Hicks, CH
(1876 - 1918)
Key Facts
DATE OF BIRTH:
3rd March 1876
YEARS ATTENDED THE COLLEGE:
1890 - 1892
HOME ADDRESS WHEN AT THE COLLEGE:
Great Holland Hall, Colchester
REGIMENT
8th Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) (Territorial Force)
FINAL RANK:
Lieutenant
DATE OF DEATH:
21st July 1918
AGE AT DEATH:
42
WHERE HE DIED (or was wounded)
Hazebrouck
LOCATION OF GRAVE OR MEMORIAL:
Borre British Cemetery. II F 9
Lieutenant Charles Hubert Hicks
Born on March 3rd 1876, Charles was the only boy amongst the three children born to Charles T. Hicks, of Great Holland Hall near Colchester in Essex, and his wife, Lilian. He was at Dulwich for two around two and a half years; having started in the summer of 1890 he then left at the end of 1892, while a member of the Classical Remove. By January 1902 he was fully qualified as a solicitor and took up practice at Gray’s Inn Square in Central London.
In September 1914, a month after the commencement of hostilities, Charles enlisted as a member of the Royal Defence Corps, being transferred to the Artists Rifles the following spring. In January 1916 he took up a commission with the 8th Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters, with whom he went over to the front for the first time in June 1916. Shortly afterwards he was badly wounded, as a result being invalided home to England for several months. By the start of 1917 he had returned to France, by now attached to a Labour Battalion, and that January was promoted to Lieutenant. In the early summer of 1918, by his own request, he was transferred back to a Battalion in which he would see front line action, but was killed just weeks later, on July 21st 1918, whilst serving near Hazebrouck.
