Name
Mark Hickman
10/08/1884
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/10/1914
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
6690
9th (Queen’s Royal ) Lancers
"A" Squadron
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 1
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
South Mymms Memorial, Canterbury 9th Queen’s Royal Lancers War Memorial
Pre War
Mark HICKMAN Jr. was born in South Mimms, Hertfordshire, on 10th August 1884, son of Mark Hickman a Metropolitan Police Constable and Harriet Hickman (nee Bone). One of their eleven children.
His parents married on 28th July 1868, at Christ Church, Cosway Street, Marylebone, Westminster, London.
Mark Jr. was Baptised in the Parish Church South Mimms on 7th December 1884.
1891 Census records Mark Jr. aged 6, living with his parents, three brothers, William (16), George (10), Frank (4), and two sister’s Fanny (13) and Clare (8), in South Mimms, Herts.
His father retired from the Metropolitan Police on 16th November 1891.
1901 Census records Mark Jr. as single, aged 17, and a Domestic Footman for Thomas Milvain and his family a Barrister at Law, living at 17 Rutland Gate, London.
He enlisted at Hounslow, Middx, in the Lancers, the exact date is not known.
1911 Census records Mark Jr. as Single, aged 26, a Private in the 21st Empress of India’s Lancers Stationed at Abbassia Barracks, Cairo, Egypt.
His mother Harriet died in July 1918, in Barnet, she was buried on 7th August 1918, in St Giles’s Churchyard, South Mimms, Herts, aged 78.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of war Mark Jr. was serving with “A” Squadron, 9th (Queen’s Royal) Lancers, stationed at Tidworth Barracks in Wiltshire. The Lancers were mobilized for war and arrived at Boulogne, France on the 16th August 1914, Mark Jr. joined them there on the 27th August 1914.
He died on 28th October 1914, just two months later of wounds received in action, possible at the First Battle of La Bassee (First Battle of La Bassee 10th October – 2nd November1914). He has no known grave; he is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial in France to the missing. Panel 1.
Additional Information
His effects of £27-08s-11d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £5 went to his father Mark Hickman Snr.
We believe Mark Jr. was wounded in action at the First Battle of Le Bassee and taken a prisoner of war (POW) and died while a prisoner. A Red Cross POW card records a 6690 Lance Corporal Mark Hickman of the 9th Lancers was taken a POW at Le Bassee and died on 28th October 1914, his next of kin is recorded as Mrs. Clara Gerkin, of 80 Ivy Road, Cricklewood, London, N. E. Card Ref: G P 765. We believe her to be his sister.
His Red Cross POW Card is on-line at Find my Past UK. www.findmypast.co.uk
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Brian Lodge
