George Graham Hicking
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George Graham Hicking was born in 1893 and baptised in St Saviour’s Church Nottingham on 30th November of that year. He was the second son of Joseph William Hicking and Kate Florence Hicking, nee Cleaver, then of Lenton Road in Nottingham’s Park Estate. Joseph William had been born in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, Kate in Nottingham; they had married in 1887 in Nottingham. They were to have 3 daughters - Frieda Mary (b. 1890), Nora Florence (b. 1892) and Grace Joan (b. 1906) - and 3 sons: Harold Yeldersley (b. 1889), George Graham (b. 1893) and Francis Joseph (b. 1897). Apart from Francis (away at school in Scarborough), all are at home in Manor Park, Ruddington, on the night of the 1911 census: Joseph (50), now retired, Kate (50), Harold (22), lace manufacturer, George (17), articled clerk, Frieda (21) and Nora (19), no occupation given, and Grace (5), scholar. Also in the house, 2 housemaids and a cook.Aged 19, George Graham Hicking emigrated to Canada 9/5/1913 aboard Virginian which sailed from Liverpool to Montreal. At the outbreak of the war he returned to England and enlisted.
George Graham Hicking was sent out to the Dardanelles in September, 1915 and several months later invalided home with dysentery. He was killed in action on 1st July 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
His 19 year-old brother Second Lieutenant Francis Joseph Hicking was killed in action with 10th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment on the same day (1/7/1916). He is buried in Fricourt New Military Cemetery.Nottingham Evening Post 12th July 1916:“LIEUT. G. G. HICKING. “Lieut. George Graham Hicking, who was killed in action in France on July 1st, was the second son of Mr. J. W. and Mrs. Hicking, of Gerrards Cross, Bucks., and late of Ruddington, Notts. He was in his 23rd year, and was educated at Broadgate School, Nottingham, and Uppingham. When war was declared he was fruit farming in Canada, and immediately returned to England and joined the Public Schools Corps, and received his commission two months later. In September, 1915, he was sent out to the Dardanelles, and several months later invalided home with dysentery. His younger brother, Second-Lieut. Francis Joseph Hicking, was killed in France on the same day.” Article courtesy of Jim Grundy and his facebook pages Small Town Great War Hucknall 1914-1918Elder brother Harold Yeldersley Hicking was in Canada at the outbreak of war, having left the lace trade to take up fruit farming. He enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1916 and during action in France was awarded the Military Cross as well as being twice Mentioned in Dispatches. He left the service with the rank of Major and returned to live in England.This page has benn researched Alan Bates and Peter Gillings
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