Name
Basil Perrin Hicks
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/09/1915
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Princess Charlotte of Wales’ (Royal Berkshire) Regiment
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DUD CORNER CEMETERY, LOOS
VI. B. 19.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Memorial window in St Peter’s Church Memorial, Bushey Heath
Not on the Bushey memorials
Pre War
Basil Perrin Hicks was born on the 22nd October 1892 in Sheffield, the younger son of William Mitchinson Hicks, who was the founding Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Physics at Sheffield University in the early 1900s, and Ellen Hicks.
Wartime Service
After studying French in Paris, he returned to England at the outbreak of war, joined the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps and was gazetted second lieutenant Berkshire Regiment in September 1914. Promoted to first lieutenant in March 1915, he served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders and was killed in action at Hulluch on 25th September 1915, aged 22, while leading the scout section of his battalion in the first attack on Loos.
Additional Information
Recorded as the son of William Mitchinson Hicks, of Leamhurst, Ivy Park Rd., Sheffield. Born at Sheffield. Also see ‘Additional Information’ provided with kind permission of Bushey First World War Commemoration Project – Please visit www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk.
Acknowledgments
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild