Charles Tempest-Hicks MC plaque St Mary Monken Hadley

Charles Edward Henry Tempest-Hicks MC (18 May 1888 – 9 August 1918) was a British Army officer in the

16th The Queen's Lancers The 16th The Queen's Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, first raised in 1759. It saw service for two centuries, before being amalgamated with the 5th Royal Irish Lancers to form the 16th/5th Lancers in 1922. History Early war ...

. Tempest-Hicks was the son of Brigadier-General

Henry Tempest Hicks Brigadier-General Henry Tempest Hicks (25 November 1852 – 10 November 1922) was a British Army officer who served in the South African War and was mentioned in despatches three times and subsequently made a Companion of the Order of the Bath. ...

of Monken Hadley who served with distinction in the

South African War The Second Boer War ( af, Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the Sout ...

.Wills, Walter H. (Ed.) (1907)
The Anglo-African Who's Who and Biographical Sketchbook, 1907
', p. 175. Charles Tempest-Hicks died in action at Warvillers during the First World War and is buried at the

Longueau British Cemetery Longueau British Cemetery is a First World War cemetery of Commonwealth soldiers in France, located to the east of Longueau, a suburb south-east of Amiens, Somme, France. The cemetery was begun in April 1918 and contains 204 burials, 14 of which ...

in Somme. A memorial to him by William Hamo Thornycroft exists inside St Mary's church, Monken Hadley. He was

mentioned in dispatches To be mentioned in dispatches (or despatches, MiD) describes a member of the armed forces whose name appears in an official report written by a superior officer and sent to the high command, in which their gallant or meritorious action in the face ...

and awarded the Military Cross and

French Croix de Guerre The ''Croix de Guerre'' (, ''Cross of War'') is a military decoration of France. It was first created in 1915 and consists of a square-cross medal on two crossed swords, hanging from a ribbon with various degree pins. The decoration was first aw ...

. He was educated at Ludgrove School and then

Harrow School (The Faithful Dispensation of the Gifts of God) , established = (Royal Charter) , closed = , type = Public schoolIndependent schoolBoarding school , religion = Church of E ...

and Sandhurst, the latter for whom he played cricket.'' Wisden Cricketer's Almanack'', "Obituaries during the war, 1918"

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*http://www.greatwarci.net/honour/jersey/database/tempest-hicks-ceh-longueau.htm British Army personnel of World War I Recipients of the Military Cross Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France) 16th The Queen's Lancers officers 1888 births 1918 deaths People from Monken Hadley People educated at Harrow School British military personnel killed in World War I Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst Burials at Longueau British Cemetery People educated at Ludgrove School {{British-Army-bio-stub

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