Charles Thomas Wicks

This name is on the St Mark's War Memorial, Kennington Oval, London SE11

C. T. Wicks

(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