Second Lieutenant William Charles Wicks

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Battalion : 4th attached 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Awards: M.C. (Military Cross)

2nd Lieut: 10th Battalion: London Gazette 26.9.1917, For gallantry and great pluck during a German raid on the British trenches near Plouvain, on 8.8.1917. He led three men against a hostile bombing party, nine in number, and the latter threw bombs and wounded his three men, thereupon 2nd Lieut Wicks and a Private rushed at the enemy, who took to flight. He killed two and wounded three with his revolver and the Private killed one. By this gallant and dashing act valuable identifications were obtained.:

Son of Frederick C. And Harriett A. Wicks, of Long Eaton, Derbyshire.

Killed in Action in a raid on the German Lines near the Arras-Vitry Railway, on night 16th or 17th September 1917, aged 20.

Buried/Commemorated : Browns Copse Cemetery, Roeux, France. Plot 5. Row E. Grave 5.