Robert Elliott HICKS

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Service Number:	20261
Enlisted:	4 July 1917, Enlisted at Narrabri, NSW
Last Rank:	Sapper
Last Unit:	1st Field Company Engineers
Born:	Vancouver, Canada, 25 August 1894
Home Town:	Newtown (NSW), Inner West, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Sailor
Died:	Maclean, New South Wales, Australia, 1 February 1951, aged 56 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Maclean Cemetery, New South Wales Anglican area. Possibly unmarked
Memorials:

4 Jul 1917:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 20261, Field Company Engineers, Enlisted at Narrabri, NSW
21 Nov 1917:	Involvement Sapper, 20261, Field Company Engineers, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: ''
21 Nov 1917:	Embarked Sapper, 20261, Field Company Engineers, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne
22 Feb 1919:	Transferred AIF WW1, Sapper, 1st Field Company Engineers
15 Oct 1919:	Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 20261, 1st Field Company Engineers, Discharged at the 2nd Military District

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Son of Henry Richard Hicks and Ida May Hicks of Vancouver, Canada

Husband of Hilda Macquarie Hicks nee Tipping of Burra Cottages, Campbell Street, Newtown, NSW

Commenced return to Australia on 13 July 1919 aboard HT Persic disembarking on 2 September 1919

Medal: British War Medal