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Ernest Hicks


               Ancestry site, Military records,
               Bombardier Ernest Hicks, born and enlisted in Redditch, Service No 830398, Royal Horse
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               Artillery and Royal Field Artillery, Territorial Force,  , killed in action, 12  August 1917,
               Western European Theatre.  Buried in Mendinghem Military Cemetery, Grave: IV. B. 40,
               Belgium.























                               Mendinghem Military Cemetery – source:- http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-
                                cemetery/cemetery/50500/MENDINGHEM%20MILITARY%20CEMETERY

               Remembered on St John the Baptist war memorial, Feckenham.

               (On the 1911 census Ernest, aged 28, lived with his wife Catherine and they were boarding at 6 St George’s
               Road, Redditch.)

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               The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 15
               September 1917

               Died of Wounds
               (830398) Bombardier E. Hicks - R.F.A. from Redditch
               Acknowledgements: www.bromsgrovebmsgh.co.uk - Martin Stephens who digitised the Bromsgrove, Droitwich
               and Redditch Messenger

               He is remembered World War 1 – Feckenham at:-
               http://feckenhamww1.org.uk/2016/07/27/ernest-hicks/


















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