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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 276

(x) British War Medal 1914-20 (31195 Spr. A. Wicks. N.Z.E.F.), good very fine

Alfred Wicks was born in Sydney, Australia, on 8 March 1877. Before the Great War, he lived with his partner, Minnie Ella Davis and worked as a Labourer for the Telegraph Department at Whanganui, New Zealand. They adopted a son, Allen Edward Wicks, who was born on 29 December 1909, and married at the Registrar's Office in Wellington on 30 June 1916.

A month later, Alfred attested at Trentham for the 16th Wireless Troop and embarked from 'The Bluff' for Basrah, arriving on 31 October. His service abroad would be somewhat brief; on 4 January 1917 he was invalided to India aboard the hospital ship Nevasa, suffering from a severe case of dysentery which his medical notes recorded as likely requiring a 12-month recovery period. He returned home to New Zealand on 24 April 1918 and was discharged a few weeks later.


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