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Military service
Service number:
45517
Age:
29
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade
Division:
1st Motor Gun Bde.
Birth:
December 9, 1888
Death:
March 24, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
1st Son of Sarah Elizabeth Hicks, of "Pironne," Cumnor, Oxford, England, and the late Joseph Hicks.
Digital gallery of Corporal Edward William Hicks
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Newspaper Clipping
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Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Vimy Memorial
Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Corporal Edward William Hicks
Digital gallery of
Corporal Edward William Hicks
Digital gallery of
Corporal Edward William Hicks
Digital gallery of
Corporal Edward William Hicks
Digital gallery of
Corporal Edward William Hicks
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 428 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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