Percy HICKS

HICKS, Percy

Service Number: 924
Enlisted: 10 December 1914, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
Last Rank: Sergeant
Last Unit: 1st Field Company Engineers
Born: Bodmin, Cornwall, England, 29 April 1890
Home Town: Marrickville, Marrickville, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Carpenter
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World War 1 Service

10 Dec 1914: Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 924, 1st Field Company Engineers, Enlisted at Sydney, NSW
10 Apr 1915: Embarked Sapper, 924, 1st Field Company Engineers, HMAT Hororata, Sydney
10 Apr 1915: Involvement Sapper, 924, 1st Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Hororata embarkation_ship_number: A20 public_note: ''
22 May 1916: Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1st Field Company Engineers
21 Apr 1918: Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 1st Field Company Engineers
12 Aug 1918: Wounded AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 1st Field Company Engineers, Returned to duty the same day
3 Oct 1918: Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 1st Field Company Engineers
28 Sep 1919: Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 924, 1st Field Company Engineers, Discharged in London, unit demobilised

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

Address at the time of enlistment was 'Madeley', Park Road, Marrickville, NSW

Son of Maria Hicks of Castle Street, Bodmin, Cornwall, England

Apprenticed to C. Ham of Bodmin, Cornwall for six and a half years

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

During 1932c Percy married Ivy P. Hills in Inverall, NSW