Name
Arthur Hicks
25 January 1885
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/06/1919
33
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Superintendent
North West Frontier Province Police
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DELHI MEMORIAL (INDIA GATE)
India
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Berkhamsted memorials
Pre War
Arthur Hicks was born on 25 January 1885 in St Pancras, Middlesex. the son of Hermann and Charlotte Hicks.
He was baptised on 31 January 1886 at St Paul's Church, St Pancras when they were living at 18 South West Villas and his father was working as a cattle salesman.
His father died in 1888, aged 33 and his mother remarried the following year to Charles Reeve. On the 1891 Census the family were living at 19 Southill Road, Islington where his stepfather was a licensed victualler and manager of a public house.
By 1901 he and siblings Dorothy, Marian and Herman had moved to Norfolk and were living with their paternal aunt Mary Ann Hicks at 123 Queens Road, Norwich. His mother, stepfather and half siblings had moved to The Green Man Inn in Shepreth, Cambridgeshire.
His widow Rebecca Barnett Hicks lived at Silverdale, North Road, Berkhamsted, Herts.
Wartime Service
He served as Police Superintendent of the North West Frontier Police and received the King 's Police Medal.
Arthur died from cholera at Peshawar, North Western Frontier, India (later Pakistan)on 6 June 1919 and is buried at Kohat Cemetery, India but his name is also commemorated on the Delhi Memorial (India Gate), India.
Additional Information
His widow obtained probate on 10 March 1921 in London with effects of £4509 7s 3d.
His mother and stepfather later emigrated to Canada.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
