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Hicks, W S



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Wilfred Stanley Hicks

Private Wilfred Stanley Hicks
Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
28/09/1918

Canadian attestation Papers

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Record

 

Born in Guernsey. Son of Harry and Sarah Harris Hicks, of Guernsey, Channel Islands, latterly of Atlanta, GA, USA. Previously wounded. Enlisted at St. Johns, PQ. 19/04/1917.

Killed near Cambrai during the final few weeks of the war - the 'last 100 days', when Allies troops moved out of the trenches and across open countryside, aged 21 years.