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Lance Corporal WALTER MANNING HICKS

Service Number: 470312
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Canadian Infantry

25th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 16 August 1918

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FOUQUESCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY

II. G. 9.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Son of Porter and Susan Hicks, of Liverpool, Nova Scotia.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS YOUNG LIFE IN FREEDOM'S CAUSE
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Buried or commemorated at

FOUQUESCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 376
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