HICKS, Hugh Frederick (1893- 1987)
HICKS, Hugh Frederick (1893- 1987)
Hugh Hicks, born 30 September 1893, was the only son and middle child, of Charles Dick Hicks, a wine and spirit merchant in Flinders Lane, Melbourne, and Henrietta nee Williams. He was born at Mount Macedon, Victoria. He attended Melbourne Grammar School from 1905 to 1907 before boarding at Geelong College from 1908 to 1909.
From school he worked as a station overseer. He enlisted (No 5086) in the AIF on 16 November 1914, listing his widowed mother as next of kin at her South Yarra address. He embarked on HMAT A51 Chilka on 2 February 1915 for Egypt and Gallipoli. He served with 3rd Light Horse Brigade Train (12th ASC) and by 1916 with the 3rd and 2 Anzac Signal Squadron as a sapper and then driver, through the campaigns in Palestine. He was due for leave to Port Said in September 1918, when he was accidentally wounded in the right foot while cleaning a .32 calibre Etienne Acier revolver, which he had been using the previous day to shoot the numerous snakes surrounding their camp. Hugh Hicks returned to Australia on HMT Berrima on 15 January 1919.
In 1926, he married Ann O’Brien in Corowa, New South Wales and the couple had 3 children. He died on 23 July 1987 at Dandenong, Victoria, aged 93, and was buried at Springvale Botanical Cemetery.
Hugh Hicks, born 30 September 1893, was the only son and middle child, of Charles Dick Hicks, a wine and spirit merchant in Flinders Lane, Melbourne, and Henrietta nee Williams. He was born at Mount Macedon, Victoria. He attended Melbourne Grammar School from 1905 to 1907 before boarding at Geelong College from 1908 to 1909.
From school he worked as a station overseer. He enlisted (No 5086) in the AIF on 16 November 1914, listing his widowed mother as next of kin at her South Yarra address. He embarked on HMAT A51 Chilka on 2 February 1915 for Egypt and Gallipoli. He served with 3rd Light Horse Brigade Train (12th ASC) and by 1916 with the 3rd and 2 Anzac Signal Squadron as a sapper and then driver, through the campaigns in Palestine. He was due for leave to Port Said in September 1918, when he was accidentally wounded in the right foot while cleaning a .32 calibre Etienne Acier revolver, which he had been using the previous day to shoot the numerous snakes surrounding their camp. Hugh Hicks returned to Australia on HMT Berrima on 15 January 1919.
In 1926, he married Ann O’Brien in Corowa, New South Wales and the couple had 3 children. He died on 23 July 1987 at Dandenong, Victoria, aged 93, and was buried at Springvale Botanical Cemetery.
Source
Based on an edited extract from Geelong Collegians at the Great War compiled by James Affleck. p 213 (citing Pegasus; National Archives).