Name
Herbert Charles Wicks
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/07/1917
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
265183
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 54 and 56.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, St Mary's Parish Church Memorial, Watford, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Son of George Henry William and Sarah (nee GASCOIGNE) WICKS of Watford; husband of Gertrude Winifred EVANS (formerly WICKS, nee KIFF) of Watford.
His parents married 12 March 1892 at St Peter’s, Bushey Heath, Herts. George died 1940 in Watford aged 67, and was buried 22 November in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Sarah died 1964 in the Middx South district aged 88.
Herbert was born 1893 in Watford, and baptised 24 April 1901 at St Mary’s, Watford. He married 1913 in the Watford district; they had one child. He resided in Watford. Gertrude remarried 1919 in the Watford district to Henry A EVANS, and died 1986 in the Watford district aged 90.
On the 1901 Census, aged 7 he lived in Watford, with his parents and two siblings. On the 1911 Census, a printer’s labourer aged 17, he still lived in Watford, with his parents and four siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford: a printer aged 18 of Watford, and was formerly Private 265183 Bedfordshire (T.F.) Regiment.
He was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914 Star medals, his qualifying date being 6 November 1914, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Herbert’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two Bombing. Has a entry in the National Roll of the Great War. Recorded as WICKS E in the Borough Roll of Honour.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
