This name is on the St Mark's War Memorial, Kennington Oval, London SE11
(Charles Thomas Wicks)
(Wicks, Charles Thomas)
Service no 73676
Serjeant, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), 56th Battalion
Died age 22 on 6 November 1918
Son of Mr. and Mrs. John Wicks, of 54, Claylands Rd., South Lambeth, London.
Remembered at Valenciennes (St. Roch) Communal Cemetery, Nord, France and at St Mark's Church, London SE11
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Charles Thomas Wicks, then 16, was a telegraph messenger. He lived with his family in 6 rooms at 36 Claylands Road. His father, John Wicks, 47, was a hotel porter, born in Waterloo, and his mother, Eliza Mary Wicks, 45, was born in Camden Town. There were 5 children:
John George Wicks, 19, a hotel porter, born in Westminster
Elita Lylia Wicks, 18, an upholsterer, born in Westminster
Charles Thomas Wicks, 16, cited on the war memorial, born in Westminster
Caroline Cordelia Wicks, 9, born in Newington
Maud Winifred Wicks, 3, born in Newington