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HICK, Harold Crispin

Rank: 2nd Lieutenant (temp)

Year of death: 1916

Date of birth: QE Mar 1883

Date of death: 12.7.1916

Place of death: Killed in action

Service number:

Regiment: The King’s (Liverpool Regiment) 19th Battalion.

Medals:
Campaign Medals & Silver War Badge.
Family grave states “Killed in action” age 33.

Cemetery location: Dean Road Cemetery, Scarborough, H Border
Family grave (remembered with his brother Captain Pantland Hick, died 1915)

Where remembered?:
Buried in CWGC grave, Peronne Road Cemetery, Maricourt, France, I.B.I
Remembered on family grave in Dean Road Cemetery, Scarborough.

Biographical Information

Born in 1883 in Low Bebington, Cheshire. Parents, George (Ship Store Dealer) & Mary Hick. 1901 census, living at 3 Victoria Drive, Birkenhead with parents, Harold age 18 (Provision Merchant Apprentice) & brother Pantland age 19 (Medical Student). Age 33 at death.

Inscription

In memory of MARY/the beloved wife of/PANTLAND HICK/a loving and affectionate/wife and mother and a/true friend/born September 28 1810/died January 25 1881/also of the above PANTLAND HICK/born June 23 1803/who after a long and useful life entered into rest/April 25 1887/in loving memory of/ELIZABETH HICK/daughter of the above/who entered into rest 5th Jan 1917/aged 76/in loving memory of/Captn PANTLAND HICK RAMC/who died of fever April 1915/and of/Lieut HAROLD CRISPIN HICK/King’s Liverpools/killed in action July 1916/each aged 33 years/grandsons of PANTLAND HICK Senior. [other family members on this stone]