HICKS, Frederick Thomas
(Service number 2/608)
| First Rank | Driver | Last Rank | Sergeant |
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Birth
| Date | 18/05/1888 | Place of Birth | Waimate |
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Enlistment Information
| Date | 15 Aug 1914-31 Dec 1915 | Age | |
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| Address at Enlistment | W Andrew, Otahune | ||
| Occupation | Farm Hand | ||
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| Marital Status | single | ||
| Next of Kin | G Hcks (father), Pams (Pains) Town Road, Waimate | ||
Military Service
| Served with | NZ Armed Forces | Served in | Army |
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Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | Main Body | ||
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| Unit, Squadron, or Ship | New Zealand Field Artillery | ||
| Date | 16 October 1914 | ||
| Transport | HMNZT 7, 10 Limerick, Arawa | ||
| Embarked From | Wellington, New Zealand | Destination | Suez, Egypt |
| Other Units Served With | 10th Battery, 4th Brigade, NZ Field Artillery | ||
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| Last Unit Served With | NZ Field Artillery | ||
Military Awards
| Campaigns | Egyptian, Balkans (Gallipoli), Egyptian Expeditionary Force, Western Europe | ||
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Award Circumstances and Date
For courage and devotion to duty covering period 6/26th September at Longueval and beyond Delville Woo, particularly on 25 September, on which date, when a shell burst at the door of the gun pit wounding some of his detachment he kept the gun in action and supervised the bandaging of the wounded and sending them away. The work of this NCO is always good, and he sets a fine example to all his men when conditions of shelling, etc, are bad. (London Gazette, 9 December 1916, p12058)
Prisoner of War Information
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Death
| Date | 14 February 1923 | Age | 35 |
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| Place of Death | Cashmere Sanitorium, Chch | ||
| Cause | Result of war injuries | ||
| Memorial or Cemetery | |||
| New Zealand Memorials | On Memorial wall, Timaru | ||
Biographical Notes
Frederick Hicks, born in 1887, was the twelfth and youngest son of Gideon and Caroline Hicks, Painstown Road, Waimate. He helped his father on their farm at Deep Creek as a boy, and later worked on other farms in the area. Fred was a good horseman and sometime participated in trotting races. He joined the Main Body of the New Zealand Army at the outbreak of war, serving in Gallipoli and then France with distinction. Hicks served with the 10th Battery, 4th Brigade of the NZ Fierld Artillery while on active service at the Somme in 1916. He ultimately suffered severe head wounds in France which saw him invalided home in 1917. Afterwards he lived in Waimate for a short time before being admitted to the Sanatorium in Cashmere in Christchurch, where he died in 1923 as a result of his war injuries. He is buried beside his parents in the Waimate Cemetery.
Sources
Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database; Military Service reocrds; SCRoll submissions by R Green, 28 November 2014 and 28 April 2015
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Liz Shea (SC branch NZSG); Tony Rippin (South Canterbury Museum); David Batchelor, South Canterbury Museum
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