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Arthur George Hiscox

Surname

Christian Names

Service Number

Rank

Regiment

Hiscox

Arthur George

1636

Pte

2/4 Wilts

Born

Age

Enlisted at

Address

Trowbridge

23

Chippenham

Melksham

Date of Death

Where killed

Cause of Death

30/07/1916

Mosul Prisoner of War camp, Iraq

 

Cemetery

Plot

Country

Basra Memorial

Panel 30 and 64

Iraq

Next of Kin

Next of kin address

Town

James and Alice Hiscock (parents) Avondale Road Melksham

Notes

Attached to the Ox & Bucks Light Infantry - died whilst a Prisoner of war at Mosul and buried in the Mosul Prisoner of War cemetery.

Casualty list in the Wilts Times 1 July 1916 listed:

Prisoner of war at Kut
Hiscox 1636 AG Pte Wiltshire Regiment

Wilts Times 1 July 1916

In ever loving memory of Pte Arthur George Hiscox 2/4 Wiltshire Regiment attached to Oxford and Bucks who died a prisoner of war in Turkey on 30 July 1916

Out in that foreign field
Lies one we all love well;
We could not hold his dying hand,
We could not say farewell.
Until the day breaks

From his loving Mother and Dad, Sisters and Brothers.

Wilts Times 26 July 1917

Memorials Commemorated on:

Chippenham Town War Memorial

St Paul’s Church

St Andrew’s Church

Yes

Liberal Club

Hardenhuish Church

Causeway Methodist Church
Pewsham Street
Boys School
Congregation Church

Basra Memorial photo courtesy of Bob Pike

Last updated - 08/09/2017

 

 


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