Charles Tempest-Hicks

British Army officer

Charles Edward Henry Tempest-Hicks MC (18 May 1888^[1] – 9 August 1918^[2]) was a British Army officer in the 16th The Queen's Lancers.

Tempest-Hicks was the son of Brigadier-General Henry Tempest Hicks of Monken Hadley who served with distinction in the South African War.^[3] Charles Tempest-Hicks died in action at Warvillers during the First World War and is buried at the Longueau British Cemetery in Somme. A memorial to him by William Hamo Thornycroft exists inside St Mary's church, Monken Hadley.^[4] He was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the Military Cross and French Croix de Guerre.

He was educated at Ludgrove School^[5] and then Harrow School and Sandhurst, the latter for whom he played cricket.^[6]

References

^ UK, British Army Lists, 1882-1962
^ CHARLES EDWARD HENRY TEMPEST-HICKS. Every Man Remembered, Royal British Legion. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
^ Wills, Walter H. (Ed.) (1907) The Anglo-African Who's Who and Biographical Sketchbook, 1907, p. 175.
^ Monument to Charles Edward Henry Tempest-Hicks. Courtauld Institute of Art. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
^ Barber, Richard (2004). The Story of Ludgrove. Oxford: Guidon Publishing. p. 280. ISBN 0-9543617-2-5.
^ Wisden Cricketer's Almanack, "Obituaries during the war, 1918"