of Freda, Gladys, Harold and Frank Hicks.
His younger brother, William Arthur Hicks, also served in the Yorkshire Regiment (the 4th Battalion) and was killed on 29 April 1915.
His sister, Alice May Hicks, served as a nurse in Alexandra during the war.

(Photo provided by his grand-daughter, Thelma Issa <samuel.issa@ntlworld.com>), - daughter of Frank Hicks.

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